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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Democratic Presidential Debate Marijuana Legalization: Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton Call For Shorter Drug Sentences 🌿Democratic Presidential Debate Marijuana Legalization: Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton Call For Shorter Drug Sentences
In the last half hour of the Democratic presidential debate Tuesday night, the conversation turned toward a subject that, according to CNN moderator Anderson Cooper, everybody in the room probably enjoyed: marijuana.
Before the commercial break, Anderson teased he would be asking the candidates about marijuana, but then he directed his question just to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Sanders said if he could, he would vote to legalize marijuana in the state of Nevada -- which will see the question on its ballot in 2016. Nevada already has legal medical marijuana. Sanders then pivoted to focus on drug arrests, which he said are out of control.
“I suspect I would vote yes,” Sanders said. “I am seeing in this country too many lives being destroyed for nonviolent offenses.” Then he added the United States needs to “rethink this war on drugs.”
While Sanders...
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