Why Isn’t The Marijuana Legalization Movement Donating More Money To Bernie Sanders?

o this point in the U.S. presidential race, the kingmakers of the marijuana movement haven’t been feeling the Bern, as in Democratic candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

Last summer, when Republican candidate Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky held a closed-door fundraising eventat the Cannabis Business Summit in Denver, marijuana activists eagerly backed his campaign. In total, the board members and political action committees (PACs) of the marijuana organizations Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, (NORML) and National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) contributed $24,500 to Paul, who is co-sponsor of the Carers Act, which would protect state medical marijuana programs from federal interference, among other marijuana reform legislation.

Now, Paul is out of the presidential race, and another candidate has taken an even stronger stance on marijuana reform: Sanders, who in October proposed ending the federal...

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