Ted Cruz won't block legal marijuana, takes a pass on pot banking (Video)

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, during a stop in Colorado, said that the legalization of recreational marijuana is a matter that "we should leave to the states," adding that he hasn't made up his mind about expanding banking services to marijuana businesses.

Cruz, a U.S. senator from Texas, visited Colorado over the weekend, emerging with all 34 of the state's delegates to the Republican National Convention. His success here boosts the chances that the party's July convention in Cleveland will be contested, with frontrunner Donald Trump not assured in advance of winning the nomination. Cruz is in second place in the delegate count.

Cruz was the only presidential candidate who addressed the Colorado Republican Party's state assembly in Colorado Springs on Saturday. Businessman Trump and Ohio Gov. Kohn Kasich did not attend.

In an interview with the Denver Post's John Frank on Saturday, Cruz said...

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