3. Susan Sarandon believes “everybody should be able to smoke pot.”
“I believe in individual rights, I mean, I would like to see everybody be able to smoke pot. That’s a waste of our money to incarcerate all those people. I’m totally a libertarian in that sense,” the actress said in a HuffPost Live interview.
Sarandon went so far as to deem the laws discriminatory.
“It’s completely racist, you’re picking up everybody at the lower level because the mandatory drug laws let you trade in to get off. People at the bottom are filling up our jails, mostly people of color … you’re wasting taxpayers money and allowing drug cartels to make money.”
“It could completely save our a– if we legalized marijuana, just marijuana,” Sarandon continued. “You never hear of anybody robbing stores when they’re too high, they don’t drive cars, alcohol causes more damage to your body, so it’s just a hangup from ignorance that’s become politicized.”
“It’s about education,’ the 66-year-old added. “Baby boomers know that it’s not a gateway drug and it’s not going to kill you and all those other things.”
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