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Steve Cohen: “The DEA can use its emergency powers to temporarily schedule these substances while letting the scientific process play…”

On the recordDecember 7, 2011
The DEA can use its emergency powers to temporarily schedule these substances while letting the scientific process play out. Let's put science first and politics second. Let's defeat this bill. If we put science first and politics second, maybe we won't be in single figures in the public's mind as an organization that they support as an institution. Part of the 9 percent level is because we do things sometimes in a rush to judgment and politics and the issue du jour rather than allowing the scientific process and doing what is logically best for our Nation to prevail. I urge the defeat of this bill.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee
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Dec 7, 2011

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