Los Angeles, CA: Democratic candidate Bruce Margolin finished eleventh out of 135 candidates in California’s highly publicized gubernatorial recall race. Margolin, a noted attorney and the director of NORML’s Los Angeles affiliate, L.A. NORML, campaigned on a platform that included legalizing and taxing marijuana, as well as pardoning all non-violent marijuana offenders.
Margolin was defeated by Republican front-runner Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has endorsed the use of medicinal marijuana by qualified patients under the state’s Proposition 215 law. Green Party candidate Peter Camejo, who also backed taxing and regulating marijuana as a cash crop, finished fourth in the race.
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