Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast \u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience\u201d is quickly becoming a stop on the campaign trail, along with deli counters in New Hampshire and county fairs in Iowa. The entrepreneur Andrew Yang and Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard have already made a visit to Rogan\u2019s podcast, but Sen. Bernie Sanders is the biggest name in politics yet to stop by the show. <\/p>\n
The podcast represents a platform where candidates can dive into their ideas on policy in-depth, and Sanders did <\/a>j<\/a>ust that<\/a> in his Aug. 6 episode. In a back and forth with Rogan over a little more than an hour, they covered Sanders\u2019 take on the minimum wage, Medicare for All and criminal justice \u2014 including the need to reform federal marijuana laws, and how Sanders would get it done via executive order. <\/p>\n Rogan posed a question to Sanders on cannabis legalization, \u201cLet me say this, when I ran for president, Sanders said that he is calling for the legalization of marijuana in America, in part because the Controlled Substances Act<\/a> is nonsensical, given that marijuana and heroin are categorized together. <\/p>\n \u201cThat is insane,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cHeroin is a killer drug. You can argue the pluses and minuses of marijuana, but marijuana ain\u2019t heroin. So we have to end that, and that\u2019s what I will do.\u201d<\/p>\n Sanders said as president, he believes he will Sanders went on to say he is very proud of the \u201cWhat seemed kind of radical, the need to legalize and decriminalize marijuana\u2026 still is spreading all over the country,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cAnd by the way, it blows my mind. The drive-thrus in Nevada, here in California, you see signs from corporations, \u2018Buy our marijuana.\u2019 Four years ago, people were getting arrested for doing that, right? Their lives being destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cParticularly in Nevada,\u201d Rogan replied. \u201cCan you believe that?\u201d Sanders quipped back. \u201cAnd now you have corporations selling the damn product people went to jail for.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Sanders said ultimately he thinks the United States will have to legalize marijuana and pointed to restorative justice measures across the country as part of the good news. <\/p>\n \u201cSome cities are expunging records<\/a>, so if you\u2019re arrested or have a criminal record for selling marijuana, that is being expunged and that\u2019s the right thing to do,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n However, Sanders did make clear that he\u2019s \u201cnot a huge fan of drugs.\u201d He referenced a couple of times that he tried marijuana, but said it didn\u2019t do much for him. When Rogan asked Sanders where he got it, he replied \u201cNorthern Vermont.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s the problem,\u201d Rogan said, as Sanders laughed along. \u201cYou got to get some here [in California]. It\u2019ll do something for you.\u201d <\/p>\n Rogan spoke of the hard drugs in urban centers \u201cNo, not at this point,\u201d Sanders replied, \u201cbut you\u2019re touching on a real tragedy. And when we talk about criminal justice in America we have over two million people in jail. They are disproportionately African American, Latino and Native American. I think in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, what we have got to do instead of building more jails and locking up more people, we really do have to invest in our young people. Especially young people in distressed communities.\u201d<\/p>\n Sanders thinks one component to helping with TELL The post Bernie Sanders Says He\u2019d Legalize Marijuana by Executive Order<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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\nnoting the fact that the illicit market continues to fuel cartels who load
\ntheir weed up with pesticides. <\/p>\n
\nfor the Democratic nomination in 2016, I talked about a broken criminal justice
\nsystem \u2014 which ends up having, in the United States, more people in jail than
\nany other country,\u201d Sanders replied. \u201cWe have more people in jail than China
\ndoes, which is a communist authoritarian country.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nbe empowered to change the law via executive order, \u201cand I will do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nstates that have pushed forward on legalization and decriminalization.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThere were life sentences given out in the \u201970s.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
\nleading to cycles of incarceration, he asked Sanders if he had any plans on
\ndecriminalizing or legalizing all drugs. <\/p>\n
\nsubstance abuse issues is just doing whatever we can to make sure the most
\nat-risk youth finish high school.<\/p>\n
\nUS,<\/strong> do you think cannabis can be made legal through
\nexecutive order? <\/p>\n
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