During a presidential campaign event Saturday in Iowa, Ron DeSantis reiterated his opposition to legalized cannabis. The Governor worries that young children would be able to access cannabis and that it possibly could be adulterated with fentanyl.
"Yeah, I would not legalize," DeSantis said. "I think what's happened is this stuff is very potent now." "I think it's a real, real problem, and I think it's a lot different than stuff that people were using 30 or 40 years ago. And I think when kids get on that, I think it causes a lot of problems," DeSantis said. "And then, of course, you know, they can throw fentanyl in any of this stuff now."
"The drugs are killing this country," DeSantis added during the event coordinated by the Never Back Down Super PAC. DeSantis discussed what he saw during a trip to San Francisco this Summer as evidence that cannabis should not be legalized before acknowledging that in Florida, cannabis has been available for years and that it has not been spiked with fentanyl.
"We have medical in our Constitution, we have medical cannabis, we enforce that, you know, we abide by it, but to take action now to make it even more available, I would not do that," DeSantis said, adding that legalization in Colorado has only expanded the "black market."
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