Apparently she does support aid to Ukraine, but she's well known for being one of the most antiwar members of Congress, including her vote against the 2001 AUMF which she took a lot of heat for at the time (even Ron voted for it). So she's almost certainly better than anyone else Newsom would consider appointing.
And yes, she is great on cannabis reform too which we need more of in the Senate where things are currently stalled.
I'd be happy with a Barbara Lee pick out of all the people that have a chance of being chosen. Great on foreign policy and some civil liberty issues like drug policy reform and opposing the Patriot Act. I know Ron has worked with her on foreign policy stuff.
That's kind of been my impression of him from the beginning but I'm probably still going to vote for him in the primary because he's the only GOP candidate supporting weed legalization. :D There are a few other things I like about him too, he is extremely articulate in pushing back against woke nonsense and I appreciate the different perspective when it comes to foreign policy. I definitely think he is more libertarian-minded than any of the other candidates, even though yeah it is hard to tell what he truly believes.
It was done by Congress when the Controlled Substances Act was enacted in 1970. It was done only as a temporary measure though pending the results of a report released in 1972 (Shafer Commission report) that studied the effects of cannabis. The report never specifically addressed the scheduling of cannabis but it did basically say that the harmful effects were exaggerated and that cannabis should be decriminalized. Congress or the DEA never bothered to change the temporary classification in line with these findings though.
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