Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton
speaks Friday, July 24, 2015, at the New York University Leonard N.
Stern School of Business in New York. Federal investigators have alerted
the Justice Department to a "potential compromise of classified
information" arising from the private email server used by Clinton in
her home, a department official said Friday. Clinton commented briefly
on the issue saying, "We are all accountable to the American people to
get the facts right, and I will do my part but I'm also going to stay
focused on the issues." (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
(Mary Altaffer)
Clinton told a South Carolina town hall meeting that she wants to see the drug removed from the list of Schedule I drugs, which includes heroin and ecstasy that are thought to have no legitimate medical use.
Instead, she said, marijuana should be moved to Schedule II, which includes cocaine and other drugs that are subject to fewer restrictions for research purposes but remain tightly controlled.
Clinton is the last of the Democratic presidential candidates to express support for loosening federal marijuana laws and maintains that the drug should remain illegal, putting her at odds with leading rival Bernie Sanders, who last week introduced a bill that would abolish federal marijuana prohibition.
Sanders has framed his position as one of criminal justice reform. If the country is serious about reducing its world-beating incarceration rate, it must rethink the war on drugs, he said.
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