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When the Harris campaign was in negotiations with Joe Rogan to appear on his podcast, one of the non-negotiable positions was that Joe could not bring up marijuana legalization.
“I think they had requirements on things that she didn’t want to talk about. She didn’t want to talk about marijuana legalization, which I thought was hilarious,” Rogan said on his Tuesday episode.
His guest, comedian Adrienne Iapalucci, asked why the Harris-Walz campaign would have drawn a red line over discussing the legalization of marijuana.
“Because of her prosecuting record,” Rogan said of Harris, who previously served as California attorney general and San Francisco district attorney before becoming a senator and later vice president. “She put a lot of people in jail for weed.”
When Harris ran for president during the 2020 election cycle, then-Democratic candidate Tulsi Gabbard slammed her opponent on the issue during the second primary debate. Gabbard attacked Harris for jailing 1,500 people, especially black men, over weed use.
“Now, Senator Harris says she’s proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she’ll be a prosecutor president. But I’m deeply concerned about this record,” the former Democrat noted. “There are too many examples to cite, but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.”