Dear Stoner: Which presidential candidate would you want to smoke a joint with the most?
Daryl
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Marijuana’s future in the United States remains a hot topic as Super Tuesday approaches. Formerly dismissed by virtually every presidential candidate, supporting pot legalization now seems a prerequisite for any
Democratic hopeful. The level of support varies, however, with some candidates preferring giving states the right to choose, while others are pledging to legalize marijuana through executive action if need be.
Remember the stoner kid in Dazed and Confused who swears that George Washington’s old lady, Martha, lit up a fat bowl for Georgie at the end of the day? Probably bullshit, but whatever: Washington definitely grew hemp before it was banned more than a century later. He had a lot of stress with that whole revolution thing, and it’s fun to imagine Washington, Franklin, Jefferson and other banknote heads passing around a joint while talking about their brave new world. Although colonial dirt weed certainly wasn’t as potent as the modern Presidential Kush, I can’t help but feel a little more stately when I get an eighth of this sticky hybrid and blaze one for the nation.
Keith Bacongo-Flickr edited by Toke of the Town. |
The legalization of recreational marijuana will be a huge issue on your 2016 ballot in California. It’s a presidential year, and pro-pot forces are expecting a larger-than-normal turnout at the polls. The Washington, D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project already made waves in recent days by announcing it would “begin raising funds to help place the measure on the November 2016 ballot.”
But the MPP wasn’t the first organization to eye the November, 2016 ballot in California, and it certainly won’t be the last.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry. |
You might have assumed that Gov. Rick Perry’s fumbling last attempt to score the 2012 Republican presidential nomination guaranteed we’d never see him on the national stage again.
But then Perry announced he wasn’t running for re-election as governor of the great state of Texas. Then he started traveling the country encouraging people and businesses to relocate to the famously business-friendly Texas. He spouted off soundbites of independence and defiance on the Affordable Care Act, and we began to wonder what he was up to. He went to Iowa — the state people only traditionally visit if they’re lost, there for the Iowa Workshop or running for president — and our suspicions grew. The Houston Press examines further.
ColorLines |
Mexico’s Drug War has claimed more than 50,000 lives in five years |
The Chronicle |
Newt Gingrich: “See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn’t change, only the morality … That’s why you get to go to jail and I don’t.” |
GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich does not support the legalization of medical marijuana, and in fact, would like to see the United States adopt a tougher policy against the use of cannabis and other substances, including the death penalty for some dealers.
Photo: Steve Elliott/Reality Catcher |
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson at Portland Hempstalk 2010 in September |
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, a likely 2012 Republican presidential candidate, is already known as a supporter of cannabis legalization, and has said he smoked pot during his youth. “I never exhaled,” he joked recently. But now Johnson has admitted publicly for the first time that he smoked marijuana more recently — from 2005 to 2008 — for medicinal purposes.
Photo: Steve Elliott/Reality Catcher |
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson at Portland Hempstalk 2010 in September |
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson could bring the issue of marijuana legalization into the 2012 Republican presidential primary if he decides to run.
Bernie Sanders isn’t coy about his desire to see marijuana legalized, but the Democratic presidential candidate’s plans for the plant will go much further than that if he’s elected to the White House in 2020.