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Pants on Fire!

Number is way high; Evers has retracted the claim

Evers

"Drug-related offenses make up as much as 75-85 percent of inmate populations" in Wisconsin

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, February 22nd, 2019

Mostly False

Starts might be slow, but revenue trending up

Fahy

As for recreational marijuana revenue projections, "we are seeing all those numbers reach disappointing levels in the states that have legalized. They’re not meeting their targets for the most part."

— PolitiFact New York on Monday, January 21st, 2019

Half-True

Data doesn't blame weed

Thomas Anderson

"If the experiences in Colorado and Washington are the experiences we have here, roadway deaths are going to go up, impaired driving is likely to go up."

— PolitiFact Vermont on Thursday, January 3rd, 2019

Mostly False

There's hundreds of studies involving marijuana

Baldwin

Says as a Schedule 1 drug, marijuana carries a designation that means it "should not be researched"

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, November 21st, 2018

Mostly False

Let's be blunt; no evidence of censorship

Baldwin

Says VA doctors are "censored from being able to talk to their patients" about marijuana, even in states where it is legal for medicinal use

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, November 9th, 2018