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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Drugs
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Federally decriminalize cannabis
Ron DeSantis said in June that he would not federally decriminalize cannabis if elected. He said he's concerned about the potency of marijuana and, despite a lack of evidence, the possibility that products could be laced with more dangerous drugs
such as fentanyl. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running as a Democrat, took a swipe at DeSantis over his opposition to reform. If elected, he said, "I will decriminalize cannabis at the federal level." He later declined an invitation to smoke a
joint with comedian Bill Maher.
Kennedy's decriminalization position aligns him to some extent with President Joe Biden, who has also backed decriminalization and allowing states to set their own
cannabis laws. The president has also directed an administrative review into marijuana's federal scheduling that one top official recently told Marijuana Moment he hopes to have completed by the year's end.
Source: 2024 Presidential campaign "Marijuana Moment" press release
, Aug 15, 2023
End War on Drugs, amnesty for nonviolent drug offenders
We will also take special care to ensure the civil liberties of minorities and the poor. We will end the failed War on Drugs and grant amnesty to nonviolent drug offenders. We will shut the school-to-prison pipeline,
and transition prisons away from a punishment paradigm to a rehabilitation paradigm. Prisons will be an intervention in a life gone wrong, and a way to prevent offenders from harming others again.
Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website kennedy24.com
, May 4, 2023
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