Who?
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT)
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Ask a Pol asks:
What are your thoughts on the DEA — Drug Enforcement Administration — moving to reschedule marijuana?
Key Lee:
“It’s a pretty significant move. I haven’t — I haven’t gone back yet to look at the statutory authority that they rely on, so I — I should know that, and I don’t. But I had always assumed,” Sen. Mike Lee exclusively told Ask a Pol.
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Congress keeps ceding its power?
“It has been since the late 1930s quite steadily, so it’s a — look, a lot of — I have thought for a while that rescheduling might be a good idea because it’s very difficult to test something when it’s a Schedule I,” Lee told us. “It’s different from them — yeah, exactly — from DEA doing it on its own.”
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Mike Lee
SCENE: Sen. Mike Lee’s walking through the basement of the US Capitol alone when Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo chats him up.
Lee — a former law clerk of then-Judge Samuel Alito — and Laslo — a Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University’s Government and Public Policy MA program — proceed to talk pot policy and the Constitutional separation of powers while riding the elevator up to the second floor of the Capitol, just off the Senate floor.
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Matt Laslo: “Do you have any thoughts on the DEA moving to reschedule marijuana?”
Mike Lee: “Y’know, it’s interesting. For some reason, I have been a — I had thought that took an act of Congress?”
Laslo: “Right? And like — shouldn’t it?”
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