"I believe it would be unwise for Congress to restrict the discretion of the Department to fund particular prosecutions, particularly in the midst of an historic drug epidemic and potentially long-term uptick in violent crime. The Department must be in a position to use all laws available to combat the transnational drug organizations and dangerous drug traffickers who threaten American lives."
How dare he call legal medical marijuana providers "transnational drug organizations and dangerous drug traffickers. In addition, if opiate use/deaths is really his concern, states with MMJ laws have less opiate use/deaths than states that don't.