LegalizeMyself

Any such fears are unfounded, since poll after poll shows that a growing majority of voters supports legalizing marijuana. Even larger supermajorities support medical marijuana or letting states set their own marijuana laws without federal interference. These days, the greatest political risk is in endorsing the current prohibition that voters no longer support.

You have called the war on drugs a failure. Do you think legalizing marijuana is part of the solution? And regardless of your own personal opinion on legalization, if elected president would you respect the laws of states that do end prohibition, or would you send in the DEA to enforce federal law?

Thanks for doing this, and thanks for your work on cannabis law reform over the years. My question: What are some of the things Colorado’s next governor can do to defend the state’s marijuana laws from potential federal attacks?

Thanks! On a related note, are you hopeful that the appropriations rider protecting state medical cannabis laws will be continued for FY18? Certainly it has a lot of support among lawmakers from both parties, but House leaders have blocked votes on it recently. How do we get around that?

That’s a pretty big if, though, given Pete Sessions’s moves to block any and all marijuana votes over the course of the past year. I’m not hopeful the Rules Committee will allow said amendment to even get to the floor. As you know, being a member of the panel, it’s pretty stacked and GOP members haven’t been inclined to vote for amendments to rules to allow cannabis measures to advance.