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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie really, really hates cannabis. As the head of Donald Trump’s White House commission on opioids, Christie has done little to stop the spread of prescription painkillers and heroin, but has continued at every turn to demonize marijuana, ignoring piles of data that suggest cannabis could be the missing link in helping America curb its insatiable appetite for opioids.
According to Fox’s Indianapolis affiliate, Christie once again put his foot in his mouth when his keynote address to Indiana’s annual prescription drug symposium. His remarks quickly turned from a rebuke of the pharmaceutical industry and a call for increased availability to overdose reversal drugs, to a diatribe against legalized marijuana.
To start his address, Christie actually offered useful bits of wisdom to the crowd of politicians and medical professionals, including a push to train doctors to prescribe painkillers more judiciously and for the pharmaceutical industry to develop less dangerous drugs.
“The people who are dying today in large measure are dying because we refused to acknowledge the problem we created,”…
