Indopedia All Things Marijuana
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly may have gotten a bit ahead of himself earlier this week, when he told a portion of the American public sitting at home watching “Meet the Press” that marijuana was “not a factor” in the War on Drugs.
Perhaps he didn’t consider his comments would soon spread across the Internet like wildfire and be covered by virtually every major news organization across the nation.
Nevertheless, it appears that Kelly’s running of the mouth may have steamed his boss over at of the Justice Department, who just so happens to be pot-hating U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, because by Tuesday morning, the retired Marine general was more than eager to do some serious backpedaling concerning his stance on marijuana.
“Let me be clear about marijuana. It is a potentially dangerous gateway drug that frequently leads to the use of harder drugs,” Kelly said during a speech at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. “Its use and possession is against federal law and until the law is changed by the United States Congress, we in DHS, along with the rest of the federal government, are sworn to uphold all the laws that are on the…
