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Title: Jeff Sessions: Marijuana Is “Only Slightly Less Awful” Than Heroin
Source: Boston Magazine
URL Source: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blo
Published: Mar 15, 2017
Author: Spencer Buell
Post Date: 2017-03-15 21:58:51 by Gatlin
Keywords: None
Views: 802
Comments: 6

The new Attorney General has pot advocates in Massachusetts on edge.

Jeff Sessions, the U.S. Attorney General, had some typically harsh words about marijuana today, at a time when legal pot supporters in Massachusetts and elsewhere are on high alert over how the new government will treat the drug.

In prepared remarks for a speech to law enforcement in Richmond today, he outlined his stance on marijuana use, which he has long opposed, saying that “dependency” on it is “only slightly less awful” than heroin.

I realize this may be an unfashionable belief in a time of growing tolerance of drug use. But too many lives are at stake to worry about being fashionable. I reject the idea that America will be a better place if marijuana is sold in every corner store. And I am astonished to hear people suggest that we can solve our heroin crisis by legalizing marijuana – so people can trade one life-wrecking dependency for another that’s only slightly less awful. Our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs will destroy your life.

To that end, he continued, he said he supports a renewed drug awareness campaign on the “terrible truth about drugs”, like the ones rolled out decades ago.

In the ’80s and ’90s, we saw how campaigns stressing prevention brought down drug use and addiction. We can do this again. Educating people and telling them the terrible truth about drugs and addiction will result in better choices. We can reduce the use of drugs, save lives and turn back the surge in crime that inevitably follows in the wake of increased drug abuse.

His full remarks are available here.

This is, needless to say, an extreme take. It’s true that a portion of marijuana users develop a dependency on the drug, and researchers have found evidence of withdrawal symptoms among heavy users who stop. But the rate of addiction is much lower than it is for habitual abusers of alcohol or tobacco, and using marijuana is known to be much less dangerous than either of those legal vices.

Opioid overdoses killed nearly 2,000 people last year in Massachusetts alone. Addiction to painkillers and other opioid products can set in fast, it’s a perplexingly difficult addiction to beat, and use of heroin in the region has become even more dangerous amid the rise of a new, highly concentrated drug called fentanyl. You can’t overdose on marijuana.

Among other medical applications, marijuana can be used to treat chronic pain, as a substitute for addictive painkilling drugs, and areas with greater access to medical marijuana appear to have reduced levels of opioid abuse.

Sessions also told reporters on Monday he thinks “medical marijuana has been hyped, maybe too much.”

While he has sent signals he sees merit in Obama-era guidelines on priorities for drug enforcement, Sessions on Wednesday did not address the big question on the minds of Massachusetts pro-cannabis activists, pot entrepreneurs, and regulators: Will he oversee a crackdown on recreational marijuana shops and medical marijuana dispensaries, which still technically violate federal law?

In a statement today, pot proponent Jim Borghesani, spokesman for the campaign that legalized recreational marijuana use in Massachusetts, called Sessions’ remarks “absurd and contemptible,” and said he remains on edge about the future but “cautiously optimistic” that Trump will leave the state’s soon-to-be-budding marijuana industry alone:

Sessions’ archaic sentiments on marijuana are absurd and contemptible, but the larger trouble area is his ability to put DOJ resources to work counteracting voter-approved policy in legal states. So far I’ve seen no official indication from Sessions or President Trump of such action. So, I remain cautiously optimistic that Trump is going to honor his campaign rhetoric about letting states determine their approach to marijuana policy.

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#1. To: Gatlin (#0)

Jeff Sessions: Marijuana Is “Only Slightly Less Awful” Than Heroin

Sessions is absolutely correct.

rlk  posted on  2017-03-15   23:05:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: rlk (#1)

Sessions is absolutely correct.

I don't think there's any comparison between the two. I don't advocate recreational use of cannabis, but comparing it to heroin is, I think, like comparing a kitchen knife to a chain saw.

Pinguinite  posted on  2017-03-16   1:23:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Gatlin (#0)

"but the larger trouble area is his ability to put DOJ resources to work counteracting voter-approved policy in legal states."

That's a larger trouble area? Enforcing federal law?

I'll give you a larger trouble area -- states that pass laws contrary to federal law in violation of the U.S. Constitution, Article VI, Clause 2.

misterwhite  posted on  2017-03-16   11:32:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: rlk (#1)

Jeff Sessions: Marijuana Is “Only Slightly Less Awful” Than Heroin

Sessions is absolutely correct.

Have any idea when your mind is coming back from vacation,Robert?

BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO!

ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION!

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.

sneakypete  posted on  2017-03-16   21:38:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: sneakypete (#4)

Have any idea when your mind is coming back from vacation,Robert?

My mind doesn't go on vacation.

rlk  posted on  2017-03-17   1:39:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: rlk (#5)

My mind doesn't go on vacation.

Then maybe you should consider giving it one?

BOYCOTT PAYPAL AND CLOSE YOUR PP ACCOUNTS NOW! ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO SO,TOO!

ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION!

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

American Indians had open borders. Look at how well that worked out for them.

sneakypete  posted on  2017-03-17   9:14:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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