Can Coloradans purchase their new-fangled recreational marijuana with food stamps?
The Associated Press calls it “an urban myth.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s guidance appears pretty explicit in forbidding anything like the procurement of narcotics, even legal ones, with government benefits. But Fox News is still sounding the siren that taxpayer dollars could be paying for people to smoke up.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=212034