On March 10, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) was among a bipartisan group of senators that introduced a historic bill that would, for the first time, force the federal government to acknowledge that marijuana has some medical value. Booker, who has become one of the leading voices for criminal justice and drug policy reform in the US Senate, is also pushing the REDEEM Act, a bill that would, among other changes, allow nonviolent drug offenders to more easily seal their records and apply for welfare programs.
I sat down with Booker on the same day he introduced the medical marijuana bill to discuss some of his broader thoughts about the criminal justice system ā and why he sees reform in this area as being as urgent as the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
[For more of this story, written by German Lopez and Joe Posner, go to http://www.vox.com/2015/3/16/8...cory-booker-drug-war]
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