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Ilhan Omar says she thinks 'a lot of people' in Congress smoke marijuana
Key takeaways
- Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Wednesday said there are a lot of people in Congress who smoke marijuana.
- TMZ caught up with Omar, the co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, in Washington, D.C., to ask about changes to medical and recreational marijuana research.
- After she was pressed further on the point, she smiled, laughed and said, I think there are a lot of people who smoke cannabis in Congress, before she raised two fingers to make a peace sign and walked off.
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Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Wednesday said there are a lot of people in Congress who smoke marijuana.
TMZ caught up with Omar, the co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, in Washington, D.C., to ask about changes to medical and recreational marijuana research. She was asked if she thought it was odd that no members of Congress were open stoners.
I will say –– advocacy for legalizing doesn t necessarily mean that you are a user, so everybody can be an advocate to legalizing it because we understand that it is not OK for us to spend the billions of dollars we do now in incarcerating people for smoking a joint, she said.
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