"Well, let's see. again, I'm always looking for common ground, and, you know, one of the things within the judiciary committee I'm hoping we can find some common ground on is marijuana policy.”
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"Unfortunately we've got an attorney general in the country who wants to turn the clock back, you know, 30 or 40 years in terms of marijuana policies. that's an example of an issue where the vast majority of the public thinks the war on drugs as applied to marijuana has been a miserable failure. marijuana prohibition has been at least as brutal and counterproductive as liquor prohibition was. it also should be returned to the states and lots of different states are going in different directions on it. most states have said people can use medical marijuana if they've got a disease like multiple sclerosis or aids or cancer, what have you. a bunch of them saying we're decriminalizing, a bunch are saying we're going to legalize regulate and tax it. the attorney general wants to clamp down on it and wipe it out. i'm hoping -- I know we've got some libertarian republicans who are with the progressive democrats in saying leave the states alone. that's a place we can get into the details with very practical policy problem that is affecting millions of people across the country, but you see it's a split within the republican party because there is the authoritarian wing represented by attorney general sessions and i think trump on this, and then there are the younger more libertarian members who really do see that that is totally dysfunctional, counterproductive policy. It's a war against our own people. the only ones benefiting are the organized crime gangs and the syndicates because it inflates the price of the drugs. It's something that some conservative economists figured out a long time ago, like, you know, William F. Buckley who was for, you know, deregulating marijuana and legalizing it decades ago."
https://www.c-span.org/video/?441120-1/representatives-raskin-brat-bipartisanship&start=1498
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