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Andy Caffrey, a candidate for Congress in California, has made a rather unusual campaign promise: If he wins, hell smoke a joint right on the steps of Capitol Hill.
The 54-year-old is running on a seven-step platform that prioritizes battling the climate crisis, but the casual manner in which puffs pot on the campaign trail including twice just last week is what has captivated local media covering the Second Congressional District House race. And Caffrey admits that this is precisely what hes aiming for.
The 54-year-old is running on a seven-step platform that prioritizes battling the climate crisis, but the casual manner in which puffs pot on the campaign trail including twice just last week is what has captivated local media covering the Second Congressional District House race. And Caffrey admits that this is precisely what hes aiming for.
Im willing to get arrested to fight for our rights, to defend our rights as Californians to consume medicine, Caffrey, a registered Democrat, said in an interview. If I have to do it, Ill smoke a joint on the Capitol steps and get arrested to draw national attention to whats going on.
Although he doesnt smoke every day, Caffrey says hes been smoking cannabis with a doctors approval for about six or seven years, and always carries a physicians note in case hes questioned by law enforcement officials. He supports the legalization of medical marijuana on a national level, although he insists that hes not a crusader that everyone should get high.
Although he doesnt smoke every day, Caffrey says hes been smoking cannabis with a doctors approval for about six or seven years, and always carries a physicians note in case hes questioned by law enforcement officials. He supports the legalization of medical marijuana on a national level, although he insists that hes not a crusader that everyone should get high.
Im fighting for our right to consume marijuana at will without any criminal penalties, said Caffrey, who was featured recently in the San Francisco Chronicle. Just dont say Im advocating for children to use it.
Caffrey, who is single and lives alone in an apartment in Garberville, Humboldt County, says marijuana helps him deal with attention deficit disorder and complex posttraumatic stress disorder which resulted, he says, from a list of traumas including his sisters suicide and having been homeless for five years.
I have a lot of talents I do Internet work, I do video, Im making my own television commercials for my congressional campaign sometimes I just have so many things going on and I get very anxious that Im not as focused as I should be, he said. So its more of a focusing agent, I guess you can say, and you can call it sort of an anti-depressant.
There are 11 other candidates in the congressional race.
Caffrey, who is single and lives alone in an apartment in Garberville, Humboldt County, says marijuana helps him deal with attention deficit disorder and complex posttraumatic stress disorder which resulted, he says, from a list of traumas including his sisters suicide and having been homeless for five years.
I have a lot of talents I do Internet work, I do video, Im making my own television commercials for my congressional campaign sometimes I just have so many things going on and I get very anxious that Im not as focused as I should be, he said. So its more of a focusing agent, I guess you can say, and you can call it sort of an anti-depressant.
There are 11 other candidates in the congressional race.