WASHINGTON – Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he was “wrong” about marijuana when he opposed legalizing the drug while serving in Congress.
Boehner predicted that national cannabis legalization is going to happen in less than five years.
“That sound bite about being ‘unalterably opposed’ to cannabis is almost a decade old. Back then, like a lot of folks, I was getting faulty information,” Boehner said of his 2011 remark during today’s American Cannabis Summit online seminar organized by the National Institute for Cannabis Investors.
“I realized I was wrong and, let me tell you, I’ve been having more and more meetings with my friends and colleagues on the Hill about this – some of the most conservative politicians around and their views are evolving on cannabis, too, just like the American people,” he added.
Boehner told the story of a veteran he met who turned to cannabis for pain relief.
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translation: while i was in congress i was paid a lot of money by pharmaceutical companies to oppose legalization but now that i`m not a congressman anymore and not getting paid by pharmaceutical companies i can final say what i really feel and still get to keep the millions that the pharmaceutical companies paid me for all those years.
ReplyDeletei have no respect for people like him.he basically admitted he sold out the american people who elected him to represent them,for personal financial gains.