Jeb Bush defies science, claims marijuana causes serious brain damage

Jeb Bush goes heavy on the pot propaganda at GOP town hall.

Thursday during CNN’s GOP town hall, Jeb Bush decided it was a good time to claim his place as the new reefer madness candidate — now that Chris Christie is out of the Republican primary and all.

Bush railed into “the devastating nature of marijuana,” and the “impacts it has on productivity … and brain damage.”

“The potency of this generation’s marijuana … it has serious neurological impacts,” he said. “And yet it’s laughed off because culturally, that’s an obsolete problem. Well, it’s not.”

Fact check: Marijuana does not cause brain damage. Numerous well-recognized studies support that.

Bush went on about his concerns over marijuana’s addictiveness.

“This is not some idle conversation, this is a serious problem,” he said. “Addiction in general is a huge problem for our country.”

Yes, addiction is a big problem, but pot is very...

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