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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!"And I think we ought to study very carefully what other countries are doing that have legalized marijuana and other drugs, what affect it had on those countries, and are they happy with that decision."In 1996 voters in California became the first to approve medicinal marijuana. A dozen other states have followed suit. But in 2004, Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill that would have eased rules on how much medical marijuana patients can possess. Today's comments show that the governor is coming around on the issue, possibly motivated by potential revenue. He knows as well as anyone that $1.3 billion would go a long way towards closing California's monumental budget gap.The former Hollywood actor, who has admitted smoking marijuana in the past, cited his native Austria as a country where "they want to roll back some of the decisions that were made in European countries."
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