California Gubernatorial Candidates on Marijuana Legalization
Meg Whitman:
"I am absolutely against legalizing marijuana for any reason. We have enough challenges in our society without heading down the path of drug legalization."
Gavin Newsom, whose campaign spokesman says he opposes legalization:
"I welcome an open dialogue in California on the relative merits of legalization of cannabis. ... While marijuana has positive medicinal properties, it also has adverse effects."
Attorney General Jerry Brown:
"If the whole society starts getting stoned, we're going to be even less competitive.
And we're going to have more broken families and more angry husbands and wives."
Former Rep. Tom Campbell:
"The principal (Mexican) distributors of marijuana are also dominant forces in meth.
If you legalize the one, you run the risk of creating a distribution mechanism for the other."
Jarrod Agen, spokesman for Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner:
"The idea of legalizing drugs is one more bad idea from a bygone era.
Nor can California smoke its way out of the structural budget deficit."
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