Four of the seven top-tier gubernatorial candidates won’t say whether they’ve recreationally smoked marijuana, according to a USA TODAY NETWORK-Tennessee survey.
Among the seven candidates, only Knoxville entrepreneur Randy Boyd, a Republican, said he tried marijuana.
“Randy says as a teenager he tried it one time when marijuana was being passed around during a ZZ Top concert,” said Laine Arnold, a spokeswoman for Boyd’s campaign.
The four other candidates — Republicans Bill Lee, a Williamson County businessman, and House Speaker Beth Harwell, and Democrats Karl Dean, the former mayor of Nashville, and House Minority Leader Craig Fitzhugh — twice declined to answer the survey about whether they tried marijuana.
While all five Republicans said they were opposed to recreational marijuana neither Dean or Fitzhugh answered a question about it.
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