Tom Cotton: Change to marijuana drug classification 'a step in the wrong direction' [View all]

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Thursday criticized the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) decision to downgrade state-approved medical marijuana to a less dangerous drug.

“Marijuana today is much more potent than just ten or twenty years ago, leading to increased psychosis, anti-social behavior, and fatal car crashes,” Cotton wrote on the social platform X.

“Arkansans don’t want more dangerous drugs obtained more easily,” he continued. “A change to marijuana’s drug classification is a step in the wrong direction.”

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an order on Thursday morning to reclassify marijuana from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s strictest Section I regulatory level to the lower Section III classification.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cotton-change-marijuana-drug-classification-191116975.html

Cotton must have watched Reefer Madness too many times.