Joe Manchin Wants A New War On Drugs Since Pot Is A Gateway
Here's an amazing statistic: drug overdoses now kill more Americans than guns.
Overall, overdose deaths rose 11 percent last year, to 52,404. By comparison, the number of people who died in car crashes was 37,757, an increase of 12 percent. Gun deaths, including homicides and suicides, totaled 36,252, up 7 percent.
Joe Manchin is alarmed, and not just because the national statistics are bad, He's alarmed by some amazing reporting by the Charleston Gazette-Mail that we posted yesterday. Manchin's state of West Virginia has the highest death rate from opioid overdose in the nation.
And it turns out the blind greed of big pharma is helping to kill his constituents. And CNN notes his hands aren't clean:
Manchin's daughter, Heather Bresch, is the CEO of Mylan, which produces opioids. His campaign committee also has received about $180,000 in donations from the pharmaceuticals/health products industry between 2011-2016, according to Open Secrets, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group that keeps track of money in politics.
So how does Manchin (who is the fakest Democrat in the Senate by the way)