A Republican congressman notorious for blocking federal marijuana reform nearly derailed a “historic” Capitol Hill hearing on federal legalization Tuesday when he compared the MJ industry to slavery, comments other lawmakers decried as “offensive.”
During a House of Representatives subcommittee hearing in which lawmakers from both major parties mostly extolled legalization and called for federal reform, U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, – who regularly blocked marijuana reform bills as chair of the House Rules committee from 2013 to 2019 – also offered a preview of the anti-legalization arguments likely to be heard during the next Congress and in statehouses across the country.
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Sessions connected legalization to traffic fatalities and high-THC products to health problems, and studies examining both were introduced into the record.
But Sessions drew bipartisan criticism for a “patently offensive” comment in which he drew an analogy between the industry and slavery.
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