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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Republicans Debate Marijuana Legalization: Jeb Bush Admits To Smoking Pot 🌿Republicans Debate Marijuana Legalization: Jeb Bush Admits To Smoking Pot
Top-tier Republican candidates participating in the second GOP debate Wednesday night huffed and puffed over marijuana legalization as more states move to allow voters to legally light up. One Republican candidate even admitted to getting high in his youth.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said the drug war has gone too far, noting that there were racial implications associated with it. He advocated for more rehabilitation and less incarceration, and said it was hypocritical for candidates who had smoked pot in the past to oppose medical marijuana.Â
"He was talking about me," said former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Bush then bluntly stated that he had smoked pot 40 years ago, adding that his mother probably wouldn't be happy with him admitting his drug use. The crowd laughed.
Bush then moved from the topic of pot to heroin, and the issue of controversial drug courts, Vice reported, prompting a...
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