{"id":4854,"date":"2015-10-12T19:02:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T19:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/?p=44438"},"modified":"2015-10-12T19:02:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T19:02:15","slug":"ben-carson-knows-anti-legalization-stance-isnt-popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/ben-carson-knows-anti-legalization-stance-isnt-popular\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Carson Knows Anti-Legalization Stance Isn\u2019t Popular"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/ben-carson-knows-anti-legalization-stance-isnt-popular\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson opposes legalizing marijuana, and he knows that his prohibitionist stance isn&#8217;t likely to win him any votes from young people.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rAdIlaXhYTc\">CNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Squawk Box&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0last Wednesday, Carson was asked whether his support primarily comes from voters who care about fiscal or social issues. Without direct prompting, the neurosurgeon who has never held political office responded that his stances opposing legalization of marijuana and marriage equality for LGBT people aren&#8217;t doing him any favors when it comes to attracting support from younger generations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we have rallies, I see huge numbers of millennials and young people, and I know that they for the most part probably don&#8217;t agree with me on the definition of marriage or whether marijuana should be legalized,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>But he added\u00a0that for the most part, young\u00a0voters are\u00a0willing to look past their disagreements with the candidate on these social issues in favor of fiscal concerns. &#8220;They do understand that there&#8217;s somebody who is looking out for their future,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And understands the economic implications of our fiscal irresponsibility and what it would do to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='702' height='425' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rAdIlaXhYTc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Carson isn&#8217;t the only 2016 candidate who knows a\u00a0prohibitionist\u00a0stance is a political\u00a0loser. Last month, fellow Republican Rick Santorum, who opposes legalization, was asked why Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders seems to be drawing a lot of support from young people. &#8220;When you go out and say you\u2019re gonna legalize drugs and do all sorts of great stuff, you get people showing up at your events,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2015\/09\/santorum-on-sanderss-rise-drug-reform-helps\/\">he said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While\u00a0marijuana legalization and drug policy reform were once\u00a0widely seen as dangerous third rails of politics to be avoided at all costs, <a href=\"http:\/\/marijuanamajority.com\/\">polling now shows<\/a> that a growing majority of Americans support ending cannabis prohibition\u00a0and supermajorities support medical marijuana and letting states set their own laws without federal interference. And support for marijuana law reform is particularly high among younger voters:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2015\/02\/27\/63-of-republican-millennials-favor-marijuana-legalization\/\">One survey<\/a> showed that 63 percent of Republican millennials support\u00a0legalization.<\/p>\n<p>Even though he opposes full legalization, Carson does at least support medical marijuana. \u201cWould I recommend medical marijuana? Absolutely,\u201d he said at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?328221-1\/dr-ben-carson-campaign-rally-ohio\">campaign rally<\/a> in Ohio. \u201cI have no problem with medical marijuana. But that is very different from legalizing it for recreational use. I would not do that under any circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2015\/04\/where-do-presidential-candidates-stand-on-marijuana\/\">Click here<\/a> to see what else the presidential candidates have said about marijuana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson opposes legalizing marijuana, and he knows that his prohibitionist stance isn&#8217;t likely to win him any votes from young people.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rAdIlaXhYTc\">CNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Squawk Box&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0last Wednesday, Carson was asked whether his support primarily comes from voters who care about fiscal or social issues. Without direct prompting, the neurosurgeon who has never held political office responded that his stances opposing legalization of marijuana and marriage equality for LGBT people aren&#8217;t doing him any favors when it comes to attracting support from younger generations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we have rallies, I see huge numbers of millennials and young people, and I know that they for the most part probably don&#8217;t agree with me on the definition of marriage or whether marijuana should be legalized,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>But he added\u00a0that for the most part, young\u00a0voters are\u00a0willing to look past their disagreements with the candidate on these social issues in favor of fiscal concerns. &#8220;They do understand that there&#8217;s somebody who is looking out for their future,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And understands the economic implications of our fiscal irresponsibility and what it would do to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='702' height='425' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rAdIlaXhYTc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Carson isn&#8217;t the only 2016 candidate who knows a\u00a0prohibitionist\u00a0stance is a political\u00a0loser. Last month, fellow Republican Rick Santorum, who opposes legalization, was asked why Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders seems to be drawing a lot of support from young people. &#8220;When you go out and say you\u2019re gonna legalize drugs and do all sorts of great stuff, you get people showing up at your events,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2015\/09\/santorum-on-sanderss-rise-drug-reform-helps\/\">he said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While\u00a0marijuana legalization and drug policy reform were once\u00a0widely seen as dangerous third rails of politics to be avoided at all costs, <a href=\"http:\/\/marijuanamajority.com\/\">polling now shows<\/a> that a growing majority of Americans support ending cannabis prohibition\u00a0and supermajorities support medical marijuana and letting states set their own laws without federal interference. And support for marijuana law reform is particularly high among younger voters:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2015\/02\/27\/63-of-republican-millennials-favor-marijuana-legalization\/\">One survey<\/a> showed that 63 percent of Republican millennials support\u00a0legalization.<\/p>\n<p>Even though he opposes full legalization, Carson does at least support medical marijuana. \u201cWould I recommend medical marijuana? Absolutely,\u201d he said at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?328221-1\/dr-ben-carson-campaign-rally-ohio\">campaign rally<\/a> in Ohio. \u201cI have no problem with medical marijuana. But that is very different from legalizing it for recreational use. I would not do that under any circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2015\/04\/where-do-presidential-candidates-stand-on-marijuana\/\">Click here<\/a> to see what else the presidential candidates have said about marijuana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2417,9,2418,1,3],"tags":[2419,2420],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}