Kamala Harris, the Democratic senator from California and 2020 presidential contender, clarified her views on cannabis on this morning during a remarkably frank interview with the popular New York City radio show “The Breakfast Club.”

In a wide-ranging conversation that also touched on questions of racial inequality and criminal justice reform, Harris dismissed accusations that she opposes legalization, and then offered listeners a bit of a bombshell: Yep, she’s smoked.

Although Harris wrote about cannabis reform in her 2018 book, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey, this morning’s interview on New York’s Power 105.1 marked a turning point in her public support of legalization.

She now joins a handful of fellow vocally pro-legalization Democratic senators including Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand and Bernie Sanders, whose public statements are helping to establish cannabis as a marquee national issue in the lead up to the 2020 election.

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