Steve Cohen Quotes
I strongly recommend that this Administration allow states that have chosen to legalize medical marijuana to enact strong regulations without fear of prosecution... Especially if we believe that, as Justice Brandeis said, states are the 'laboratories of democracy,' we should not interfere with the will of the people to enact these compassionate laws
Steve Cohen, U. S. Congressman (Democrat, TN), Letter to the Director of the National Drug Control Policy September 12, 2011
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He was also a paid lobbyist for the beer industry.
Reacting to calls to legalize drugs.
Perry was an extreme right wing law and order conservative, but like many extreme rightists had a streak of libertatrianism.
PTSD is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. DEA is the Drug Enforcement Administration.
The DEA is the Drug Enforcement Administration.
The judge, at the time was only summarizing the science evidence for the physiological safety of the drug in its natural grown state at that time. Unfortunately drug dealers have learned to extract the active ingredient, THC, and produce marijuana, much more potent than the 1988 variety. Nor did the judge address the behavioral consequence of extensive marijuana use where we know now that some people who get into extensive marijuana smoking tend to have negative consequences for ability to study, concentrate on operating machinery, develop a personal relationship and the like. The extent to which The more potent marijuana represents a physiological health risk ( as opposed to psychological) however is not as well known for lack of research of what the effects are because the government has refused to allow marijuana to be used in experiments nor have they funded any of their own studies. As of 2011 there has been no study that demonstrates serious physiological harm.
A Saskatchewan school, Wawota Parkland, had suspended a student, Kieran King, who argued that alcohol was much more dangerous than marijuana and then advocated a walkout in support of free speech. The school had barred the doors preventing the walkout and called the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to “assess the threat” that King’s position posed to the school and community. King was suspended for 3 days but the school chose the days of his exams and would not allow him to retake them driving his grades from A’s to D’s. There was of course no threat, and actually what King was saying was scientifically correct. King was further motivated because a close relative had been killed by a drunken driver.
Stephen Ira Cohen is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative from Tennessee's 9th congressional district since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes the western three-fourths of Memphis. Cohen is Tennessee's first Jewish congressman.
