Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson said late Wednesday that he supports the initiative on California’s fall ballot to legalize recreational marijuana.
“Why do I support it?” Johnson, a longtime backer of decriminalizing marijuana, asked about Proposition 64 while leaving Quicken Loans Arena, site of the Republican National Convention. The initiative is supported by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and billionaire entrepreneur Sean Parker.
Johnson previously said that California “holds the key” to ending prohibition, but did not explicitly offer his support for the measure.
“I do believe that California is going to vote to legalize marijuana recreationally, and I do see this as the absolute tipping point,” Johnson said in conversation with POLITICO at the Lincoln Initiative Reboot2016 conference last month in San Francisco. “I think when California does it in November, you will have 20 state legislatures, overnight, legislate it.”
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He’s pointing out the obvious – marijuana users are everywhere, and very few are causing trouble.