{"id":13808,"date":"2010-02-28T13:18:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T20:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=13808"},"modified":"2010-02-28T13:18:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T20:18:53","slug":"turner-says-statements-on-drug-use-aren%e2%80%99t-contradictory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/02\/turner-says-statements-on-drug-use-aren%e2%80%99t-contradictory\/","title":{"rendered":"Turner says statements on drug use aren\u2019t contradictory"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Doug Turner (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n

Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Turner<\/a> recently said on the Jim Villanucci show on 770 KKOB-AM in Albuquerque that he has never used cocaine or any other \u201chard\u201d drug.<\/p>\n

Days later, he told NMPolitics.net<\/a> through a spokesman that he had used marijuana \u201cbetween high school and college\u201d but had never used any other illegal drugs.<\/p>\n

Turner said Saturday in an interview that the two statements aren\u2019t contradictory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think cocaine, if I\u2019m not mistaken, is classified as a category 1 narcotic controlled substance, so I would put that in a hard drug category. I certainly don\u2019t support the use of marijuana, but I don\u2019t put it in the same category as cocaine,\u201d Turner said.<\/p>\n

Here is the full statement Turner gave to NMPolitics.net last week when asked if he had ever used any illegal drug:<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried marijuana between high school and college,\u201d Turner said in an e-mail sent via his campaign spokesman, Stephen Dinkel. Turner said he has never used any other illegal drug.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a partial transcript of Turner\u2019s conversation with Villanucci:<\/p>\n

Villanucci<\/strong>: \u201cAny cocaine or hard drugs in your past?\u201d<\/p>\n

Turner<\/strong>: \u201cNo. None. I have \u2013\u201d<\/p>\n

Villanucci:<\/strong> \u201cYou drink?\u201d<\/p>\n

Turner:<\/strong> \u201cI, sure, I enjoy a glass of wine. I\u2019m not a big cocktail drinker. You know, I have a, I have a, I have a great family, I have a, you know, when I\u2019m not campaigning, I get to spend more time with my kids and my wife, but otherwise, you know, I\u2019ve got a speeding ticket if anyone was doing opposition research against me\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Turner said Saturday that Villanucci was firing questions at him fairly quickly during the interview. He said he intended to follow his statement about not having used cocaine or hard drugs with a statement about having used marijuana, but Villanucci cut him off by asking if he drank.<\/p>\n

You can listen to Villanucci\u2019s entire interview<\/a> with Turner. Villanucci\u2019s question about whether Turner has ever done cocaine or hard drugs comes 31:53 into the recording.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Turner says he has never used cocaine or other “hard” drugs but did use marijuana – which he does not place in the same category as cocaine – “between high school and college.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[108,107],"class_list":["post-13808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}