Thursday, February 21, 2019

Where the 2020 presidential candidates stand on marijuana legalization

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If there's one thing that united Democrats and Republicans in the Reagan era (besides their unfortunate fixation with perms), it was their near universal hatred of weed. Everybody was a cop back then. Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate for president in 1984, called for another "War on Drugs" — all drugsRonald Reagan, for his part, believed that marijuana was "probably the most dangerous drug in the United States."

Fast forward to the 2020 election, when politicians have largely done an about-face, at least when it comes to weed. Politicians aren't just campaigning for medical marijuana, they're advocating for recreational marijuana to be legalized: explicitly, vocally, and on their campaign pages. Read more...

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