All statements from Patrick Kennedy

Half-True

Let's be blunt: Not quite right.

Patrick Kennedy

Patrick Kennedy

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

— PunditFact on Friday, July 6th, 2018

Mostly True

Today's bud is not your father's doobie

Patrick Kennedy

Patrick Kennedy

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

— PolitiFact National on Friday, January 24th, 2014

Half-True

Laws allow use for many conditions

Patrick Kennedy

Patrick Kennedy

"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."

— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Sunday, February 3rd, 2013

Half-True

Medical costs among many causes of bankruptcy

Patrick Kennedy

Patrick Kennedy

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

— PolitiFact Rhode Island on Sunday, July 29th, 2012

False

Insurance companies don't get that much.

Patrick Kennedy

Patrick Kennedy

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

— PolitiFact National on Friday, October 30th, 2009

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