Massachusetts became the first state east of Colorado to start selling recreational pot on Tuesday, and Rep. Joe Kennedy III is calling on the nation to end its “prohibition on marijuana.”

The Congressman wrote an op-ed for The Boston Globe’s “Stat” publication titled “It’s time to legalize marijuana at the federal level.”

He’s calling for the removal of pot from the Controlled Substances Act and for federal legalization.

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