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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 "Lives Are at Stake": GOP Senator Suggests Marijuana Can Be Deadly 🌿"Lives Are at Stake": GOP Senator Suggests Marijuana Can Be Deadly
A U.S. senator on Thursday connected President Barack Obama’s comments on marijuana to drug overdose deaths.
Amid a lengthy speech calling for increased penalties for drug offenders, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) noted that Obama had admitted to smoking marijuana. Last year, the president said that marijuana is not more dangerous than alcohol.
“I think it needs to be said that the president should never have said smoking marijuana is like smoking cigarettes: ‘Oh, I wish I hadn’t done it,’ Sessions said on the Senate floor. “That is the kind of message people hear. Now we have states legalizing it, and they are already talking about recriminalizing it. It is a mistake. We have seen that experiment before. Lives are at stake.”
The Republican senator linked marijuana to fatal overdoses — even though experts say it is impossible to die from consuming too much of the drug.
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