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U.S. presidential candidate Harris says she tried pot - and inhaled

 

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FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Kamala Harris launches her campaign for President of the United States at a rally at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in her hometown of Oakland, California, U.S., January 27, 2019. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage/File Photo

 

(Reuters) - U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, a former prosecutor who is seeking the Democratic Party's 2020 presidential nomination, said on Monday she had smoked marijuana in college and supported its legalization.

 

The California Democrat told the syndicated radio show The Breakfast Club at Power 105.1 in New York that she smoked pot while attending Howard University in Washington in the 1980s.

 

"And I did inhale," she said, laughing, in a swipe at former President Bill Clinton, who famously said he had tried marijuana but had not inhaled.

 

Harris, 54, is among a diverse and growing group of Democrats seeking to challenge Republican President Donald Trump in next year's presidential election. Fellow Senators Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts launched their bids over the weekend.

 

A former San Francisco prosecutor, Harris stopped short of endorsing legalized pot during a tight but ultimately successful race to become California's attorney general in 2014.

 

In 2016, during her run for the U.S. Senate, she declined to endorse a ballot initiative that legalized the drug in the most populous U.S. state for recreational use by adults. She said at the time, however, that she expected marijuana to eventually become legal.

 

Since her election to the Senate, Harris has called for legalizing pot and supported a measure to decriminalize it at the federal level. She has for years called for research into the impact of marijuana use on the developing brains of teenagers and young adults, and for standards to judge when drivers are impaired after using cannabis.

 

Asked by the programme's host whether she would use marijuana again if it became legal, Harris laughed but did not answer the question directly.

 

"It gives a lot of people joy," she said. "And we need more joy."

 

As of last December, 10 states and the District of Columbia had legalized small amounts of marijuana for adult recreational use, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

 

The drug is still illegal at the federal level.

 

(Reporting by Sharon Bernstein in Sacramento, California; Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Peter Cooney)

 

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So she's one up on Bill by inhaling, but destined to become Hillary Lite as she turns and turns according to which way the wind is blowing.

 

Of all the million candidates who've been foolish enough to thrust themselves forward so far, this woman is the least trustworthy of the lot.

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Trying to get on Obama wagon? Barry said he smoked pot back in the day. Heck, I'd look askance at anyone who hadn't smoked pot in Cali back then. What's wrong, no friends? Trump is hardly a good example of how you'll turn out if you don't smoke pot or drink.

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she would say what ever she thinks will get votes. trump will say what ever triggers liberals. he is putting on a hell of a show. not going to be a very interesting election if the dems cant find a decent person to run.  they need a decent middle of the road candidate but they all seem to be all, ban everything, tax everything and open the boarder while your at it.

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Currently reading Michelle Obama's autobiography. She states in there that both she and Barry dboth smoked Pot. in the big wide world its no big deal.

 

In moralist Murka it is for some reason. Very straitlaced country with screwed up views on pot and sex but see no issue with the right to arm bears and  waste schools.

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43 minutes ago, Psimbo said:

Currently reading Michelle Obama's autobiography. She states in there that both she and Barry dboth smoked Pot. in the big wide world its no big deal.

 

In moralist Murka it is for some reason. Very straitlaced country with screwed up views on pot and sex but see no issue with the right to arm bears and  waste schools.

Arm bears?  As if bears were not already a serious danger to innocent backpackers.  Why give them rifles too??

 

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Considering her basic lack of knowledge concerning tax policy and economics, I'd be worried if she gets anywhere near the levers of power. Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post Fact Check (hardly a conservative or Trumper) gave her a full four Pinnochio rating for her nonsensical opinions about the Trump tax cuts:

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/13/kamala-harris-leaps-unwarranted-conclusions-tax-tweet/?utm_term=.92164a0d389c

 

 

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1 hour ago, blazes said:

Arm bears?  As if bears were not already a serious danger to innocent backpackers.  Why give them rifles too??

 

Actually, I guess we are on to something!

What if the founding fathers did not talk about the right to bare arms and it was all a "lost in translation"/ Chinese whispers- thing and they actually meant "the right to bear-arms" and everybody could beef up in the fitness center...?!

 

:w00t:

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1 hour ago, doggie1955 said:

She also tried having sex with a 60 yr old man (Willie Brown) when she was 30 yrs old, and yes she did inhale in away... choke, choke!

This is the kind of woman who carries her knee pads with her at all times...

Fortunately it doesn't just apply to Harris, but the other Democrats as well, but this #walkaway movement on YouTube is interesting.

