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House Democrat tattles on Republican pot smokers

By Kelly Cohen
Published November 14, 2017 5:09pm ET
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House Democrat tattles on Republican pot smokers
Attorney General Jeff Sessions explained that his old comment in which he implied that people who smoked pot weren't good people was delivered decades earlier, and was in the context of trying to reduce drug use in the U.S. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) | Alex Brandon

A House Democrat on Tuesday ratted out several prominent Republican politicians as former marijuana smokers, and dared Attorney General Jeff Sessions to say any of them weren’t good people.

Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., referred to a 2016 quote from Sessions in which he implied that people who smoked pot weren’t good people, and then asked if that applied to any of his GOP colleagues.

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