Marijuana decriminalization hangs over Virginia governor's race
Candice Rader is a 66-year-old retiree who grew up in a conservative home, voted for Donald Trump and watched her father suffer as a terminal cancer patient in the late 1970s before he died at age 53.
Even though a friend offered her father marijuana to help alleviate his nausea, Rader said, he refused it because he didn’t believe it was ethical to take an illegal substance.
“To me, that was a very sad thing,” the Norfolk woman said. “I don’t want to ever see that happen again.”
Rader is among the majority of Virginians from both political parties who believe marijuana possession should be decriminalized, and she’s taking note of the positions candidates for governor take on the issue.
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