 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23walkaway+campaign

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Good good. This is so not a big deal. It is one of the most innocent drugs out there, and for anyone to make a big deal about it, shows how naive, puritanical, and out of touch they really are. Bill was a smoker, but he was also a pathological liar. The very idea of speaking the truth, about anything, was beyond his ability. Had he just told the truth about Monica, it probably would have just gone away.  

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On 2/11/2019 at 10:27 PM, jimmyyy said:

Pot head for President........   Trump gonna have a field day, never mind the Meme's........

Sort of like  Log Cabin  republicans expressing disdain for transgenders or Mormons who deny that they masturbate.

Most people under the age of 40 have either used or have friends or family who have used at some point in their life.

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7 minutes ago, geriatrickid said:

Sort of like  Log Cabin  republicans expressing disdain for transgenders or Mormons who deny that they masturbate.

Most people under the age of 40 have either used or have friends or family who have used at some point in their life.

 

It's possible that there are more than just "Log Cabin republicans" who have a reservation about trans this or trans that and all the other "No Trespassing" identities of the Social Justice Warriors.

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Her father is disowning her over this issue, saying she is playing racial politics and stereotyping Jamaicans. 

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“My dear departed grandmothers(whose extraordinary legacy I described in a recent essay on this website), as well as my deceased parents , must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty.” https://www.jamaicaglobalonline.com/donald-harris-slams-his-daughter-senator-kamala-harris-for-fraudulently-stereotyping-jamaicans-and-accusing-her-of-playing-identity-politics/

 

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On 2/12/2019 at 2:53 PM, blazes said:

So she's one up on Bill by inhaling, but destined to become Hillary Lite as she turns and turns according to which way the wind is blowing.

 

Of all the million candidates who've been foolish enough to thrust themselves forward so far, this woman is the least trustworthy of the lot.

You are right. Compared to Trump she isn't „trustworthy?:cheesy::cheesy:

 

Nowadays you have the biggest chance to win race for the GOP (better SOP = Sordid Old Party) if you are so „trustworthy“. That means the SOP-people „trust(ed)“ Trump

  • when he grabbed ladies“ pussies.

  • when he <deleted> around at the time his wife gave or has given birth to a baby

  • when he said: We've gotten more done than any other administration

  • when he said: Steel and automaker investments are skyrocketing

  • when he said: Tariffs are making America rich

  • when he said: Democrats are "radical socialists” who want to turn America into Venezuela

  • when he said: We pulled off an economic turnaround of historic proportions

  • when he said: Obama separated children from their families at the border.

  • When he said: The Russia probe is witch hunt

  • when he said: Republicans support protections for people with pre-existing conditions (in connection with Obama care).

  • when he said: We're building the (cement) wall

  • when he said: making America great again.

  • The list of lies goes on … nearly endlessly.

 

Go on ….. and trust him and his limited brain. Let's not talk about his "trustworthy moral" against (former) US friends.

 

 

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3 minutes ago, puck2 said:

You are right. Compared to Trump she isn't „trustworthy?:cheesy::cheesy:

 

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  • When he said: The Russia probe is witch hunt

  • when he said: Republicans support protections for people with pre-existing conditions (in connection with Obama care).

  • when he said: We're building the (cement) wall

  • when he said: making America great again.

  • The list of lies goes on … nearly endlessly.

 

Go on ….. and trust him and his limited brain. Let's not talk about his "trustworthy moral" against (former) US friends.

 

 

What a quaint and wearying list!  [which I took the liberty of cutting]. You would have to be very naive to believe all those Trumpisms.  (Set aside the problem that you could construct a similarly quaint list of "lies" about ANY politician alive or dead in the long course of the planet's experience of elections. Granted, some tell more lies than others...but...)

 

As you may not have noticed, I did not mention Trump when querying Harris's trustworthiness or capacity for viciousness.  And I certainly did not mean to imply that Trump was a more decent human being than Harris (or indeed almost anyone you could care to mention in modern political life!!)

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Good good. This is so not a big deal. It is one of the most innocent drugs out there, and for anyone to make a big deal about it, shows how naive, puritanical, and out of touch they really are. Bill was a smoker, but he was also a pathological liar. The very idea of speaking the truth, about anything, was beyond his ability. Had he just told the truth about Monica, it probably would have just gone away.  
Not a big deal at all. Considering President Obama was a certified pothead in his youth and grew up to be one of our greatest presidents.

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