From the ACLU, this is at Liberty.

I'm Molly Kaplan, your host.

The 2020 election was notable for a lot of reasons, but one winner really stood out, drug legalization.

Five states legalized either medicinal or adult use of marijuana. Oregon and D.C. went even further and decriminalized

or legalized hard drugs. And the momentum garnered from these cross-country wins helped push the

Morac through the House in recent weeks. If enacted,

this legislation would end the federal prohibition of marijuana. After decades of fighting to

undo the damage done by the war on drugs, could this be a tipping point? Joining me to discuss how

America's war on drugs failed is Cynthia Roseberry, deputy director of the ACLU's National Policy Advocacy Department.

Cynthia, thank you so much for joining us.

Oh, thank you so much. It's my pleasure.

Cynthia, I wanted to address the question I mentioned in the introduction about whether you think we've tipped the scale on dismantling the war on drugs.

And just for taking stock of where we are, as of this recording, people in five states in the

2020 election voted for marijuana legalization, either for adult use or medicinal.

And in the cases of Mississippi, South Dakota, Montana, and Arizona,

they voted for legalization in states that are typically conservative-leaning. More than 15 states

plus the District of Columbia have legalized adult use of marijuana. 36 states now have some

form of legal medicinal use. And the House,

as mentioned, just passed the Moore Act, which is the sweeping legislation that would decriminalize

marijuana and expunge some prior convictions. And there's more. I mean, the landscape seems

very, very positive in the field of decriminalization for marijuana.

How are you looking at this?

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