Joe Biden's Anti-Marijuana Past May Come Back to Haunt Him
May 15, 2019
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Joe Biden’s long political record has been picked apart with increasing intensity over the past few months, and now that he’s officially in the race for 2020, a number of influential voices on the left have decried his troublesome role in shaping the modern criminal justice system.
But one slice of this record has gone somewhat more under the radar: His legacy of harsh rhetoric on marijuana.
In September of 1989, Biden, then a United States senator from Delaware and chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, gave a lecture to students at Wake Forest University about the process of nominating and confirming federal judges. Afterward, according to a clip uncovered by Mother Jones, he took questions from the students. Take a look.
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