Marijuana, Clinton said, is “considered what’s called a Schedule 1 drug and you can’t even do research in it. So I would like to move it from what’s called Schedule 1 to Schedule 2 so that researchers at universities, at the National Institutes of Health could start researching what’s the best way to use it”.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to supporters after filing papers to be on the nation’s earliest presidential primary ballot, Monday, November 9, 2015, in Concord, N.H.
“I want to do more to help those who stay behind, who raise the kids, who support the families, while their loved one is off representing our country”, she said. Clinton told him: “I wouldn’t mess with you”.
Reprising a line that has become a crowd favorite, Clinton said that Obama hasn’t received the “credit he deserves” for helping the nation emerge from a deep recession – and made a passing reference to the economic mantra of her husband, former President Bill Clinton, whose come-from-behind second place finish in New Hampshire propelled his candidacy in 1992. That’s what it was about when my husband ran back in ’92 in New Hampshire. Clinton said in response to a question that she does not now support a declaration of war against the Islamic State given the diffuse nature of the group and the potential costs.
She was on the fence, but it looks like Bernie Sanders may have nudged Hillary Clinton towards a more lax marijuana policy stance.
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The Democratic presidential candidate spoke as a few members of Congress have pushed for a war authorization vote as the USA military intervention in Iraq and Syria has crept forward. Sanders and O’Malley filed paperwork at the secretary of state’s office last week. It’s expected to be held February 9.
