Former Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy spoke with GoLocal LIVE on Wednesday about efforts in Rhode Island once again to legalize marijuana – and what he said is the country’s crisis of addiction, and why he is opposed to marijuana legalization. “We’re going though an epidemic of addiction and depressionand we’re in the midst of the rollback the biggest expansion of healthcare coverage that benefits people with mental illness [and] addiction, and this was the first time the ever got coverage,” Kennedy told GoLocal’s Kate Nagle on Wednesday.
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Kennedy on Trump: ‘We’re not an authoritarian country’
In this Jan. 6, 2009, file photo, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., left, holds a Bible during the mock swearing-in ceremony for his son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., on Capitol Hill in Washington. In a February 2017 interview with the Associated Press, former Rep. Patrick Kennedy speaks about the Donald Trump presidency and what his late father may have thought about it.
We’re not an authoritarian country,’ Patrick Kennedy says about Trump
Former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy says he thinks what President Donald Trump has done so far in office will ”hopefully spark a reexamination of who we are as a people.’ ‘ The member of one of the nation’s most famous Democratic families told The Associated Press in an interview he sees threats to the constitutional form of government, and said his father, the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, of Massachusetts, believed that Americans should never take democracy for granted.