Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, with acknowledgment of that point, I think many of us have a shared outcome and a shared goal here, which is to help people who are hurting. Right now, more than 40,000 people die in the United States of opioid overdoses annually. At least one in two PTSD patients cannot tolerate or do not respond adequately to existing treatment. We have promising indications that certain drugs that, frankly, are unjustly, in my opinion, placed on a schedule I list have promising outcomes for people who are suffering from PTSD, including our veterans. We have to have the research in order to develop these holistic, whole person treatments. That research deserves to be in the realm of the public. That research deserves to be eligible for public funding. A blanket, vague ban that was borne out of fear and the paranoia of the war on drugs should not be defining the limits of our ability to act responsibly today. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.”