Opinion : A pot-smoking candidate reminds us how far we have to go on cannabis

The Washington Post · The Washington Post · last updated January 18, 2022 – 11:15 AM

It’s hard not to conclude that this was one of those issues in which Biden took a position he was comfortable with — and one to the right of other candidates urging legalization, including his future vice president — but it wasn’t something he cared about or would expend effort on. Which might not be surprising for a man who came of age in the 1950s when cannabis was still considered an evil weed consumed only by criminals and jazz musicians.

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