{"id":1680750,"date":"2022-10-09T20:19:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T00:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1680750"},"modified":"2022-10-09T20:21:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T00:21:02","slug":"kamala-harris-dragged-for-saying-no-one-should-go-to-jail-for-smoking-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-dragged-for-saying-no-one-should-go-to-jail-for-smoking-weed\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris Dragged For Saying No One Should Go To Jail For Smoking Weed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkamala-harris-dragged-for-saying-no-one-should-go-to-jail-for-smoking-weed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1680750&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Critics ripped into Vice President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kamala Harris<\/a> over the weekend as video circulated of her claiming that no one should go to jail simply for smoking marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019 remarks came on the heels of President Joe Biden\u2019s Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-biden-pardons-thousands-with-federal-convictions-for-drug-crimes-orders-states-to-do-the-same\/\">pronouncement<\/a>\u00a0declaring mass pardons for thousands who have past federal convictions on drug charges \u2014 and flew in the face of her record as a prosecutor in California.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VP HARRIS: &#8220;Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yHDGeUyQ9e\">pic.twitter.com\/yHDGeUyQ9e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Breaking911\/status\/1579206614103785472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd speaking of the system of justice,\u201d Harris began. \u201cWe are also changing \u2014 y\u2019all might have heard that this week \u2014 the federal government\u2019s approach to marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>As the crowd cheered, Harris continued, \u201cBecause the bottom line there is nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco Republican Party Chairman John Dennis \u2014 who is challenging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her seat in Congress \u2014 called out the vice president in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealJohnDennis\/status\/1579230995814883329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet<\/a>, saying, \u201cShameless. As California Attorney General Harris sent people to jail for \u2026smoking weed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hypocrisy is staggering,\u201d actor Matthew Marsden <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthewdmarsden\/status\/1579221383275421697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Senate Candidate Mark Meuser (R-CA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkMeuser\/status\/1579250498724835328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pointed out<\/a>: \u201cClearly, Kamala has forgotten her legacy in California.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cREMINDER: Kamala Harris has sent at least\u00a01,560 people to prison for marijuana-related offenses,\u201d Steve Guest, special communications advisor to Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveGuest\/status\/1579217017244381184\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKamala Harris comes out against Kamala Harris,\u201d Dan King <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kinger_DC\/status\/1579237728604282880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSay what you will about Kamala but at least she\u2019s consistent,\u201d @MattsIdeaShop <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattsIdeaShop\/status\/1579215240801431553\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow \u2026 people can change. But this still funny,\u201d O\u2019Shea Jackson tweeted.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now\u2026.people can change. But this still funny <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zALOfoc1v7\">https:\/\/t.co\/zALOfoc1v7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rm1dCr8m9F\">pic.twitter.com\/Rm1dCr8m9F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 O\u2019Shea Jack(Nichol)son (@OsheaJacksonJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OsheaJacksonJr\/status\/1579217523853373440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A number of critics pointed to the 2020 presidential campaign \u2014 and the moment that many believe Harris\u2019 presidential run really ended \u2014 when former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) laid out some of the details of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/kamala-harris-jailing-drug-company-executives-a-matter-of-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former prosecutor\u2019s record<\/a> on the debate stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cI want to bring the conversation back to the broken criminal justice system that is disproportionately negatively affecting black and brown people all across this country today,\u201d Gabbard began, adding, \u201cNow, Senator Harris says she\u2019s proud of her record as a prosecutor and she\u2019ll be a prosecutor president, but I\u2019m deeply concerned about this record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are too many examples to cite,\u201d Gabbard continued. \u201cShe put over 1500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics ripped into Vice President Kamala Harris over the weekend as video circulated of her claiming that no one should go to jail simply for smoking marijuana. Harris\u2019 remarks came on the heels of President Joe Biden\u2019s Thursday pronouncement\u00a0declaring mass pardons for thousands who have past federal convictions on drug charges \u2014 and flew in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1680752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1680752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}