Robert DuPont and Jeff Sessions
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A adviser on marijuana policy to Attorney General Jeff Sessions wants to see doctors make drug testing a routine part of primary-care medicine and force some users into treatment against their will, he told The Daily Beast.
Dr. Robert DuPont was among a small group of drug-policy experts invited to a closed-door meeting with Sessions last month to discuss federal options for dealing with the rapid liberalization of state marijuana laws. California became the sixth state to allow the sale of marijuana for recreational use on Jan. 1.
DuPont, 81, is one of the most influential drug warriors of the past century. He began his career as a liberal on drug control in the 1970s, calling then for the decriminalization of marijuana possession and launching the first U.S. methadone treatment program for heroin in Washington, D.C. in 1971. By the 1980s, he shifted to the right, popularizing the claim marijuana was a “gateway drug.”
At the December 2017 meeting with Sessions, DuPont was slated to present on […]
One of the many books in my personal library is written by Clint Werner and is titled: “Marijuana – Gateway to Health”; subtitled How Cannabis Protects us from Cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease”. Cr. Andrew Weil, M.D. who is a holistic practitioner says about this book: “This book should be required reading for all medical professionals, elected officials, and everyone interested in health and wellness”. This book is full of scientific studies which can be found on PubMed.com, where all scientific studies are found, and if one looks at them they would know that all of the studies show the positive effects of the substance called “Marijuana”, and none of them show any negative effects. Sessions and his pals should be forced to read this book and the published research before making another huge mistake in the obsolete “War on Drugs”. By the way, many other Doctors agree with Werner and everything in his great book. Alcohol is by far a much more dangerous “drug” than Cannabis, yet it is legal. Alcohol killed my biological Father, as well as my best friend; and they would be alive today if they had the choice of using Cannabis instead of alcohol. Cannabis has never killed anyone. Maybe Sessions just wants to fill up his private prisons, while taking away those people’s right to vote in the process. What a sad state of affairs it is to see such blind people leading our country and leading us citizens over a political, and moral cliff.
I am sure this has nothing to do with the FDA approval of synthetic cannabis for the big pharma drug cartel. I am almost looking forward to this confrontation because it will make it incredibly obvious how critical it is to return to states rights and better yet decentralize governance altogether. The federal government is an authoritarian criminal enterprise and if you vote in federal elections you are complicit.