Senate Candidate Highlights GOP Opponent's Claim That Legalizing Marijuana Will Cause Children To Die
Ricketts’s past opposition to cannabis legalization is featured in an ad released by his Senate opponent’s campaign.
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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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