Vice President Kamala Harris' selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, Marijuana Moment's Kyle Jaeger notes, means that "the ticket now consists of two candidates who support marijuana legalization"—a "historic first." Walz actually arrived at that position before Harris did. His record as a congressman from 2007 through 2018, a period when Harris was still laughing at the very idea of legalization, includes several votes in favor of marijuana reform, and he ran for governor in 2017 on a promise to "create a system of regulation and taxation for adult-use marijuana."
As governor, Walz signed a bill legalizing recreational marijuana. He also supported legislation authorizing supervised drug consumption facilities, eliminating legal barriers to needle exchange programs, and creating a Psychedelic Medicine Task Force.
