Mark Souder: “it is hard to believe, at a time when this entire Nation is abuzz about what kind of moral leadership is coming out of…”

“it is hard to believe, at a time when this entire Nation is abuzz about what kind of moral leadership is coming out of Washington, that we even have to consider this resolution. In my hometown in Fort Wayne and throughout northeast Indiana and throughout this country, kids are dying in the streets, they are dying in automobile wrecks, they are getting shot down as innocent bystanders in drug wars, most of which started in some kind of combination of cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana. We have seen a lowering in attitudes about the positive usage of cigarettes. We need to make more gains on alcohol. But we have seen a reversal in the trends on marijuana, partly because the leaders of our country have not spoken out as strongly. The last thing we need in this House are Members of Congress using the word simultaneously with medicinal use of marijuana when what they actually mean is a component inside marijuana, THC, and giving the implication that somehow this is a medicine, at a time when young people are becoming more lax in their attitudes and in their usage.”