Amazon is throwing its weight behind federal pot legalization.
The Jeff Bezos-owned e-commerce giant announced its support for a proposed bill to legalize marijuana across the US—and said that it will no longer disqualify people from working at the company in certain roles if they test positive for pot use.
Amazon’s public policy team will be “actively supporting” the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, which seeks to legalize marijuana at the federal level and expunge criminal records, Amazon’s consumer boss Dave Clark said Tuesday in a blog post.
The bill would also tax cannabis products and invest some of that money in communities hit hardest by the criminalization of marijuana. The bill was reintroduced in Congress on Friday.
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