Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the Senator from Wall Street, joined by Cory Booker (NJ) and Ron Wyden (OR), called a press conference yesterday to announce that they have drafted a bill to legalize marijuana nationally.
Schumer hailed the release of his bill as “monumental… a big day in the Senate,” because for the first time, the Senate majority leader and Chairman of the Finance Committee (Wyden), had teamed up, with that “champion for justice and equity” Booker, to legalize drugs. Schumer bragged that he was “the first Democratic leader to come out for the legalization of marijuana,” and promised to “use my clout as majority leader to make this a priority in the Senate.”
Where this is heading was demonstrated in the House of Representatives last week, when two Democratic Congresswomen introduced a bill to legalize “personal use” of ALL drugs. That bill was written by the Drug Policy Alliance, George Soros’s lead drug lobby. What role Soros’s team played in the Senate bill is not known.
These steps to legalize drug use as something normal, with its devastating message to American children that in the United States “any and everything goes,” came on the same day that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released provisional data which showed that drug overdose deaths in the United States hit a stunning record high: an estimated 93,331 deaths, nearly 30% higher than 2019’s already-shocking 72,151 deaths.
The leading cause of overdose death is the synthetic opioid, fentanyl, which is 50 times more potent than heroin. The CDC is expected to report preliminary life-expectancy data next week, with overdose-deaths projected as a significant factor in driving down life expectancy in the U.S., the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.
Yet the “Drug Policy Reform Act” introduced into the House would legalize fentanyl, using the delusional lie that prosecution of drug use brings more suffering to poor communities than the mass death being inflicted by drug use.
