Buzzkill Jeff Sessions Goes On Anti-Weed Tirade
March 1, 2017
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as posted by the channelJeff Sessions vows to ruin more lives than ever in order to protect people from the ravages of pot. Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"Attorney General Jeff Sessions offered a dark view of America's crime problem Tuesday, suggesting that increasing access to heroin and marijuana has put the country at risk of returning to the drug-fueled violence that ravaged the country more than a generation ago.
Despite data showing that murder is at its lowest in decades, Sessions seized on a recent uptick in violent crime and warned state law enforcement officials gathered here that the numbers were "driving this sense that we are in danger.''
"Now, we are at a time, it seems to me, that crime is going back up again,'' Sessions told the National Association of Attorneys General. "Maybe we got a bit overconfident.''
The new attorney general said that he had been "shocked'' by the waves of overdose deaths attributed to heroin and its synthetic form fentanyl that continue to cut a particularly deadly swath through the northeast and Midwest.
He also cited the increased legalization of marijuana, an issue he long railed against while an Alabama senator, as contributing to a culture of acceptance.
"I'm not sure we're going to be a better, healthier nation if (marijuana) is being sold from every corner grocery store,'' he said.
"We don't need to be legalizing marijuana, and we need to be cracking down on heroin.’’"*
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Hosts: Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola
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