Most Republican Candidates Support Medical Marijuana in States

To vote for pot freedom, or against it, that is the question important to millions of Americans. In about a year, we will have an opportunity to vote for a president. Americans have a right to know what candidates propose for cannabis growers and consumers.

Most already know that Sanders has more favorable positions on pot than Hillary. Yet Sanders in effect conceded to Hillary in their first debate, when he said he didn’t want to know about her hacked e-mails or disastrous Libya policies. Hillary will likely be the Democrat party nominee, and her stance on marijuana is similar to her Republican counterparts.

Yet she has high net negatives and people don’t trust her. She hasn’t achieved on her own, but owes her power to her more popular and

sensible husband. So we should consider who the Republican candidates are, because the next president could be a Republican.

Basically, except for a few outliers like the minor candidates Santorum and Christie, Republican candidates support the 10th amendment and the right of states to set their own cannabis policies.

Rand Paul is probably the most pot-friendly, and Ted Cruz the most ideologically committed to states’ rights under federalism (similar to the ancient common law of the Roman Republic).

Yet Rand is not polling well and will probably drop out. Of the top pollers, Ben Carson is the least pot-friendly, yet even he would support the right of states to medical cannabis. Even though his theory that the pyramids are really hollow and were built for grain storage, does seem inspired by some kind of hallucinogen.

What counts is not how candidates view pot, but how they view pot laws. Right now, cannabis is a states’ rights issue.