CBS NEWS — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., embraced medical marijuana use in an interview with the Las Vegas Sun on Thursday, becoming the latest in a series of public figures whose attitudes have reflected a broader political shift toward more permissive marijuana laws.
“If you’d asked me this question a dozen years ago, it would have been easy to answer – I would have said no, because (marijuana) leads to other stuff, but I can’t say that any more,” Reid told the Sun when he was asked about several municipal governments in Nevada that have issued moratoriums on medical marijuana dispensaries.
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“I think we need to take a real close look at this,” he added. “I think that there’s some medical reasons for marijuana.”
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