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The Fringe: Discussing Weed With the True Outsiders of the 2020 Presidential Campaign
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| Contributor | Charlotte Rose |
| Last Edited | Charlotte Rose May 20, 2019 05:21pm |
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| Category | Interview |
| Author | David Vills |
| News Date | Wednesday, May 8, 2019 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Possessing a single lung (not literally), I had returned home from Pensacola, ready to interview 23-year-old Libertarian candidate James Jobe. True, Jobe is not old enough to run for President—candidates must be 35 years or older—and he officially dropped out of the 2020 race in the weeks following our conversation. In 2016, he ran on a Harambe-based platform, but let the kid dream.
When talking to Jobe, he is serious about the issues, but he knows he won’t or can’t legally win; he’s using his voice to push for issues he believes in. With all that, the interview as an awkward affair. Jobe is a supremely nice guy, but sometimes personalities don’t click. However, we got through and discussed some interesting marijuana topics. Our Google Hangout discussion lasted 45 minutes.
Jobe had a math test coming up; he was concerned about that. Regardless, we chatted about the drug war.
“The war on drugs needs to end, it is a war on drug users, a war on personal freedom, and it has created a dangerous black market where cartels are making all this money and the state is getting none of it,” said Jobe. “To me, the solution is to legalize all drugs…you may say that makes it easier for people to get drugs, and it does, but some solutions don’t have easy answers…you have to look at the pros and cons. Another thing to consider is that cigarettes kill thousands of people a year.”
We moved onto marijuana regulation—when or if marijuana becomes federally legal.
“You worry about companies engineering products to be addictive, and you don’t want to see that happening with marijuana,” Jobe said. “I am not an expert on drug regulation by any means, but we have to be careful with what is going into peoples’ bodies.”
The conversation was moving rapidly, point to point; Jobe believes marijuana should be legalized by the federal government, not the states. “The goal should be [having marijuana] legal everywhere,” Jobe said. “State |
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