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Nancy Pelosi backs California's legal pot proposition

Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 11/07/2016 - 09:02

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Friday she plans to vote in favor of a California proposition to legalize marijuana.

"I will vote for it, but I have not made a public statement about it until right this very second," Pelosi told the Los Angeles Times, declining to elaborate further.
California's Proposition 64 is one of 17 such questions the state's voters face in this election. If the proposition passes, people 21 and older would be legally allowed to have and consume marijuana. The state already has approved medical usage of marijuana.
Pelosi had not previously weighed in on the measure, and her support for it makes her the highest-ranking, sitting elected official in either the Republican or Democratic parties to back the legalization of a drug the federal government currently considers a Schedule 1 narcotic -- a classification that puts pot alongside heroin.
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