Political Quotes

“Those aren't my words. Those are the words of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, which opposes this legislation. This bill is making an additional set of products illegal that will further encourage illegal behavior that is already occurring and difficult to combat. Madam Speaker, where does this stop? We are all for stopping children from having access to these products. We did that with T21. It is now law. We have legislation--bipartisanly passed in the House, pending in the Senate--to require age verification at point of sale and delivery of tobacco products so that we really get boundaries around these products getting into the hands of youth. But if you are going to ban flavored tobacco products but not flavored marijuana products, are you going to ban flavored alcohol products? We know childhood obesity is an epidemic. Are we going to go down that path as well and ban products adults use but tell kids they can't have a candy bar? I mean, where does this end? I led an effort when I was student body president in high school to get smoking out of the bathrooms. I went to the school board, and we actually created a smoking area outside that required parental permission, a permit, and a fee. That was the 1970s. It was an amazing, revolutionary thing. Thankfully, a few years later, they got rid of the whole thing, but I got tired of using the bathroom only to find my friends smoking in there and lighting fires in the trash cans.…”