Hillary Clinton has changed her position on marijuana only slightly on marijuana legalization over the weekend, after avoiding the issue for months during her presidential campaign. Hillary Clinton said that she would like for the federal government to change how it regulates marijuana so that researchers can experiment on medical marijuana during a town hall in South Carolina.
At the moment, marijuana is a Schedule 1 drug, which means that the government considers it useless along with drugs such as heroin. Clinton announced that as president, she would reclassify weed to Schedule 2, which is what drugs such as painkillers are categorized under. This would mean that marijuana would still be illegal for recreational use, but it would open the door for medical uses.
Clinton is still not as much of a marijuana advocate as her leading competitor, Bernie Sanders. Sanders called it “absurd” just a month ago that the feds still treat weed the same way that they treat drugs as dangerous as heroin. Another absurd thing that Sanders pointed out was that anti-marijuana laws seem to be much more geared towards African Americans than any other race. A week ago, Sanders introduced a bill that would end the federal ban on marijuana. Under this bill, states could still choose whether or not they want recreational use, but states such as Colorado and Washington have already legalized marijuana no longer need to fear intervention from the feds.
Legalization is on pace to becoming the top social causes among the democratic party, with polls now showing that now more than half the country supports legalizing marijuana. However, Clinton has been hesitant when discussing marijuana reform, saying that she has her eye on the state-level legalization experiments while still trying to decide what she thinks on the issue.
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