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Patrick Kennedy is a former Democratic congressman from Rhode Island. He served from 1995 to 2011, opting not to seek re-election in 2010 following the death of his father, Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy.

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Patrick Kennedy
stated on April 17, 2018 in an editorial:

Marijuana and THC "have caused emergency room visits to skyrocket."

By Katie Akin • July 6, 2018
Patrick Kennedy
stated on January 21, 2014 in an interview with MSNBC:

Marijuana today is "genetically modified," with THC levels that "far surpass the marijuana" of the 1970s.

By Steve Contorno • January 24, 2014
Patrick Kennedy
stated on January 8, 2013 in news story:

"Eighty percent of those who have applied for licenses have no cancer, no Parkinson's disease or glaucoma. They have nothing you would associate [with] the use of medical marijuana."

By Michael McKinney • February 3, 2013
Patrick Kennedy
stated on July 13, 2012 in a radio interview:

"The largest number of bankruptcies in our country are really as a result of health care."

By Edward Fitzpatrick • July 29, 2012
Patrick Kennedy
stated on October 27, 2009 in a speech on the House floor. :

"One-third of the health care dollar goes to no such thing as health care; it goes to the insurance companies."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 30, 2009

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