Jill Stein presidential campaign, 2016/Marijuana

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Jill Stein
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See below what Jill Stein and the 2016 Green Party Platform said about marijuana.

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  • Stein supported the legalization of marijuana for medical and recreational use.

    • Green Party Stein on 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."[1]
    • 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.[2]
    • 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."[3]
    • 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."[4]

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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ Twitter, "Jill Stein," October 12, 2016
    2. ↑ Marijuana Policy Project, "2016 Presidential Candidates," accessed August 9, 2016
    3. ↑ Jill 2016, "Legalize Marijuana Nationwide," April 20, 2016
    4. ↑ Jill Stein for President, "Issues," accessed July 6, 2015
    5. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
    6. ↑ Green Party, "The 2016 Green Party Platform on Social Justice," accessed August 9, 2016
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