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Hillary Clinton WikiLeaks Hack: What Is The Presidential Nominee's Plan For Marijuana Reform?

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 10/20/2016 - 10:03

If voters were unsure of where Hillary Clinton stood in regards to marijuana reform, the latest round of the Democratic presidential nominee’s emails released by WikiLeaks’ on Friday revealed what Clinton was planning to say about legalizing cannabis before her first debate.

From the sound of the preparatory document included in campaign chairman John Podesta’s hacked emails, Clinton intends to follow in President Barack Obama’s footsteps and take a “hands off” approach to marijuana.

While Clinton’s advisors noted the negative aspects of marijuana in the country like the 700,000 marijuana-related arrests made in 2014, the talking points suggested for the former secretary of state to refrain from highlighting the “signification portion of the U.S. correctional population, or a significant portion of those behind bars for drug offenses.”

Instead, the briefing said for Clinton to point out “that there are hundreds of thousands of arrests for marijuana crimes, and that...

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