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Latest Fact-Checks In Drugs

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Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
stated on August 3, 2016 a town hall meeting
Legal prescription drugs "statistically kill 100,000 people a year, (but) there are no documented deaths due to marijuana."
Half-True
By Joseph Cariz • August 16, 2016
Josh Shapiro
Josh Shapiro
stated on August 11, 2016 a platform on his campaign website
Overdosing is now the number one accidental killer in our Commonwealth.
True
By Anna Orso • August 11, 2016
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on July 20, 2016 a press release
"Illinois suffered 1,652 overdose deaths in 2014 ... of which 40 percent were associated with heroin. Illinois is ranked number one in the nation for a decline in treatment capacity between 2007 and 2012, and is now ranked the third worst in the country for state-funded treatment capacity." 
True
By Kevin Hoffman • August 4, 2016
Van Jones
Van Jones
stated on July 7, 2016 a panel discussion on CNN
African-Americans don't use drugs at a higher level than whites but "wind up going to prison six times more."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 13, 2016
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on June 22, 2016 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."
Mostly False
By Dan Clark • July 8, 2016
Brad Schimel
Brad Schimel
stated on June 6, 2016 an opinion piece
"More people now die in Wisconsin from drug overdoses than car crashes."
True
By Cara Lombardo • July 8, 2016
Louie Gohmert
Louie Gohmert
stated on May 10, 2016 House floor remarks
"Of all the people in federal prison for possession of illegal substances, 77 percent of them are not citizens of the United States."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 17, 2016
Larry Yarborough
Larry Yarborough
stated on June 9, 2016 a meeting in the legislature about hemp regulations
Says if you try to hide marijuana in a hemp field, "it becomes worthless. The THC goes away."
Mostly True
By Will Doran • June 14, 2016
Pete Gallego
Pete Gallego
stated on April 22, 2016 Pete Gallego campaign press release
Says Will Hurd "cosponsored a bill that would militarize our border and allow 200 miles of new roads to be built in the Big Bend region -- cutting up our beloved park."
Half-True
By Filipa Ioannou • May 26, 2016
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on May 17, 2016 a radio interview
Ohio is "probably top five in the country, sadly, in terms of heroin overdoses. It’s now exceeded car accidents as the No. 1 cause of death in Ohio."  
Half-True
By Nadia Pflaum • May 23, 2016
William Devereaux
William Devereaux
stated on May 10, 2016 a legislative hearing
"You can import as many hemp products into this country as you want...but we can’t grow it."  
True
By Jacqueline Tempera • May 22, 2016
Vernon Keenan
Vernon Keenan
stated on April 26, 2016 Newspaper interview
The city of Clarkston "can’t decriminalize marijuana. Only state legislators and Congress can do that."
True
By Jim Tharpe • May 11, 2016
Freedom Partners Action Fund
Freedom Partners Action Fund
stated on May 2, 2016 a TV ad
"Russ Feingold got a memo in 2009 that outlined veteran harm" at a Wisconsin VA facility "and nothing was done."
False
May 11, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 21, 2016 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."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • April 26, 2016
Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan
stated on April 19, 2016 an op-ed in the Huffington Post
"Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • April 22, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 26, 2016 a speech
"Under the federal Controlled Substance Act, marijuana is listed in the same Schedule I as heroin," even though "marijuana is not a killer drug like heroin."  
Mostly True
April 22, 2016
Californians for Lower Drug Prices
Californians for Lower Drug Prices
stated on March 21, 2016 a press release
"Twenty-seven out-of-state pharmaceutical companies have raised more campaign dollars (against a drug price control measure) than all other state ballot measures have raised to date, combined."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • April 4, 2016
Joe Pitts
Joe Pitts
stated on March 10, 2016 a Medium post
"According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 120 Americans on average die from a drug overdose every day. Overall, drug overdose deaths now outnumber deaths from firearms."
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2016
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on March 17, 2016 a political ad
Says Donald Trump promised "to take care of everybody (through government-run healthcare and) the government's going to pay for it."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 21, 2016
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on March 8, 2016 Department of Homeland Security hearing
"We understand that this heroin is primarily coming from Mexico, over the border."  
True
By Nadia Pflaum • March 14, 2016
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