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Donald Trump
stated on January 6, 2023 in a campaign website:

As president, Donald Trump “marshaled the full power of government to stop deadly drugs, opioids, and fentanyl from coming into our country. As a result, drug overdose deaths declined nationwide for the first time in nearly 30 years."

By Louis Jacobson • January 9, 2023
Club for Growth
stated on October 5, 2022 in an ad:

As attorney general, Catherine Cortez Masto “opposed tougher laws on methamphetamine dealers.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • October 14, 2022
Newt Gingrich
stated on September 29, 2022 in On Fox News:

Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman’s tattoo references ‘heroin use’ and the Crips

By Michael Majchrowicz • October 5, 2022
Sean Spicer
stated on February 8, 2022 in a tweet:

The Biden administration “is spending $30 million on crack pipes.”

By Louis Jacobson • February 10, 2022
Ron DeSantis
stated on January 25, 2022 in a tweet:

“Without a shred of clinical data to support its decision, the Biden Administration has revoked the emergency use authorization for lifesaving monoclonal antibody treatments.”

By Jon Greenberg • January 31, 2022
Democratic Underground
stated on August 17, 2021 in an Instagram post:

“The second-largest investor in Regeneron” is a firm whose CEO is Ron DeSantis’ “number one political donor.”

By Tom Kertscher • August 19, 2021
Viral image
stated on August 8, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Ivermectin is an effective treatment for COVID-19.

By Tom Kertscher • August 10, 2021
Josh Stein
stated on August 3, 2021 in a Council of State meeting:

“More people have died of an opioid overdose in North Carolina in recent years than have died of COVID.”

By Paul Specht • August 6, 2021
Mark Walker
stated on January 22, 2021 in a tweet:

“President Biden is raising the prices of insulin and Epi-Pens on those with high costs and the uninsured.”

By Samantha Putterman • February 12, 2021
David Rouzer
stated on December 3, 2020 in a tweet:

The National Institutes of Health “states that regular marijuana use can reduce IQ by 8 points.”

By Paul Specht • December 8, 2020
Tucker Carlson
stated on November 2, 2020 in a Fox News broadcast:

“When large numbers of people in Butler (Pa.) started killing themselves with narcotics, no one in Washington or New York or Los Angeles said a word about it.”

By Jon Greenberg • November 5, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on October 22, 2020 in the final 2020 presidential debate:

As part of the Obama administration's criminal justice reforms, “38,000 prisoners were released from federal prison.”

By Bill McCarthy • October 23, 2020
Senate Majority PAC
stated on July 13, 2020 in a TV ad:

Says Susan Collins "voted against accountability for opioid makers” and denied taking campaign money from a family who made its wealth selling OxyContin.

By Tom Kertscher • August 14, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2020 in a tweet:

Under an executive order, “expensive insulin went from big dollars to virtual pennies … especially (for) our seniors.”

By Jon Greenberg • August 3, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on May 14, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Cannabis may stop coronavirus from infecting people, study finds.”

By Tom Kertscher • May 18, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on November 15, 2019 in a Facebook post:

“If you have the Flu… get these two items… Sambucol (and) Oscillococcinum… in 48 hours you will feel better. In 72 hours you will be almost symptom-free.”

By Emily Venezky • February 27, 2020
Bloggers
stated on July 9, 2016 in a story:

Ninety pounds of cocaine was found on a boat owned by Mitch McConnell's family and that they are “financing his Senate campaigns with their cocaine drug profits.”

By Samantha Putterman • February 26, 2020
Viral image
stated on January 30, 2020 in an Instagram post:

Says John F. Kennedy “smoked cannabis in the White House, while president, because he suffered from severe back pain and Addison's disease."

By Tom Kertscher • February 7, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on February 4, 2020 in his State of the Union:

Last year, "for the first time in 51 years, the cost of prescription drugs actually went down."

By Shefali Luthra • February 5, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on May 22, 2019 in a speech at the White House:

"Drug prices are coming down, first time in 51 years because of my administration."

By Shefali Luthra • May 22, 2019
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 14, 2018 in a radio interview:

Says as a Schedule 1 drug, marijuana carries a designation that means it "should not be researched"

By Eric Litke • November 21, 2018
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 14, 2018 in a radio interview:

Says VA doctors are "censored from being able to talk to their patients" about marijuana, even in states where it is legal for medicinal use

By Eric Litke • November 9, 2018
Bloggers
stated on June 16, 2018 in a blog post:

"Obama administration kept illegal Mexican kids in detention camps as ‘experiment’"

By Bill McCarthy • June 25, 2018
Richard Cordray
stated on June 4, 2018 in an event in Springfield:

On Mike DeWine's record as attorney general: "Opioid deaths have tripled on his watch and there have been cuts to funds for first responders and people in the community fighting the crisis."

By Amy Sherman • June 12, 2018
Greg Abbott
stated on April 9, 2018 in an interview by Trey Ware of San Antonio's KTSA radio station:

Says that as of March 2018 compared with 2017, "there’s been a more than 200 percent increase in the number of people who are apprehended coming across the border. And, I’ll tell you this, there’s been a more than 200 percent increase in apprehension of heroin coming across the border."

By W. Gardner Selby • April 24, 2018
Ohioans Against Deceptive Rx Ballot Issue
stated on May 23, 2017 in a campaign ad:

"A California health care CEO is promising to reduce our prescription drug costs."

By Manuela Tobias • October 13, 2017
Mike Pence
stated on October 4, 2016 in the 2016 Vice Presidential debate:

Says Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine "want to expand (Obamacare) into a single-payer program."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 5, 2016
Andrew Cuomo
stated on June 22, 2016 in a press conference in Buffalo before signing legislation to combat heroin addiction.:

"We’re losing as many people to heroin and opioid overdoses as we lost to the AIDS epidemic at its peak."

By Dan Clark • July 8, 2016
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 21, 2016 in a "Good Morning America" town hall:

Marijuana is a Schedule I drug, "which you understand means that you can’t do any research about it."

By Lauren Carroll • April 26, 2016
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 in a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas:

"We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana."

By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2015

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