Blunt talk: GOP candidates divided on pot use
If there's one thing as surprising as the fact that outsider newcomers have outpaced establishment veterans in the Republican presidential race so far, it's that the contest is playing out in a state that has legalized marijuana.
After all the law enforcement expenditures and jail time meted out in America's war on drugs in recent decades, the political system has begun a turn — on overhauling the criminal justice system for nonviolent offenders, and on the legal status of marijuana. Colorado became the first state to legalize weed, but debate over the issue has spread across the country, and into the GOP race.
The CNN debate in California last month revealed a divide on the issue. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, the leading libertarian in the Republican race, defended Colorado's right to legalize against skeptical rivals.
"I personally think that this is a crime for which...
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