Joe Kennedy Representative State Of The Union Response

Kennedy has, however, worried legalization advocates with his views on recreational pot. “I don’t think marijuana should be legalized,” he told Boston magazine in 2016. “If we’re going to say marijuana is a medicine, it needs to be treated like a medicine and regulated like a medicine. But when we look at full-on legalization, the potential danger that marijuana poses particularly to adolescents — I’m not convinced.”