Political Quotes

“There is an element that the Senator from Wisconsin may not be aware of. When a drug is on schedule I, it is prohibited to do research on it. That is the reason why we are running into problems with cannabis, now legal in my State and maybe in your State as well. And I raised the basic question: Are the health claims about cannabis true or false? And they said: We cannot research it because it is on the list of prohibited drugs in the United States. The problem is, if we put all of these analogs on the list, it is going to stop the research that we need to finish. It is a catch-22. What we have tried to do is a temporary extension saying: Give us the final word. We have got to make a decision. I do not quarrel with you in any way about the danger of fentanyl, but the people who do this for a living--and I can't keep up with their conversations, by and large--have explained to me: We are trying to find a good use of a fentanyl analog. Don't close the door, slam the door, by putting it on schedule I because research stops.”