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AOC Supports Trump’s Marijuana Rescheduling Move, Even If It ‘Doesn’t Quite Make All The Wrongs Right’

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April 29, 2026

[#item_full_content] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) supports the Trump administration’s move to reschedule marijuana under federal law—but she also worries that enacting incremental cannabis reforms without equity and social justice measures will leave behind many people who have been harmed by criminalization. “This has always been an issue kind of at the heart of decriminalization,” the congresswoman AOC Supports Trump's Marijuana Rescheduling Move, Even If It 'Doesn't Quite Make All The Wrongs Right' Read More

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AOC Supports Trump’s Marijuana Rescheduling Move, Even If It ‘Doesn’t Quite Make All The Wrongs Right’

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