
Kamala Harris (Screenshot via YouTube)
I believe we need to legalize marijuana … and we need to research the impact of weed on a developing brain. I have smoked [marijuana]. And I did inhale. It was a long time ago.
— California senator and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, admitting during “The Breakfast Club” radio show that she not only smoked marijuana in the past, but that she supports fully legalizing the drug. “Half my family’s from Jamaica. Are you kidding me?” she joked.

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