Anonymous ID: 555eaf April 14, 2018, 7:33 p.m. No.1046905   🗄️.is đź”—kun

(((Former House Speaker John Boehner to promote legalizing marijuana)))

 

Former House Speaker John A. Boehner said Wednesday he has had a change of heart on marijuana and will promote its nationwide legalization as a way to help veterans and the nation's deadly opioid crisis.

 

The Ohio Republican, an avid cigarette smoker, has joined the advisory board of Acreage Holdings, a multistate cannabis company. The company also announced that former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld had joined its advisory board.

 

Weld, a Republican as governor, ran in the 2016 presidential election on the Libertarian Party ticket that was headed by legal-pot advocate Gary Johnson.

 

Boehner said in a statement his position "has evolved" from opposing to supporting legalization of marijuana.

 

http:// www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-boehner-marijuana-20180411-story.html