The House Friday voted 220-204 along mostly party lines to pass a Democratic bill legalizing marijuana throughout the nation, but its future remains hazy given that most Republicans opposed it.
The bill would make marijuana legal on the federal level and help roll back the so-called war on drugs that has disproportionately targeted people of color.
“Whatever one’s views are on the use of marijuana for recreational or medicinal use, the policy of arrests, prosecution, and incarceration at the federal level has proven both unwise and unjust,” Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., a key sponsor of the bill, said Friday.
