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Chris Christie, Newfound Drug Warrior, Is Too Late To Stop Pot

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 07/30/2015 - 20:55

He vows to crack down on all marijuana use if elected, but most Americans live under liberalized pot laws.

No presidential election truly feels real until there’s a solid incident of hippie-punching, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was happy to throw the inaugural punch this week by telling pot smokers that as soon as he’s in the White House, the party is over.

That apparently applies to medical marijuana users, too. Christie said he would enforce the federal laws prohibiting all use and possession of marijuana, which rank the plant as dangerous as heroin and provide no exception for medical use.

Christie’s intention may have been to assure the Republican base that the governor of a blue state with a medical cannabis policy is no friend of the reefer or just to shore up his law-and-order bona fides. But his statement was a clear warning to those states that...

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