Whoever chose to stage a Republican presidential debate in the liberal Boulder, Colorado, could have either been playing a cruel joke or simply oblivious to the dichotomy presented. According to the New York Times, many Republicans are entering the city and the local population is not too pleased about it. The biggest reason for the tension with the Republican party is because of their stances on marijuana. The Republicans did, in the end, start the War on Drugs.
Not many subjects take up more space in the local psyche than marijuana does. That is more valid because voters in Colorado legalized recreational marijuana use in a ballot in 2012. Most of the candidates who are coming to Boulder for the debate on Wednesday hinted that they want the Republicans’ war on marijuana. Here is what they each had to say:
Jeb Bush: “I thought it was a bad idea, but states ought to have the right to do it.”
Ted Cruz: “I personally don’t agree with it, but that’s their right” & “I actually think this is a great embodiment of what Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called ‘the laboratories of democracy.’”
Carly Fiorina: “I respect Colorado’s right to do what they did. They are within their rights to legalize marijuana and they are conducting an experiment that I hope the rest of the nation is looking closely at. I believe in states’ rights. I would not, as president of the United States, enforce federal law in Colorado where Colorado voters have said they want to legalize marijuana.”
John Kasich: “I would try to discourage the states from doing it. Hopefully, we’ll defeat it in Michigan and Ohio, but if states want to do it … I haven’t made a final decision, but I would be tempted to say I don’t think we can go and start disrupting what they’ve decided.”
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