On Labor Day in 2022, John Fetterman found himself in a room in Pittsburgh with President Biden. Fetterman, a Democrat who was then the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania and in the middle of his successful run for the U.S. Senate, had a simple message he wanted to share: Go big on legal weed. And how […]
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As He Exits Congress, Blumenauer Wants His Party to Embrace Pot Legalization
As a 23-year-old serving his first term in the Oregon state legislature, Representative Earl Blumenauer cosponsored the first bill in the country to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana. More than 50 years later, the congressman from Portland is preparing to retire after nearly three decades on Capitol Hill, and mounting a lonely campaign to persuade […]
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