The Senate will continue to legalize marijuana, regardless of Biden’s position.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is ready to use the weight of his office to legalize marijuana across the country. After New York decided earlier this week to legalize marijuana, Schumer said he was hopeful that President Joe Biden would finally come to terms with the issue. But whether that happens, “at some point we’re going to move forward, period,” the New York senator told Politico. Schumer, who first introduced a marijuana legalization bill in 2018, said he is working with Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Ron Wyden of Oregon on legislation.

Schumer has so far offered no details on what the legislation could include: “you will just have to wait,” he said, but he did describe it as a “comprehensive bill”. Once it was launched, Schumer promised to sit down with people who objected to the move to see how they could get on board. Schumer said he was “personally in favor of legalization” and said that “the bill we are going to present is in that direction.” Schumer shared the Politico interview on Twitter and said he was working “to end the federal ban on marijuana and repair the damage done by the war on drugs.”

Schumer appears to be optimistic that Biden’s thinking on the issue could develop, as more than 40 percent of Americans live in states that have approved the legislation. “I want to direct my arguments against him, as many other lawyers want,” Schumer said of Biden. For the majority leader, there is a good argument about how the state’s efforts to legalize marijuana went. “The legalization of states has worked remarkably well,” he said. “They were a great success. The parade of horrors never arose, and people were given more freedom. ”

Schumer said his thinking about the issue began to change when he spoke to “average people” in Denver about the issue and saw how people feel that legalization helps the state with extra tax revenue and has not hurt anyone. “People had the freedom to do what they wanted to do, as long as they didn’t hurt other people,” Schumer said. “That’s part of what America is all about.”

Under the Republican-controlled Senate, the matter never really got anywhere, but now lawmakers would be forced to make their views clear, which could put many people in an awkward position, as more than two-thirds of Americans now legalize dew support.