Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) is winning praise from top law enforcement officers at home for his work cracking down on a “poisonous drug” that is targeting kids in Arkansas and around the country.
Arkansas’s Attorney General, Tim Griffin, has been pressing Congress “to ensure that the American people and American businesses have access to safe, nonintoxicating hemp products.” He told the Washington Reporter that Arkansans are lucky to have Cotton fighting on their behalf.
“Gas station weed candy is a plague on our communities and a clear and present danger to our children,” Griffin said. “We are fortunate that Senator Tom Cotton is fighting to keep Arkansas kids safe and has the backbone to fight this poisonous drug.”
While Cotton’s work is appreciated by Arkansas’s top cop, Griffin has also made it clear that the work is needed on a national level. Griffin previously spearheaded a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.), Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R., S.D.), Sen. Susan Collins (R., Maine), and Rep. Tom Cole (R., Okla.) alongside 34 other attorneys general of both parties arguing that Congress made the right move by “closing the loophole in the 2018 Farm Bill that led to the proliferation of unregulated intoxicating hemp products throughout the country.”
“Your action protected consumers, provided much-needed regulatory clarity, and preserved legitimate industrial, agricultural, and nonintoxicating hemp markets,” the law enforcement officials wrote.
