Greg Walden actually said...

"We appreciate the hearing today because we will finally have an opportunity to review initiates aimed at improving federally sanctioned research on cannabis."

"I appreciate the many steps that industry has taken to not only recognize and take responsibility for this issue..."

"Descheduling cannabis is a step too far and a step I cannot support because descheduling removes it from the Controlled Substances Act and cuts the DEA completely out of the picture."

"The INFO Act was designed to meet a specific need of local stakeholders who were telling us that despite Congress having devoted record numbers of federal dollars to combat the opioid crisis, they had..."