Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday he doubts the accuracy of scientific research that increasingly links state-legal medical marijuana to reductions in opioid use and overdose deaths.

“I think one study that suggested there’s some sort of inverse relationship between increased marijuana use and reducing of deaths, I did see that,” Sessions said during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing.

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