ABikerSailor
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Over the weekend, Paul Ryan said this......................
Ryan: Don't interfere with legalized medical pot - Yahoo! News
But then......................yesterday, he pulled a Mittens and flip flopped.................
Paul Ryan’s campaign immediately retracts candidate’s support for medical marijuana | The Raw Story
Ryan's flip flop times are getting almost as good as Mittens'.
DENVER (AP) Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan says the federal government shouldn't interfere with states that have legalized medical marijuana.
The Wisconsin congressman tells KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs that he personally doesn't approve of medical marijuana laws. But he says that states should have the right to choose whether to legalize the drug for medical purposes.
In response to a reporter's question, Ryan said: "It's up to Coloradans to decide."
The interview was taped while Ryan campaigned this week in Colorado Springs and aired Friday.
Colorado is one of 17 states, plus the District of Columbia, that allow medical marijuana.
The Obama administration at first signaled that it wouldn't interfere with state-sanctioned marijuana distribution. But the Justice Department has since angered marijuana activists by shutting down dispensaries in California and Colorado.
Ryan: Don't interfere with legalized medical pot - Yahoo! News
But then......................yesterday, he pulled a Mittens and flip flopped.................
Campaign aides for Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) busied themselves this weekend with telling reporters that the candidate agrees with Mitt Romney on keeping marijuana illegal, despite him telling a Colorado television station that he supports letting states flout federal laws on medical marijuana.
Romney said earlier this year that he believes marijuana should not be legal in this country, calling it a gateway drug to other drug violations.
The views would seem to directly clash with what Ryan told KRDO-TV in Colorado on Friday night. My personal positions on this issue have been let the states decide what to do with these things, he remarked during a pre-taped interview. This is something that is not a high priority of ours as to whether or not we go down this issue. But Ive always believed is the states should make the right to decide.
Paul Ryan’s campaign immediately retracts candidate’s support for medical marijuana | The Raw Story
Ryan's flip flop times are getting almost as good as Mittens'.