Senate Candidate Highlights GOP Opponent's Claim That Legalizing Marijuana Will Cause Children To Die
Osborn’s campaign used Ricketts’s past cannabis remarks in an ad and promotes medical cannabis and broader reform.
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Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn’s campaign released an ad featuring Sen. Pete Ricketts’s past warning that legalizing cannabis would kill children. The article also describes their opposing cannabis positions and says the ad focuses mainly on Ricketts’s vote for Medicaid funding cuts and insurance-industry contributions.
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