One of the senators leading the fight to legalize marijuana in Congress joked that the federal government might need to step in and enact restrictions on a more addictive substance: french fries from McDonald’s.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who has sponsored several bills to remove cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), said that “I am the leader in the Senate for descheduling marijuana, but we should schedule McDonald’s french fries.”
“I don’t know what they put on them,” he said. “I think it is an illegal substance.”
The senator’s comments came at an event late last month where he was promoting his new book, “Stand.”
Booker was telling a story about his relationship with his driver, who has been with him since he served as mayor of Newark, New Jersey.
“We’ve been in the car together for, God, 20 years, and we don’t have to speak to each other. He can just look in the rearview mirror and sense that I’m in one of those moments where I’ve got to do work, I got to read documents, whatever,” Booker said. “And so he, as we get ready to pass this McDonald’s, he looks in the rearview mirror and immediately,
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