By Sam Wroblewski WPRO.com
In a YouTube ad, a write in candidate for Rhode Island Governor smokes marijuana and says she will run to remove the stigma placed on marijuana users.
In the campaign video titled “Fresh Air,” Anne Armstrong, a cannabis caregiver, speaks about her desire to use the office to improve the image of cannabis users in the public eye.
“It doesn’t make people crazy the way you’ve been told, and so I hope that you will read, and open your eye and realize the truth that we’ve been lied to for a long time by our government,” Armstrong says in the ad, “And something that has been essential to our health has been taken away from us.”
Armstrong, the 54-year old mother of seven and daily user of cannabis says that the human body needs cannabis to be healthy, and that chronic disease and even cancers are the result of having been deprived of the substance.
“It turns out it’s not a harmful substance, it’s very important and dietary supplement and people really do need to have access to it to be healthy,” Armstrong told WPRO.
Armstrong’s ad concludes with Armstrong picking up a glass pipe and lighting it. When asked why she ended her ad in such a way, she pointed to former President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama as examples of successful people who have smoked marijuana.
“We’re supposed to sit with straight faces and tell our kids its bad for them when they see Michael Phelps smoking cannabis?”
Armstrong is encouraging anybody who believe in her message to write her name in on November’s ballot.
View the video below:
