Sen Ted Cruz Smoked Pot

According to MSNBC, a spokesperson for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told the Daily Mail Online that he smoked pot in his teen years.

When he was a teenager, he foolishly experimented with marijuana. It was a mistake, and he’s never tried it since.

I’m not sure which is worse, the fact that some Americans will genuinely be shocked by the news that their Tea Party golden boy could have possibly passed a joint in his younger days or that his campaign felt the need to respond to the Daily Mail Online with such defensiveness.

You could discuss commonsense changes that maybe should happen or shouldn’t happen. This president didn’t do that. He just said, ‘The laws say one thing’ — and mind you these are criminal laws, these are laws that say if you do ‘X, Y, and Z’ you will go to prison. The president announced, ‘No, you won’t.’

The Marijuana Policy Project produces an annual list of the “Top 50 Most Influential Marijuana Users” and again, no real surprise, Cruz has some company. I’d mention that perhaps our boy Teddy will be added in the future, but I would hate to assign dear Teddy to any list that names influential people, ever.

Here are the top 20:

1. President Barack Obama
2. Oprah Winfrey
3. President Bill Clinton
4. Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
5. Stephen Colbert
6. Jon Stewart
7. Jay-Z
8. John Kerry
9. George Soros
10. Bill Maher
11. Bill Gates
12. President George W. Bush
13. Governor Andrew Cuomo
14. Senator Rand Paul
15. Sanjay Gupta
16. Lebron James
17. Rush Limbaugh
18. George Clooney
19. Mayor Michael Bloomberg
20. Lady Gaga

Isn’t it about time we end the prohibition on cannabis? We are talking about a something that has less risk associated with it than alcohol, yet is still considered a Schedule I substance, “the most dangerous drugs of all drugs” per the Drug Enforcement Administration, alongside things like heroin. Shocking news would be “Ted Cruz hit the crack pipe” – not news of him doing something in his youth that most people have done at least once in their life and is less harmful than having a beer on Sunday.

Source : http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/politics/shocking-news-a-young-ted-cruz-smoked-pot-like-nearly-everyone-else/#ixzz3QsPb1hks