Cory Booker is making his efforts at marijuana legalization part of his freshly begun presidential campaign, the New Jersey senator said in a radio interview Friday as he made his White House bid official.

“ “It means changing our drug laws. Ending prohibition against marijuana.: ” — Cory Booker

Speaking to the Tom Joyner Morning Show, Booker included his marijuana policy in a pitch for what he called “radical empathy” in the U.S.