On Marijuana, Hillary Clinton Sides with Big Pharma Over Young Voters

[Ichingcarpenter]

As her lead in the polls continues to dwindle, Hillary Clinton is trying her best to appeal to young voters, who favor her main opponent, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Clinton goes to ridiculous lengths in her attempts to woo young people into supporting her campaign: she’s whipped and nae-naed on Ellen, dubbed herself Chillary Clinton, and even asked college students to describe how they felt about their student debt “in three emojis or less.”

Although it seems that she’ll do anything to get their votes, there’s one thing Hillary Clinton won’t do: champion the issues that young voters care about.

While 77% of young Democrats believe marijuana should be legal, Hillary Clinton is unwilling to support meaningful marijuana reforms. She’s opposed decriminalizing marijuana during her previous presidential run and has given little indication that she changed her position on the issue since. Today, Clinton will only go so far as to support the rescheduling of marijuana to Schedule II, giving it the same legal status as cocaine and methamphetamine.

It’s unlikely that Clinton’s reluctance to embrace marijuana law reform will help her gain popularity among young voters. But her positions on this issue are certainly in line with the interests of a key ally of hers: Big Pharma.


http://marijuanapolitics.com/on-marijuana-hillary-clinton-sides-with-big-pharma-over-young-voters/

[Fumesucker]

1. ...

[Wilms]

3. Yup. She got hers.

F*$k everyone else.

[randr]

2. The private prison corporation profits are to be protected

[Android3.14]

4. The benefits of weed are manifold, and Clinton is morally compromised

Her position is a deal breaker and will propel Trump into the White House.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Four States have legalized by voter majority, and still the East Coast elite does not get it.

O'Malley never got a second look around here because he started off saying 'we are all watching Colorado' as if Oregon Washington and Alaska do not exist and as if Colorado was a brand new law. What is he 'watching'?
It's a new industry and they need to get out of the last century.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Color me shocked.

Hell, just a week ago DWS was doubling down on drug war tropes and putting pot smokers in prison, in the same interview she directly insulted millennials.

Maybe that's what the arrow in Hillary's logo is for-- it's directing the kids to get off her lawn.

[elias49]

7. She's against so many things until she's FOR them..

unprincipled is what I'd call her.