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Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on September 19, 2014 a debate in the Rio Grande Valley.
"The FBI is involved in an investigation about people in the Rio Grande Valley who are using cocaine to buy votes."      
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 24, 2014
Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi
stated on September 8, 2014 a campaign commercial
Of the 98 top oxycodone-dispensing doctors who used to live in Florida, "today, there are none."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • September 16, 2014
Brad Schimel
Brad Schimel
stated on August 15, 2014 an interview
Heroin and prescription opioids are "the number one cause of accidental or preventable death in Wisconsin."
False
August 27, 2014
John Oliver
John Oliver
stated on August 17, 2014 a segment on his show, "Last Week Tonight"
"The number of SWAT raids have gone up by 1,400 percent since the 1980s."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 18, 2014
Don't Let Florida Go To Pot
Don't Let Florida Go To Pot
stated on August 5, 2014 on their website
"25 percent of all drug-related fatal vehicle accidents in the U.S. involve marijuana."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • August 5, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 her book, "Hard Choices"
"By the time I left" the State Department, "economic growth was up and opium production was down" in Afghanistan, while "infant mortality declined" and school enrollment rose by more than sevenfold.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2014
Americans for Safe Access
Americans for Safe Access
stated on June 5, 2014 a TV ad
Judging by a recent vote, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz "thinks it's okay for medical marijuana patients to go to federal prison."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • June 10, 2014
Earl Blumenauer
Earl Blumenauer
stated on May 15, 2014 a website statement
"Marijuana is less addictive than both alcohol and tobacco."
True
By Dana Tims • June 4, 2014
Heidi Heilman
Heidi Heilman
stated on March 13, 2014 a commentary in The Providence Journal
"Today’s marijuana is 300 percent to 800 percent more potent than the pot of yesteryear."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 30, 2014
NAACP
NAACP
stated on March 3, 2014 a news release
In the U.S., "African-Americans continue to be arrested at nearly three and one half times the rate of whites" on marijuana charges.
True
By John Hill • March 16, 2014
John Morgan
John Morgan
stated on February 24, 2014 a medical marijuana debate at the University of Tampa
Says Cathy Jordan was "arrested" and dragged out of her home by "a SWAT team of hooligans" for using medical marijuana.
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • March 13, 2014
Michael Cerullo
Michael Cerullo
stated on February 20, 2014 a newspaper commentary
"Marijuana contains 50 to 70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than tobacco."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 6, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 31, 2014 an interview with CNN
"What is and isn't a Schedule I narcotic is a job for Congress."
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • February 4, 2014
Patrick Kennedy
Patrick Kennedy
stated on January 21, 2014 an interview with MSNBC
Marijuana today is "genetically modified," with THC levels that "far surpass the marijuana" of the 1970s.
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • January 24, 2014
Brian Kilmeade
Brian Kilmeade
stated on January 21, 2014 a broadcast of "Fox and Friends"
Says Colorado food stamp recipients can use ATMs to get cash to buy marijuana.
False
By Jon Greenberg • January 24, 2014
Nancy Grace
Nancy Grace
stated on January 14, 2014 a segment on 'Nancy Grace'
People on pot "shoot each other ... stab each other ... strangle each other, drive under the influence, kill families."  
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • January 24, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 16, 2014 a graphic on the Internet
"In 1916, the U.S. government predicted that by the 1940s all paper would come from hemp and that no more trees would need to be cut down."
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 17, 2014
Mike Scott
Mike Scott
stated on January 11, 2014 a Facebook post
"Trey Radel does not even qualify to drive a Lee County school bus at this point, yet he occupies a seat in Congress."
True
By Amy Sherman • January 15, 2014
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on January 2, 2014 comments on her show
The Foundation for Government Accountability, which supported a Florida law requiring drug testing of welfare recipients, is a "Koch brothers affiliated group."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Katie Sanders • January 9, 2014
Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi
stated on October 24, 2013 an initial brief to the Florida Supreme Court
Florida’s proposed medical marijuana amendment "would make Florida one of the most lenient medical-marijuana states, allowing use for limitless ‘other conditions’ specified by any physician."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • December 17, 2013
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