Pat Robertson might want to legalize marijuana but as for the vice president -- he said it’s a bad idea.
“I still believe it's a gateway drug. I've spent a lot of my life as chairman of the Judiciary Committee dealing with this. I think it would be a mistake to legalize,” Vice President Joe Biden said in an exclusive interview.
In an episode of the "700 Club" Robertson said sending people to jail for a few ounces of pot is “costing us a fortune and it’s ruining young people.”
"We're locking up people that have taken a couple puffs of marijuana and next thing you know they've got 10 years with mandatory sentences," Robertson said.
“We've got to take a look at what we're considering crimes and that's one of 'em,” he added.
Biden said that there is a difference between sending people to jail for a small amount of marijuana and legalizing it.
“The punishment should fit the crime. But I think legalization is a mistake,” he told me.
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