Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced a bill on Tuesday which would end federal cannabis prohibition and reverse damage from the war on drugs.

“Our country’s drug laws are badly broken and need to be fixed,” Booker said in a statement. “They don’t make our communities any safer.”

The legislation would amend the Controlled Substance Act to remove the status of cannabis as a Schedule I drug, effectively decriminalizing it at the federal level. It would also give states incentives to legalize cannabis if their current laws have a disproportionate arrest rate for minority or low-income individuals.

If the attorney general and Bureau of Justice Assistance determines a state’s law are disproportionately penalizing, the state would not be eligible for federal funding for constructing or staffing jails. The bill would also take any withheld assets from penalized states to help create a fund which provides job training, youth programs, and community centers for communities most affected by adverse effects from the war on drugs.

“States have so far led the way in reforming our criminal justice system and it’s about time the federal government catches up and begins to assert leadership,” Booker added.

The legislation would be retroactive and require federal courts to throw out previous cannabis convictions. Individuals still serving time for cannabis crimes could petition for a shorter sentence.

Under the Trump administration’s hard stance on cannabis, Sen. Booker’s bill is unlikely to pass through the Republican-controlled congress. A similar 2015 bill from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) received no cosponsors and stalled in the Judiciary Committee.