* Chris Kennedy was asked over the weekend about marijuana while speaking to a group of college Democrats in Bloomington. If it was legalized, the student asked, what would his plan be for using the tax money?

“I think you have high hopes,” Kennedy quipped to laughter and applause, and then said…

“I don’t know whether it’ll get legalized, I don’t know if it’ll get taxed. I mean, I think betting our future that all of that occurs and that somehow that’s gonna cure our budget problem. I think we need thoughtful, real, concrete that operate without … without relying on something that has, you know, tenuous, um possibilities. Sorry. I’ll tell you the truth.”

The students were dead silent when he finished, so Kennedy decided to take one more question because, he said, “I can’t go out on that one.”

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* This video clip is from the same event, but the quality isn’t as good. JB Pritzker received roaring applause to his one-sentence statement on the topic: “And I think we should legalize marijuana and tax it”…