Last Thursday, the head of the White House’s drug policy office was asked about cannabis, CBD and racial inequities in treatment access during a congressional appearance.
When asked about his stance, Rep. Jim Jorden, Republican out of Ohio responded:
The sheriff flatly said he was “1,000 percent” against it and peddled a gateway drug theory, claiming that parents have told him that their children were referred to other drug dealers after seeking out cannabis and began taking “coke and heroin and other things.”
He continued.
What we’ve seen is that the marijuana we have today is nothing like what it was when I was a kid, when I was in high school,” he said. “Back then the THC, the ingredient in marijuana that makes you high, was in the teens in terms of the percentage. Now what we’re seeing is twice that, three times that, in the plant.”
He added that edible marijuana can have THC levels as high as 90 percent and said that, at this point, the government doesn’t understand how such products impact health.
Watch more of last weeks response to the Trump administration comment on the drug crisis.