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Latest Fact-Checks In Marijuana

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Nikki Fried
stated on October 12, 2019 in a speech to the Florida Democratic Party:
“Hemp has 25,000-35,000 known usages. That means it is going to be something that will replace plastics, and styrofoam and concrete.” 
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 22, 2019
Donna Campbell
stated on May 22, 2019 in the Texas Senate:
“A study was done, a post-mortem, so a retrospective study done, looking at autopsies and drug levels, what drugs were in the blood of veterans that committed suicide, and 70 percent had THC.”
Pants on Fire!
By Taylor Goldenstein • July 15, 2019
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stated on May 14, 2019 in a Facebook post:
“Nearly every state that has legalized (marijuana) has also legislated that you lose your right to own a gun if you are prescribed, or buy it recreationally.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 9, 2019
Kelly Cassidy
stated on May 4, 2019 in press conference remarks:
“In states that have legalized (recreational marijuana), you see steady decreases in youth use if you do it right.”
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • May 12, 2019
Gary Farmer
stated on March 7, 2019 in a Florida Senate meeting:
“Some patients who are on transplant lists for kidney or other organs are being dropped from the list simply because they are shown as a licensed card holder” for medical marijuana.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 27, 2019
John Hickenlooper
stated on March 20, 2019 in a CNN town hall:
After legalizing marijuana in Colorado, “we haven’t seen a spike in consumption.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 25, 2019
David Crowley
stated on February 24, 2019 in a TV interview:
”Over 40 percent of African-American men in (Milwaukee County) have been going to prison for low-level drug offenses, and I think a hundred times that in the city of Madison.”
False
By D.L. Davis • March 19, 2019
Facebook posts
stated on March 11, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Says Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence on hemp paper, grew and smoked marijuana, and said “hemp is of first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • March 13, 2019
Tony Evers
stated on February 18, 2019 in a news release:
“Drug-related offenses make up as much as 75-85 percent of inmate populations” in Wisconsin
Pants on Fire!
By Eric Litke • February 22, 2019
Patricia Fahy
stated on January 14, 2019 in a radio interview:
As for recreational marijuana revenue projections, “we are seeing all those numbers reach disappointing levels in the states that have legalized. They’re not meeting their targets for the most part.”   
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 21, 2019
Thomas Anderson
stated on December 13, 2018 in in a meeting:
“If the experiences in Colorado and Washington are the experiences we have here, roadway deaths are going to go up, impaired driving is likely to go up.” 
Half-True
By Kit Norton, Xander Landen • January 3, 2019
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 14, 2018 in a radio interview:
Says as a Schedule 1 drug, marijuana carries a designation that means it “should not be researched”  
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • November 21, 2018
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 14, 2018 in a radio interview:
Says VA doctors are “censored from being able to talk to their patients” about marijuana, even in states where it is legal for medicinal use
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • November 9, 2018
Bloggers
stated on October 18, 2018 in posts on the Internet:
“Canada Pays Off Entire Federal Debt One Day After Marijuana Legalization”
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 24, 2018
Beto O'Rourke
stated on September 29, 2018 in at a rally in Austin:
Says marijuana is “legal in most states in this country.”
Mostly False
By Johnathan Silver • October 5, 2018
Nate McMurray
stated on August 18, 2018 in a statement on his campaign website:
“Evidence is mounting that marijuana legalization reduces opioid addiction numbers.”
Mostly True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • August 31, 2018
Patrick Kennedy
stated on April 17, 2018 in an editorial:
Marijuana and THC “have caused emergency room visits to skyrocket.”
Half-True
By Katie Akin • July 6, 2018
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on April 20, 2018 in a tweet:
“Black and Latino people in NYC are arrested at TEN times the rate of white people for virtually the same rate of marijuana usage.”
True
By Dan Clark • April 25, 2018
John Chiang
stated on March 29, 2018 in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions:
“A majority of Americans now live in states where they have decided to legalize cannabis,” including recreational and medical marijuana.
True
By Chris Nichols • April 20, 2018
Andrew Cuomo
stated on April 11, 2018 in a conversation with reporters:
“I think we’re actually ahead” on legalizing marijuana for recreational use in New York state.
False
By Dan Clark • April 17, 2018
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