Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson said that marijuana smokers may be "the largest untapped voting bloc in the country," and defended his support for legalization as a popular political stance in an interview with Outside Magazine.
"A hundred million Americans have smoked marijuana. You think they want to be considered criminals?" Johnson said.
In 1999, Johnson made national headlines when as governor of New Mexico he denounced the War on Drugs as "an expensive bust" and called for the legalization of marijuana. Johnson has repeatedly equated the criminalization of drugs to prohibition.
