What Jeff Sessions Gets Wrong About Marijuana
Medical use of cannabis is officially accepted -- and is helping to limit opioid abuse.
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Drug abuse is devastating American society. Opioid overdose alone killed more than 33,000 people in 2015. But rather than address this public-health crisis, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has declared a new war on drugs. He has re-introduced mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes and has asked Congress to let him spend money to prosecute people and businesses behaving in accordance with their states' medical marijuana laws.
Clearly, Sessions is out of step with the scientific consensus regarding the medical effectiveness of cannabis.