Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign is in the midst of a week focused on criminal justice and gun safety that could also spotlight an area in which his views are more conservative than the rest of the Democratic field: marijuana policy. Mr. Bloomberg supports decriminalization of low-level marijuana-possession offenses. But he hasn’t backed legalizing recreational or medical marijuana, a central part of the criminal-justice plans proposed by most other Democratic candidates that has been getting...

Source: Wall Street Journal December 04, 2019 15:11 UTC