Earl Blumenauer was a 25-year-old “child legislator” in the Oregon House of Representatives in 1973, as he recalled it, when he realized there was something wrong about marijuana.
Not that he knew this firsthand.
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“At that point, I don’t think I’d ever seen anybody even smoke marijuana,” said the Democratic U.S. representative, now 75 and a year from his recently announced retirement after 50 years in public life, the past 27 representing the 3rd District of Oregon, including deep-blue Portland, in Congress.
And not that he knows that now, at least not in a firsthand way: The co-chair and co-founder of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus – who predicts the 2020s will be the decade when Congress legalizes marijuana federally – swears he’s never used marijuana.
Instead, he recognized early on that how society treated cannabis users was way off.
Back then, he recalled in a recent
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