Eleanor Norton actually said...

"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."

"So what we've done in the District of Columbia is we have expanded the underground market for marijuana."

"Yet Congress has prohibited the District of Columbia from using its local funds to tax and regulate marijuana."