Handle With Care: Pot Issue Unnerves 2016 Contenders

[Purveyor]

By Jonathan Allen and Jennifer Oldham Jul 29, 2014 12:00 AM ET

In presidential politics, pot is being treated as a dangerous substance.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have signaled varying degrees of support for medicinal marijuana.

Yet at a time when the majority of Americans say recreational pot use should be legal, and two states have already made it so, none of the top-tier 2016 presidential prospects in either party has gone that far.

Candidates have an opportunity now to show they can keep up with movements in public sentiment, said Rick Wilson, a Florida-based Republican strategist.

“This is one of those issues, like gay marriage, where society is changing very quickly,” said Wilson, who favors legalizing pot. “Republicans need to get ahead of the curve.”

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-29/handle-with-care-pot-issue-unnerves-2016-contenders.html

[rock]

1. When politics comes in the window logic goes out the door

and vice versa.

[GOLGO 13]

2. Hight Times baby

No stems no seeds that you don't need, Acapulco Gold is...

[mike_c]

3. the only way for them to do this is to acknowledge that the current positions of both parties...

...are wrong, and have been for nearly a century. And that both parties have advanced policies that unjustly imprisoned and destroyed the lives of millions of Americans, for no good reason. Every politician who is silent about this injustice sucks. They're either cowards or, even worse, they are exploiting irrational fear of "drugs" to whip up public fear. But ultimately they are going to have to confront those millions of prisoners incarcerated because they grew, possessed, or used an utterly harmless natural substance that the government outlawed for bogus and illogical reasons.

[TeamPooka]

4. Embrace legalization and get elected President - my advice to all Democratic candidates.

[Sunlei]

5. I ask President Obama to decriminalize MJ at the Federal level.

you can too-

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments