In dark bluejeans and work shirt, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood in a Texas farm field, faced a camera and outlined his plan to combat drug addiction.
“I’m going to bring a new industry to these forgotten corners of America, where addicts can help each other recover from their addictions,” he said in a 45-minute documentary, “Recovering America: A Film About Healing Our Addiction Crisis,” released in June by his presidential campaign.
“We’re going to build hundreds of healing farms where American kids can reconnect to America’s soil, where they can learn the discipline of hard work that rebuilds self-esteem and where they can master new skills,” he continued.
He has proposed to pay for the farms by levying a federal tax on marijuana, which he would press to be sold in dispensaries nationwide. Some drug policy experts said that seemed ironic.
“Paying for treatment by encouraging marijuana addiction is like paying for hospital costs by encouraging excessive speeding,” said Kevin Sabet, a former drug policy expert in Democratic and Republican administrations.
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