OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A day after sending out a press release making pot jokes when referring to a Washington State University study on marijuana’s effect on pain medication, Republican Dino Rossi’s campaign insists no disrespect was meant.
On Thursday, Rossi released a statement focusing on the two-year project by psychology professor Michael Morgan, who is injecting synthetic cannabinoids along with opiates in rats to see how to improve treatment for people with chronic pain.
Rossi criticized the $148,000 in federal stimulus dollars granted to Morgan, saying taxpayers are “are tired of their money going up in smoke” and that instead of creating jobs, the money isn’t “going to stimulate anything other than sales of Cheetos.”
