I met Rusty Williams on the first day of my session as a newly elected state Senator in West Virginia. I have an open door policy so he walked in, sat down and said he wanted to talk to me about medical marijuana. I will be the first to tell you that I didn’t know very much about it.
So I sat and I listened. I listened to him talk about his own personal story with cancer and how he attributed cannabis to saving his life. I heard him talk about the benefits that each state had seen after legalizing. I thought about my home state. In West Virginia, we are leading the nation in opioid deaths and addiction. We are one of the top five states for cancer. Our people are sick and addicted.
Before I was ever a Senator, I was a solider. I spent 24 years in the United States Army with four combat tours to Iraq and Afghanistan. Most of my life, I have thrived on a mission. When Rusty left my office that day, he had given me a mission.
After a few months of fighting and my bill nearly dying, medical marijuana was passed in the state of West Virginia.
Now, Attorney General Sessions wants to threaten our progress and the progress of 28 other states.
I fought for medical marijuana in the West Virginia legislature with a Republican super majority and won. I’m ready to take the same fight to Washington as the next congressman for West Virginia’s third congressional district.
It is beyond time to federally legalize medical cannabis, decriminalize it and move it to a Schedule 4 drug.
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