Science Calls Out Jeff Sessions on Medical Marijuana and the “Historic Drug Epidemic”
Science Calls Out Jeff Sessions on Medical Marijuana and the “Historic Drug Epidemic”
Dina Fine Maron | June 14, 2017
Amid a drug crisis that kills 91 people in the U.S. each day, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asked Congress to help roll back protections that have shielded medical marijuana dispensaries from federal prosecutors since 2014, according to a letter made public this week. Those legal controls—which bar Sessions’s Justice Department from funding crackdowns on the medical cannabis programs legalized by 29 states and Washington, D.C.—jeopardize the DoJ’s ability to combat the country’s “historic drug epidemic” and control dangerous drug traffickers, the attorney general wrote in the letter sent to lawmakers.
The catch, however, is that this epidemic is one of addiction and overdose deaths fueled by opioids—heroin, fentanyl and prescription painkillers—not marijuana. In fact, places where the U.S. has legalized medical marijuana have lower rates of opioid overdose deaths.
Science Calls Out Jeff Sessions on Medical Marijuana and the “Historic Drug Epidemic”
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