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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York is embarrassed by her fellow Democrats who recently legalized marijuana from the party’s official platform, the congresswoman said in an interview Thursday.
The progressive lawmaker made his emotions transparent in an interview on Capitol Hill this week after Delegates from the Democratic National Committee voted against adding the legal pot to their policy.
“It’s embarrassing. It’s disgraceful that it’s not on the Democratic platform,” Ocasio-Cortez told The News Station, which covers the marijuana industry, according to the medium.
“The Democratic platform on this factor is more conservative than in 2016,” Ocasio-Cortez said, the page reported online.
DNC delegates voted 105-60 on Monday to rule out an amendment to the platform that would have boosted national legalization of marijuana, which is prohibited by the federal government but is legal in many states.
Instead of pushing to absolutely end the ban, the current draft language of the DNC platform calls on the government to decriminate marijuana and automatically erase past convictions, a policy more consistent with that of Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden than with Ocasio-Cortez.
“There is an ideological diversity in the component, and right now the sensible maximum of the price ticket is in the maximum conservative component of the component,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “That’s the reality. And it’s up to us to push.”
“On this issue, it’s not even about being futuristic or the next generation,” he added, according to The News Station. “It’s a concept that’s the time to come.”
Thirty-three states have legalized medical use of marijuana, adding 11 where adults can also use marijuana for recreational purposes. Of these, they have systems in a position to regulate, tax and sell marijuana in retail.
According to a Pew Research Center study published last year, about two-thirds of marijuana use in Americans deserves to be legalized at the federal level.