Friday, February 15, 2019

"Speaking truth, demanding justice"


Charles Fain Lehman and Brent Scher report in the Free Beacon about Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris's conflicting positions on marijuana legalization. When she was California's Attorney General, she caused hundreds of California to be sent to either county jails or state prisons for marijuana usage. Yet, she now says she supports marijuana legalization. She even admits she used marijuana in college.
Many are also questioning whether she was being honest about the timeframe of her drug use. When she was asked what kind of music she listened to during her smoking days in college, she named two artists—Tupac and Snoop Dog—who weren't making music until long after she graduated.

"Either Harris was baked enough to time travel or she hit the bong after being in school," wrote Nick Gillespie for Reason, a libertarian magazine that supports marijuana legalization. "Not cool for a candidate whose slogan is ‘speaking truth, demanding justice.'"
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