In an interview with the famed morning radio show \u201cThe Breakfast Club\u201d this week, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris was confronted with her history on the subject of marijuana reform.<\/p>\n
Lenard \u201cCharlamagne Tha God\u201d McKelvey had already dove deep with Harris on various criminal justice related issues throughout\u00a0the 45-minute long interview<\/a>, before he pivoted to the question of cannabis legalization, saying, \u201cAlso I know the answer to this, but they say you oppose legalizing.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s not true,\u201d Harris quickly retorted. Charlamagne quipped again he knew that already.<\/p>\n \u201cI joke about it, half-jokingly. Half my family is from Jamaica \u2014 are you kidding me?\u201d said Harris. \u201cI\u2019ve had concerns. First of all, let me just make a statement and be very clear. I believe we need to legalize marijuana. Now that being said\u2026 and this is not a \u2018but,\u2019 it\u2019s an \u2018and.\u2019 And we need to research, which is one of the reasons we need to legalize.\u201d<\/p>\n Harris went on to note that cannabis needs to be\u00a0rescheduled<\/a>\u00a0to allow for more thorough scientific research on the impact of\u00a0cannabis on the developing brain<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to take that seriously, so I believe we have to research that. I believe we don\u2019t fully know the consequences,\u201d said Harris.<\/p>\n The other cannabis issue she noted was the problem of how to measure impairment when someone is high and behind the wheel.<\/p>\n \u201cThese are details some people might not want to hear about or talk about, but look, I started my work when Mothers Against Drunk Driving were active because so many young people were actively being killed because people who were driving under the influence,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n Harris said that\u2019s her background and that\u2019s just how she thinks about the things. She moved on to the negative aspects of prohibition. She noted that the United States has been disproportionately incarcerating so many young men,\u00a0particularly young men of color<\/a>, for cannabis crimes. She said that other (read: white) young men who use cannabis at the same rates have not faced the same consequences.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got to deal with that, in addition to dealing with the fact that all drugs are not the same. Look, I have forever been an advocate for medicinal marijuana,\u201d said Harris, as she spoke of the people she knew personally that had benefited from medical cannabis.<\/p>\n But what exactly is Harris\u2019s record on medical marijuana?<\/p>\n When Harris was the district attorney of San Francisco,\u00a0her office argued<\/a>\u00a0that the law forbid all cannabis sales, despite the state\u2019s Prop. 215 medical marijuana law.<\/p>\n After her appearance on \u201cThe Breakfast Club,\u201d\u00a0California NORML<\/a>\u00a0issued a press release that\u00a0expanded on the reasons why Harris has not \u201calways\u201d been a proponent of a legal cannabis market.<\/p>\n \u201cAs DA of San Francisco, Harris opposed Prop. 19 to legalize recreational marijuana in California in 2010,\u201d\u00a0the release stated<\/a>, quoting Harris\u2019s campaign manager Brian Brokaw in 2010.<\/p>\n \u201cSpending two decades in courtrooms, Harris believes that drug selling harms communities,\u201d said Brokaw in 2010, according to NORML. \u201cHarris supports the legal use of medicinal marijuana but does not support anything beyond that.\u201d<\/p>\n But NORML notes that it doesn\u2019t oppose once-prohibitionist politicians changing their tune.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re happy California\u2019s Senator Harris has evolved on the marijuana legalization issue and hope to dialog with her and her staff as her campaign moves forward,\u201d said California NORML deputy director Ellen Komp.<\/p>\n After Harris gave her impassioned speech about cannabis, Charlamagne looked her in the eye and very straightforwardly asked her if she had ever smoked.<\/p>\n \u201cI have, and I did inhale,\u201d Harris said, as she laughed alone.<\/p>\n As co-host DJ Envy let the pair chatting know it was almost time to go, Charlamagne spoke over him to Harris asking she had smoked when she was in college.<\/p>\n \u201cUh huh,\u201d said Harris.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s a real hundred answer, was it a blunt or joint?\u201d Charlamagne pressed.<\/p>\n \u201cJoint,\u201d Harris replied.<\/p>\n \u201cHey!\u201d Charlamagne said. \u201cDo you remember the high?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Charlamagne then asked, in a roundabout manner, if Harris would smoke once cannabis were federally legal. \u201cListen, I think it gives a lot of people joy and we need more joy,\u201d Harris said, as she and Charlamagne busted out laughing at her reply.<\/p>\n Before they were done laughing, Charlamagne quickly changed the topic to big banks and all the fun was over \u2014 but not long after the topic came back up. At another point in the interview, Harris was asked what kind of music she listened to when she was high in college. DJ Envy called out, \u201cWas it Snoop?!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOh yeah, definitely Snoop,\u201d Harris recounted. \u201cTupac for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n Not long after the interview began to circle, cannabis advocates noted the timelines just didn\u2019t match up.<\/p>\n \u201cSo Kamala Harris says she smoked weed in college while listening to Snoop and Tupac. The problem is she graduated undergrad in 1986 and law school in 1989\u2026 one of Snoop\u2019s first appearances was Dre\u2019s solo album in 1992 and Tupac\u2019s first album came out in 1991,\u201d\u00a0NORML\u00a0<\/a>Executive Director Erik Altieri noted on Facebook.<\/p>\n Longtime cannabis blogger Johnny Green broke it down even further.<\/p>\n \u201cAre we just disregarding the possibility that Kamala had access to underground hip hop mixtapes in 1989? I know from a Warren G interview that said mixtapes for Snoop were in existence at that time, albeit very unlikely in the possession of soon-to-graduate-from-law-school Kamala Harris,\u201d said Green, on Facebook as well.<\/p>\n While some were quick to jump on the softball \u201cbad stoner memory\u201d joke, others wondered if it may be something a bit darker. What if Harris wasn\u2019t mistaken about the tunes she was listening to while she puffed? In that regard, the\u00a0Washington Examiner<\/a>\u00a0asked: Was Harris getting stoned while serving as an anti-pot prosecutor?<\/p>\n The idea of the district attorney\u2019s office\u00a0locking away various residents of Alameda County from 1990 to 1998<\/a>\u00a0for cannabis crimes, while she was puffing away listening to debut LPs from Snoop and Tupac, is fairly horrifying, if true.<\/p>\n TELL US,<\/b>\u00a0how many politicians do you think have smoked weed?<\/p>\n The post Despite Anti-Pot Record, Kamala Harris Admits to Smoking Cannabis<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
In an interview with the famed morning radio show \u201cThe Breakfast Club\u201d this week, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris was confronted with her history on the subject of marijuana reform. Lenard \u201cCharlamagne Tha God\u201d McKelvey had already dove deep with Harris on various criminal justice related issues throughout\u00a0theContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6814,148,4408,50,4312,4211,3921,81,7556,126],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32797,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32796\/revisions\/32797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Kamala Harris\u2019s Cannabis Record<\/h4>\n
Kamala Harris Says Smoking Cannabis \u2018Gives a Lot of People Joy\u2019<\/h4>\n
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