Jill Stein presidential campaign, 2016/Civil liberties
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See what Jill Stein and the 2016 Green Party Platform said about civil liberties.
Stein on civil liberties
- On her 2016 presidential campaign website, Jill Stein called for justice for all. Her plan included restoring Constitutional rights, terminating unconstitutional surveillance and unwarranted spying, ending persecution of government and media whistleblowers, closing Guantanamo, abolishing secret kill lists, and repealing indefinite detention without charge or trial.[2]
- In 2012, Stein advocated for greater voting rights, including the enactment of "the full Voter's Bill of Rights guaranteeing each person's right to vote, the right to have our votes counted on hand-marked paper ballots, and the right to vote within systems that give each vote meaning."[3]
Marijuana
- On October 12, 2016, Stein tweeted, "It shouldn't be a crime to use marijuana or hemp. Let's keep non-violent people out of prison."[4]
- In 2016, Jill Stein received a grade of A+ from the Marijuana Policy Project for her support of the legalization and regulation of recreational and medicinal marijuana use by adults.[5]
- On April 20, 2016, Stein released a statement calling for the legalization of marijuana nationwide. "It's time to take marijuana off the black market, end crime and violence related to marijuana trafficking, stop wasting money and ruining lives by prosecuting victimless crimes, reduce prison populations, increase tax revenue, allow sick people their medicine, let farmers grow marijuana and hemp, and give responsible adults their freedom," she wrote. Stein said she would order the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Justice Department "to cease and desist all attempts to harass or prosecute medical marijuana clinics or other legitimate marijuana-related businesses that are operating under state laws." She would also direct the DEA to remove marijuana from the category of Schedule I drugs and "place it in a more appropriate category as determined by medical science."[6]
- On her 2012 presidential campaign website, Jill Stein said she would work to "[i]mmediately legalize medical use of marijuana and move to permit general legal sales under suitable regulatory framework."[3]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Democracy Now, "Green Party’s Jill Stein Announces She Is Running for President," June 22, 2015
- ↑ Jill Stein for President, "My Plan," accessed February 18, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jill Stein for President, "Issues," accessed July 6, 2015
- ↑ Twitter, "Jill Stein," October 12, 2016
- ↑ Marijuana Policy Project, "2016 Presidential Candidates," accessed August 9, 2016
- ↑ Jill 2016, "Legalize Marijuana Nationwide," April 20, 2016
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Green Party, "The 2016 Green Party Platform on Social Justice," accessed August 23, 2016
