During a campaign stop in Michigan on Mar. 7, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders stated:

'Marijuana is not heroin! [big applause]. I'm not here advocating for marijuana. I've done marijuana twice in my life when I was very young [cheers]. What it did for me was it made me cough a lot. That was my response. But I gather other people have had different experiences… Marijuana is listed as a Schedule I drug alongside heroin [boos]. I agree, and that is why I believe we should take marijuana out of the federal Controlled Substances Act.'