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FORMER BIDEN CABINET MEMBER IS ‘CONCERNED’ ABOUT MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION

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A former U.S. labor secretary who previously served as mayor of Boston as
Massachusetts’s marijuana legalization law came into effect, spoke out against
what he described as a “slippery slope” of cannabis reform during a C-SPAN
interview this week.

Marty Walsh, who also discussed his own substance use disorder and recovery in
the interview, said he’s “worried” about legalization efforts and gets
“concerned about where we’re headed there.”

Asked how he felt about his state’s move to legalize, the former Biden cabinet
member replied: “I didn’t love it. When I was mayor of Boston, I fought it. I
get concerned. I think it’s a slippery slope.”

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Walsh, who opposed the 2016 ballot initiative to legalize marijuana in his state
and later voted against a proposed Democratic National Committee party plank to
endorse cannabis legalization in 2020, noted that advocates at first seemed to
want to decriminalize marijuana, then later pushed legalize it for medical uses.

“And now you have marijuana” legal for adults, he added. “And I’m just worried,
you know. You have have some places in the country trying to legalize it and
opioids. I get concerned about that. I just get concerned about where we’re
headed there.”



Later in the interview, he claimed that “alcohol deaths are higher than,
actually, opioid deaths at this point in our country,” and argued that
manufacturers of dangerous or impairing substances should be liable for costs of
therapy and recovery.




Opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma, he said, “enraged me and lots of people with
what they got away with.”

“When you think about advertising for alcohol, or marijuana now, when you put an
advertisement on a train…you’re targeting young people,” Walsh said. “You
already have the 25 year old. You don’t have to put a fancy thing there for an
ad for alcohol for a 25 year old. But you’re targeting younger people. We have
to be sensitive to all that, and I think that in some of these cases, these
companies who are responsible for the devastation they’re causing should be
paying some money into fix that devastation.”



Despite opposing legalization of marijuana generally, Walsh nevertheless was
supportive of President Joe Biden’s pardons of people with low-level federal
marijuana offenses on their records. In 2022, he pledged to work diligently to
make sure people who were pardoned saw relief.

“I commend the president for his actions,” he said at the time. “We’re going to
work with [those who were pardoned] to make sure that they can get into good
employment—that this is not an impediment to their ability to get into the
middle class and get a good-paying job.”

Though Walsh continues to oppose legalization nearly eight years after
Massachusetts adopted the reform, a recent poll found that 65 percent of Bay
State residents think the decision to legalize cannabis was the right move.

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