A Kennedy Wants To Be The Next ‘Drug Czar’ And He’s Already Drawing Fire
Patrick Kennedy is the cofounder of Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM), a well-known adversary of cannabis reform.
A quick read of his bio reveals that Ted’s youngest boy, Patrick Kennedy, might be a good choice for a leading role in developing drug policy that a new administration needs. But there’s a piece of that policy that looks to be especially problematic for Kennedy the piece dealing with cannabis.
It’s this part of drug policy that has all sorts of trap doors that the new administration doesn’t want to fall into. It regards the workings of an entirely new cash crop industry making billions of dollars growing and selling what is still an illegal drug.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) will propose legalizing marijuana for recreational purposes and regulating it to capture hundreds of millions in revenue as part of his annual state budget.
As Overdoses Surge, Biden Blocks Hasty Effort to Expand Addiction Treatment
Susan Stevens shows off a prescription for Suboxone at her home in Lewisville, North Carolina, on March 11, 2019.
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On the campaign trail, President Joe Biden pledged to tackle the opioid crisis and remove federal restrictions on buprenorphine, a lifesaving treatment for opioid addiction. So far, the Biden administration has surprised doctors and addiction experts by moving in the opposite direction.
The Biden administration recently blocked an effort to expand access to buprenorphine, a drug the Biden campaign correctly called a “gold standard” for treating opioid addiction. Major medicalassociations and public health advocates who had applauded the effort, which came in the final days of the Trump administration, were left disappointed by Biden. On Wednesday, the White House said lifting restrictions on addiction medications remains a prio
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Watchdog groups and Democratic lawmakers have raised concerns about Trump officials’ records management.
The National Archives and Records Administration is still completing the transfer of records from the Trump White House amid concerns that officials did not adequately preserve them.
The agency said it received approximately 4,700 cubic feet of textual records (roughly 11.8 million pages) and expects to take in up to 500 terabytes of electronic records for documents that fall under the Presidential Records Act. For comparison, the George W. Bush White House had about 29,000 cubic feet of textual records and about 80 terabytes of electronic records and Obama had about 15,000 cubic feet of textual records and about 250 terabytes of electronic ones. Documents can start to be made public five years after a president leaves office and will eventually be housed in a presidential library.