A new ad from the campaign of Nebraska independent U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn is highlighting his opponent’s claim that legalizing cannabis will lead to the death of children.
“If you legalize marijuana, you’re gonna kill your kids,” Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) is heard saying in the ad that challenger Dan Osborn’s campaign released on Thursday.
The comments are from 2021, when Ricketts was Nebraska’s governor. He was speaking at a press conference ahead of a vote in the legislature on a bill to legalize medical cannabis.
While that legislation ultimately failed, Nebraska voters approved medical marijuana legalization ballot measures in 2024.
Although Osborn’s ad opens with the Ricketts marijuana quote, it is otherwise focused on the senator voting in favor of funding cuts to Medicaid while receiving campaign contributions from insurance companies.
That said, Osborn has often discussed his support for cannabis reform in detail.
“In 2024, 71 percent of Nebraska voters voted to legalize medical marijuana but Pete Ricketts has sabotaged the will of the people at every turn,” the independent candidate’s campaign website says. “He spent $500,000 on ads lying about medical marijuana. He said it would ‘kill your kids.’ He lobbied against legislation that would have
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