Meet the Republican Texas grandmother trying to end marijuana prohibition

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Ann Lee, 76, only tried marijuana once, but she's made ending pot prohibition her cause. And she's trying to do it through an unorthodox outlet: the Republican Party.

She founded Republicans Against Marijuana Prohibition in 2012, inspired largely by the benefits that medical marijuana brought to her son after a car wreck left him paraplegic. Now she tries to bring fellow conservatives on board her cause.

Lee was one of almost 10,000 delegates to the Texas GOP convention on Thursday, where she hoped to win a spot at the national convention and take her message to Cleveland in July. She's also a prominent Republican activist, and served as precinct chair in the Harris County Republican Party from 1970 to 1992.

She said many of her peers at the state convention are receptive to her appeals for legalized weed, and the ones who don't buy it usually cite reverence for he rule of law.

"Republicans are usually for law and order," she said. "But when there's a bad law, we need to change it."

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