Progressive: Joe Kennedy III, picked for Dem response to SOTU, voted to allow the DEA to arrest and prosecute medical cannabis patients, voted three times against improving veteran access to medical cannabis, and even voted against kids using non-psychoac

On Tuesday night, Congressman Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts will deliver the official Democratic response to President Trump’s State of the Union address. Some observers see the young Kennedy, 37, as a rising political star. But he is starkly out of step with his party — and a majority of U.S. voters — on a key issue now emerging at the forefront of mainstream American politics: Marijuana.