Jamie Raskin actually said...

the cost and the harms of criminalizing alcohol were far worse than giving people the right to make their own choices about their lives.

Cannabis must be decriminalized at the Federal level as a matter of basic justice in the country.

Regardless of personal or moral perspectives, the Federal prohibition of cannabis is bad public policy.

Well, it makes political sense in the sense that he has exercised almost total control over the Republican Party up until now.