“DeSantis has taken a far more extremist position in his run for president, adopting a full-tilt Reefer Madness approach to marijuana rhetoric and policy.”
By: Justin Strekal, BOWL PAC
Believe it or not, Ron DeSantis used to be one of the coolest Republicans when it came to weed.
Unfortunately, spineless Ron DeSantis has capitulated and fallen in line with the majority of his fellow career-politician Republican prohibitionists. The facts show he is now squarely opposed to the super-majority of Americans (including a majority of Republican voters) who support legalization. This is yet another reason why he must not be elected president.
To be fair, before I continue to trash him, here are the two receipts for why DeSantis used to be decent on cannabis—if only to underscore how pathetic he is for deciding to take a dramatically anti-cannabis turn:
In 2015, DeSantis was one of only 45 Republicans who voted to not waste taxpayer dollars to enforce marijuana criminalization against states that had legalized—when 198 of his Republican colleagues voted to maintain the status quo of oppression. In critiquing the hyper-restrictive licensing structure of Florida’s medical cannabis program in 2019 after being elected governor of Florida, he said, “We
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