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Mormon Church interference in the Utah medical marijuana initiative runs counter to Church's own teaching; Colorado no-gay-cakes baker now opposes pot cakes for religious reasons; DJ Muggs from Cypress Hill on the Int'l Cannabis Business Conference in Por

SPECIAL: Russ replays every speech he has delivered onstage at the Seattle Hempfest (since he won't be there this year).

So we're going to... very much... you know, as you know, we've been, I think we've been involved more than any administration by far. It's a problem that's growing. And drugs are a similar but different problem in the sense that we have pushers and we have drug dealers that don't... I mean, they kill hundreds and hundreds of people, and most of them don't even go to jail. You know, if you shoot one person, they give you life, they give you the death penalty. These people can kill two thousand, three thousand people, and nothing happens to them. And we need strength with respect to the pushers and to the drug dealers. And if we don't do that, you're never going to solve the problem. If you want to be weak and you want to talk about just blue-ribbon committees, that's not the answer. The answer is that you have to have strength and you have to have toughness. The drug dealers, the drug pushers, are... they're really doing damage. They're really doing damage. Some countries have a very, very tough penalty - the ultimate penalty. And by the way, they have much less of a drug problem than we do. So we're going to have to be very strong on penalties...

Congressman Pete Sessions is the chair of the House Rules Committee. Since 2016, he has been blocking any consideration of pro-marijuana amendments that come through his committee. Here are remarks from Sessions that explain just how uninformed he is on the issue of marijuana.

Rob Portman - Marijuana Laced With Fentanyl [2017-03-06 Mon] by "Radical" Russ Belville

Rob Portman - Marijuana Gateway to Heroin [2017-03-06 Mon] by "Radical" Russ Belville

Jeff Sessions - Lacks-a-daisical about Drugs by "Radical" Russ Belville

Donald Trump - Confront Drug Culture by "Radical" Russ Belville

Donald Trump - Tougher we get, faster it goes away by "Radical" Russ Belville

Donald Trump - Some countries are tough, I guess we're not by "Radical" Russ Belville

Donald Trump - Harsh on Drugs Equals Less Difficulty by "Radical" Russ Belville

Donald Trump - Drug Users Fuel Violent Orgs by "Radical" Russ Belville

Pete Sessions - Opioid Crisis, But We Push Illegal Drugs by "Radical" Russ Belville

Pete Sessions - Merchants of Addiction by "Radical" Russ Belville

Jeff Sessions - DEA Funding Down, Addiction And Deaths Up by "Radical" Russ Belville

Pete Sessions - Marijuana is Gateway Drug by "Radical" Russ Belville

Jeff Sessions - Cops Say Addiction Starts with Marijuana by "Radical" Russ Belville

Donald Trump - Opioids or Traditional (Drugs) It's Never Been Like This by "Radical" Russ Belville

Donald Trump - Opioids and Traditional Drugs Pouring Across Southern Border by "Radical" Russ Belville

Donald Trump - SOTU Get Tougher On Dealers by "Radical" Russ Belville

NEWS: AutoNation Inc no longer discriminates against marijuana smokers in hiring; WHAT: Questioning the survey about pot smokers who go to work "high"; RANT: It's the drug testing itself that's a problem, not the pot-positive results.

Donald Trump announced a national emergency concerning the record rates of drug overdoses in the United States, particularly from opioid painkillers. He also announced that he had an idea that all we need to do is teach kids that drugs are very, very bad through a series of really tough, really big, really great advertisements.

Donald Trump announced a national emergency concerning the record rates of drug overdoses in the United States, particularly from opioid painkillers. He also announced that he had an idea that all we need to do is teach kids that drugs are very, very bad through a series of really tough, really big, really great advertisements.

Pitkin County Sheriff Joe DiSalvo welcomes the attendees of the Aspen Legal Seminar.