OR Rep Blumenauer verbally destroys US Deputy Director of Drug Policy (!!) -- VIDEO

[Ruby the Liberal]

OMG - I have a new favorite House Rep.

Witness Oregon Representative Earl Blumenauer shred the US Deputy Director of Drug Policy for our decades long policy of the failed Just Say No campaign telling people that "pot = heroin = equally bad, so just abstain".

Our young people today are way less likely to smoke tobacco or drink, but are experimenting with heroin of all things (!) and in alarming numbers. Allow me to paraphrase his anger/frustration at this equivocation:

The kids know you are full of shit and the parents know you are full of shit - and this is why we are failing.

If a joint is "just as" dangerous as a needle, why not give both a try, right?

Deputy Director tried to justify that he was responding to the concerns of parents who had lost a child to a drug overdose - but that was Representative Blumenauer's point from his opening remarks - our current federal policy equivocates drugs that cannot be OD'd on (cannabis) as being equally dangerous to those that can - so what is deterring them from trying it all?

This video is a keeper for me as a reminder about the criticality of the drug awareness and education messaging that needs to be out there - whether MMJ is legal in the state or not. Dude nailed it.

Bravo Sir, Bravo.