Weed Hating Trump Surrogates Revive Flawed 'Gateway Drug' Claim

Senator Jeff Sessions, a Republican that represents Alabama, is decidedly not chill when it comes to legalized weed. It’s going to be a huge problem for legalization advocates if he becomes Attorney General, as he is poised to do, not least because his emphatic statements about drug use are entirely unsupported by science. Has nobody told this guy that the ‘gateway drug’ argument has been repeatedly refuted by research?

Then again, this is the guy who’s been called a “nightmare for drug policy reform” by the Drug Policy Alliance and has stated that “good people don’t smoke marijuana.” This conservative is no Rand Paul, and he appears to have no respect for the scientific data available on marijuana.

Sessions, who, according to a past employee, allegedly said that he thought the KKK was all right “until he learned that they smoked marijuana”, has an opinion on bud that...

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