Pols are rolling over for Big Pot, having learned nothing from opioids

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : The connection between marijuana and psychosis, for example, is about as well-attested as it is possible for any such relationship to be.
49% : Politicians faced with a difficult question shrug; law enforcement finds itself dealing with other priorities; spurious industry-funded studies are promoted -- and a media consensus is formed.
44% : It should come as no surprise that "Smoke Screen," Sabet's memoir of a career fighting against cannabis legalization published this year, received almost no media attention.
43% : Yet corporate America has moved on to promoting widespread use of another serious drug, marijuana, having apparently learned nothing from the opioid crisis.
43% : If everyone from chemists and executives in Big Pharma to federal regulators and law enforcement had followed the obvious warning signs, much of the chaos could have been forestalled.

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