One of America’s largest marijuana policy organizations is grading presidential candidates on their individual reform policy — and the grades on the report card run the spectrum from A to F.
Unsurprisingly, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) received the best grade from the Marijuana Policy Project, which released the at a press conference in Denver today. Paul has not only and on the subject — he’s also joined with two Democratic senators to push a bill that would in the 23 states that have already legalized it.
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“Voters should know which candidates support rolling back prohibition and which ones are fighting to maintain it,” Mason Tvert, communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project, said in a statement. “People are becoming increasingly wary of the federal governmentap role in our nation’s marijuana policies.”
The candidates who scored the worst on the MPP’s report card: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former Sen. Rick Santorum, who both received Fs from the pro-legalization organization because “they oppose reform efforts and they are the most vocal supporters of enforcing federal prohibition laws in states that have made marijuana legal.”
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How did some of the bigger-name candidates fare? Jeb Bush received a D because he “has a long history of supporting the war on drugs and opposing the legalization of marijuana for any purpose,” . Hillary Clinton was given a B- because “she supports Washington and Colorado’s rights to set their own marijuana policies and that she is interested in seeing the results of their decisions to legalize marijuana prior to taking a position for or against such laws,” according to the MPP.
The MPP’s report card is timed to this weekend’s , which is expected to bring seven of the candidates to Colorado.
“Several states are likely to adopt new approaches to marijuana policy between now and when our next president takes office,” said the MPP’s Tvert. “She or he should be willing to work with Congress to ease the tension between state and federal marijuana laws.”
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