https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-medical-pot-20141216-st...
Although the courts eventually had to shut down the Obama DOJ for continuing to prosecute in those states anyway.
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-medical-pot-201...
The votes are there when you aren't openly calling what you are doing "full legalization".
No, they prohibit prosecuting use consistent with state medical use laws; in both 2019 and 2020 the House voted to extend that to state-legal use generally, but the Senate didn’t go along. (The House, but not the Senate, also passed a decriminalization bill in 2020.)
They are perfectly willing to make pot legal, however, they prefer to avoid looking like they are doing so as long as possible.
Biden's open opposition is the bigger issue here. Lets not forget who was behind a lot of the drug war legislation.
>Biden was a major Democratic leader in spearheading America’s war on drugs during the 1980s and ’90s.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/25/18282870/j...
