The first-ever White House drug czar says that while he loves President Donald Trump and “almost everything he does,” that affection doesn’t extend to the pending proposal to federally reschedule marijuana, which he described as a “gateway drug” that’s harming youth.
William Bennett, who served as education secretary under former President Ronald Reagan before becoming the first director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), told Fox News Digital that cannabis “clouds focus and attention, which you obviously should have if you’re going to school.”
“So it clouds that, it interferes with that, it inhibits that. It is also the gateway drug. It leads to the use of other drugs,” he said. “Almost anybody who uses a so-called ‘more dangerous’ drug than marijuana has entered through the portal called marijuana.”
“I love Donald Trump. I love almost everything he does, but I don’t love this.”
Although Bennett said it’s possible to “concede the fact that marijuana can have some positive effects,” people can “at the same time understand that it’s, on the whole, a negative.”
Marijuana is “massively destructive of attention and focus among young people,” he said. “If you combine the dropout rate, the fact that attendance
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