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Here's Where the Remaining 8 Presidential Candidates Stand on Marijuana

Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 02/22/2016 - 08:45

From full legalization to ramping up the War on Drugs, here's your cheat sheet on where the final eight presidential candidates stand on marijuana.

 

The remaining eight presidential candidates (two Democrats and six Republicans) have a slew of hot-button issues that they're itching to tackle. Social Security, healthcare reform, and national security are all toward the top of the list. However, if the candidates were to listen to the American public, they'd be tackling the marijuana debate head on.
 

Marijuana's unstoppable momentum
Since California first legalized medical marijuana in 1996, 22 additional states, along with Washington, D.C., have followed suit. In addition to patients having access to new pathways of treatments for a variety of diseases (including glaucoma and certain terminal cancers in most states) residents in four states -- Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska -- have OK'd the use of recreational marijuana.

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