Mamabudz

From Dean's Website:

What about this country's drug policy?

"Addiction is a troubling health problem, not a judicial problem. But I don't favor legalizing marijuana or decriminalizing it. I think that if you're a drug addict or a veteran pot smoker, you need rehab, not jail. But if you're drug dealing in the schools, you go to jail, or if you're shooting convenience store clerks, you go to jail. Bottom line is, the reason I don't support legalization or decriminalization is because we already have enough trouble with the two drugs that are legal--tobacco and alcohol. And to send a message to kids that this is okay is not healthy."

You went to Yale in the late '60s and early '70s. Did you inhale?

"I did."

Have you been asked this before?

"Oh yeah. I decided before the campaign started that I wasn't going to answer those kinds of questions about my irresponsible youth. But I admitted to a high school audience in 1995 that I smoked pot when I was a kid. I'm not proud of it, and I think it was a mistake, but there's no sense in trying to pretend later on that I didn't."
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He just lost my vote....