Latest Fact-Checks In Marijuana

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Don Gaetz
stated on February 13, 2014 a "Florida Face to Face" interview

The medical marijuana ballot initiative "doesn’t require a physician writing a prescription" and can be for conditions like "having a back that needs to be scratched."

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By Amy Sherman, Joshua Gillin • February 21, 2014

Patrick Kennedy
stated on January 8, 2013 news story

"Eighty percent of those who have applied for licenses have no cancer, no Parkinson's disease or glaucoma. They have nothing you would associate [with] the use of medical marijuana."

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By Michael McKinney • February 3, 2013

Silvestre Reyes
stated on February 26, 2012 a video advertisement.

Says opponent Beto O’Rourke "wants to legalize drugs."

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By W. Gardner Selby • March 7, 2012

Gary Johnson
stated on September 19, 2011 an interview with the editorial board of the 'Telegraph.'

Says the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world with 2.3 million inmates, and the majority of Americans are imprisoned because they sold small amounts of drugs.

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By Maryalice Gill • September 22, 2011

Rick Scott
stated on June 5, 2011 an interview on CNN

"Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare."

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By Aaron Sharockman • June 9, 2011

Janet Napolitano
stated on May 7, 2011 a speech before the Atlanta Press Club

"We have seized more currency, more drugs, more outbound arms in the past year than any year in our country’s history."

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By Willoughby Mariano • June 3, 2011

Gil Kerlikowske
stated on March 31, 2010 an interview on C-SPAN's Washington Journal

"More people are driving under the influence of drugs than are driving under the influence of alcohol. A recent roadside survey showed that 16 percent of the people tested, tested positive for illicit or licit drugs. That's significantly higher than alcohol."

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By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2010

Arianna Huffington
stated on July 26, 2009 This Week with George Stephanopoulos

Only 15 percent of drug users are African-American, yet 74 percent of all drug offenders sentenced to prison are black

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By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2009

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