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A cannabis policy advisor to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is attempting to bring draconian drug testing rules and forced addiction treatment to every American doctor’s office, using a drug policy meeting with the nation’s top cop to suggest a plan that would turn all of the country’s physicians into de-facto narcotics officers.
Dr. Robert DuPont, a former drug czar to Presidents Nixon and Ford and the inventor of the since-debunked but still wildly popular “gateway drug” theory, was front and center at AG Sessions’ closed-doors cannabis policy meeting last month, and according to an in-depth interview with the Daily Beast, recommended policy shifts to both increase drug testing and force addicts into treatment — a policy that he calls “the opposite of harm reduction.”
At the secretive December meeting, DuPont was tapped to present on the dangers of drugged driving, an issue that has gained national attention in the years since cannabis legalization began taking hold across the country. But while most cannabis-specific DUI responses have focused on developing accurate roadside testing tools and educational campaigns…
