Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, it is great to be here. I got a kick out of the gentleman from Tennessee showing his age. He is talking about pot when it was 2 percent THC. He is thinking pot is still this drug where people get goofy and they eat Cheetos and nacho cheese Doritos. He is not talking about the 99 percent THC pot that is being sold in some of these States where they have legalized recreational pot. I think that is really fun and anachronistic; very good to go back and think about how things were in the late 1960s, early 1970s. Let's talk about a Mother Jones article that I have before me where they are analyzing the use of pot, and they are talking about, hey, look, this is what happens, you start seeing paranoia and psychosis come in. They are referring to New Zealand studies, long-term longitudinal studies about the dangers of pot. That is interesting. We are not going to even talk about that because we don't have time to talk about that because we are focusing here on descheduling marijuana. What that does is that incentivizes marijuana use and distribution. But this bill is also reckless in its approach. It provides no limits on or requirements to clearly identify the potency of marijuana or its extracts or concentrates. In 1995, for instance, the THC concentration was about 4 percent on average. Today, it goes between 20 and 99 percent. It also doesn't deal with what the Surgeon General says needs to be the case, that the minimum age limit should be age 25.…”