Bill That Would Decriminalize Marijuana Was Approved By House Of Representatives

The U.S. House of Representatives is in favor of progression. On Friday, they approved a bill that would decriminalize marijuana, and that’s something we should all be happy about.

Now, advocates and lawmakers are urging the Senate to do the same.

The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, which is also known as the MORE Act, was passed in the House on Friday in a 220-204 vote.

Of the 220 in favor, only three came from Republican lawmakers, however, that figure doesn’t accurately represent how the issue has grown to garner support from both major parties in the U.S, Complex reported.

A poll from last year suggested that the majority of both Republicans and Democrats are in favor of legalization at the National level.

Morgan Fox, the political director for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), told news that marijuana is “objectively safer” than alcohol and has urged those in the Senate to follow suit to move towards the decriminalization of marijuana.

“This vote is a clear indicator that Congress is finally listening to the vast majority of voters who are sick and tired of our failed marijuana criminalization policies and the damage they continue to inflict in communities across the nation every day,” Fox said. “It is long overdue that we stop punishing adults for using a substance that is objectively safer than alcohol, and that we work to address the disparate negative impacts that prohibition has inflicted on our most vulnerable individuals and marginalized communities for nearly a century.”

The MORE Act would remove marijuana from the list of scheduled substances, and begin a process for the expungement of convictions, and a lot more.