Taylor West, Deputy Director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, told Cannabis Now the Congresswoman’s arguments “don’t make any sense” given the gateway drug argument so often levied against cannabis is an idea that “has been roundly debunked by research.”

“It is even more unconscionable that Congresswoman Schultz would use these fundamentally wrong arguments to deny patients legal access to the therapeutic benefits of medical marijuana,” West said.

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