09/12/2023
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"If, in fact, you're going to possess--if a jurisdiction is going to possess marijuana, should it not at least have the opportunity to keep marijuana out of the hands of children?"
"I worry that making a substance widely available and legal increases acceptance of it and increases use among youth."
"Yet Congress has prohibited the District of Columbia from using its local funds to tax and regulate marijuana."
"I thought the President had begun in a bipartisan way himself when early on he said he thought that we should--and here I'm quoting him, show great compassion about the opioid epidemic."