I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t believe anything that any government official says. As a matter of fact I’m inclined to believe the opposite. What they say is 99.99% politics. The remaining .01 % still isn’t likely to be for the good of the listener.
Whether it’s racism, global warming, peak oil, quantitative easing or tobacco’s bad but legal marihuana poses no risk, there’s no science or objectivity, just an agenda.