The Washington Post's impressively named Paige Winfield Cunningham also said,
"Hey, you're harshing my buzz, dude."
Posted on 01/08/2018 6:28:34 AM PST by NobleFree
If you live in a place where recreational pot use is legal, you’re probably wondering whether you need to start worrying about getting prosecuted for it. The answer is probably not, at least according to initial indications from the dozen or so U.S. attorneys general who get to make that call. [...] Of the 13 U.S. attorneys presiding in the eight states with laws making recreational use legal, several have indicated they’re interested only in going after marijuana distributors or users with ties to crime or violence. [...]
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I think we’ve hit a tipping point of no return. And I think this should be a State right issue. The Feds just can’t keep their hands out of anything.
Hey, this is harshing the Washington Post’s buzz, dude.
Excuse me, if you want pot to be a “state’s rights” issue, then contact your Congresscritter to change the law. Until then, it’s a Schedule 1 narcotic, and its illegal. Sessions is doing the right thing here.
Sessions is enforcing existing laws. His point is that you can’t have the states passing conflicting laws. Sessions is pushing Congress to act. Allowing the states to ignore existing federal laws or having the federal government not enforce them are not permanent solutions.
The Washington Post's impressively named Paige Winfield Cunningham also said,
"Hey, you're harshing my buzz, dude."
The blue states are in a tizzy.
Jeff Sessions is either wasting our national law enforcement or he is creating a distraction for President Trump.
Fussing about marijuana right now, when he should be issuing *hundreds* of federal indictments against the Clinton-Obama gangs is as ridiculous as a city’s chief of police ignoring dozens of armed robberies to focus on “the jaywalking crisis!”
The Justice Department has limited resources. Wouldn’t it be better for all if it would act on the worst of the crimes first?
Again, if Jeff Sessions is doing this on his own, he needs to get out of the way, quit or be fired, so that someone else can do the job. If he is doing this on President Trump’s orders, it had better be one hell of a hat trick.
IIRC Sessions is merely enforcing the law. Change the law. Maybe that is the point.
Yeah, all that has to be done is change the law the Constitutional way.
I guess that is too hard for people these days. Griping and whining until you get your way is the new normal.
Marijuana laws are probably close to last on anyone’s hit list. As in.....much bigger fish to fry.
Marijuana is safer than alcohol. Any regulation of marijuana should definitely be left up to the states.
This is not about “Jeff Sessions” ... this is about the Attorney General upholding US law. If people don’t like it then change the damned law!
Agreed.
Regardless of whether one thinks the 'evil weed' needs to be eradicated because it's 'evil', or whether one thinks it's the elixir of life, this is going to be a political disaster for Trump and the GOP, because there's a clear majority of Americans oppose MJ prohibition.
It's time for Congress to get it together and pass a law to repeal federal MJ prohibition, or (at the very least) remove it from Schedule 1 of the CSA.
I’d take granny over Jeff Sessions any day.
Marijuana has survived everything else, it will survive Sessions.
“Excuse me, if you want pot to be a “state’s rights” issue, then contact your Congresscritter to change the law. Until then, it’s a Schedule 1 narcotic, and its illegal. Sessions is doing the right thing here.”
Segregation was the law too as was Dred Scott decision, Prohibition,Clinton gun ban, smoking bans, etc. So just roll over and take whatever shit these filthy politicians throw at us? Honorable law enforcement with character and morals would resign before enforcing unjust laws. The defense of “I was just following orders” can’t be allowed.
AFAIK, only the DEA can remove it from Schedule 1, as their own administrative law judge Francis Young odered in 1988 The head of the DEA said “no thanks”.
"I was merely enforcing the law...following orders."
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