Doublespeak: Watch FBI Director Admit Drug War has Failed then Promise to Continue It

Friday, March 3, 2017
By Paul Martin

John Vibes
TheFreeThoughtProject.com
March 3, 2017

In recent weeks, the federal government and the Trump administration have taken an extremely hostile stance towards legal marijuana, suggesting that they may begin a crackdown on states where the plant has been legalized. Attorney General Jeff Sessions even went so far as to say that marijuana is responsible for rising opiate use despite the statistics showing otherwise.

As the Free Thought Project has previously reported, a JAMA Internal Medicine study looked at ten years of data in all 50 states, concluding that states with medical cannabis laws had significantly lower rates of opioid overdose mortality.

Also, a second study has confirmed the powerful effect that medical cannabis has on reducing opioid abuse.

In 17 states with medical cannabis laws in place by 2013, the researchers “found that the use of prescription drugs for which marijuana could serve as a clinical alternative fell significantly, once a medical marijuana law was implemented.”

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