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.
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 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 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!
Marijuana has survived everything else, it will survive Sessions.
The tokers were renting the house next door and toking outside because their mother did not want them toking in the house.
There is now a push to outlaw sugared drinks, smoking regular cigarettes is verboten, etc., but pot is heading for a free reign.
WTF?
Where are all those democraps and Rino’s who decry that evil Sessions? All this requires is a quick piece of legislation removing Marijuana from the list of illegal narcotics. Come on, folks, Sessions is simply saying his office can’t overlook a legal statute passed by a long dead legislature. Step up Big Boys! Show us that you have the balls to take a recorded position.
Remember: anti-drug, anti-tobacco, and anti-alcohol laws were all the product of PROGRESSIVES agitating for social engineering policies.
They all heavily involved ethnic stereotyping and race-baiting to motivate public support.
Their crusade against chewing tobacco and filthy spittoons led to an increase in cigar smoking. Their legislation against the evils of cigar smoking and careful legal definitions about what constituted a cigar led to the development of a product that bypassed those definitions: it was called the “little cigar,” better known as the cigarette. And we know how that turned out.
Their attacks on the drinking of alcoholic beverages, at a time when US per capita consumption was already quickly and spontaneously dropping before they ever got on the bandwagon, led to two great evils:
1) The progressives knew that with prohibition the federal government would lose its principal source of revenue, so they led the push for the income tax. They probably saw that per capita alcohol consumption was plummeting and knew that decreasing federal revenue would mean an increasingly poor federal government that, once they gained control, would not have the funds needed to enact the rest of their agenda.
2) At the time there were city by city crime syndicates. Within each city there were fierce battles between rival syndicates for control of territory as well as control of the city government. But the nationwide prohibition on the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages created the condition for organized crime on an national and international scope. Shortly after prohibition was made law, representatives from the various city crime syndicates met to work out a plan for cooperation in the importing, distribution, and sales of a formerly legal but still greatly desired product.
Thanks to the progressives and their desire to control the appetites of the public to enact their own vision of the perfect society, we got the twin scourges of skyrocketing federal taxation of all kinds enforced by the IRS that was the legal mirror image of the mob and organized international crime that exchanged rum-runners for narco-traficantes and all the subsidiary crime that came with it, including pleas for ever-increasing levels of federal efforts to combat a problem entirely of its own creation, and the creation of asset-forfeiture laws that have led to extreme abuse of the public they were meant to protect by giving law enforcement the means to seize money and property on the flimsiest of excuses and in the absence of any crime and to retain it with no conviction of their victims with the help of a separate asset forfeiture court system that almost always sides with the cops and lets them keep the rewards of their privateering.
Before these progressive-sponsored anti-substance laws were passed, there were people who used the various substances, but there were no widespread epidemics of crime caused by their use.
But now, thanks to the progressives, we have what we always had PLUS a massive federal government, oppressive regulations and punitive taxes, highly organized international crime syndicates, and all the crime that all those things have brought.
Thanks for worse than NOTHING, progressives.
status quo announced by US Attorney in Colorado (Feds still looking the other way ...):
http://kdvr.com/2018/01/04/u-s-attorney-for-colorado-status-quo-on-marijuana-prosecutions/
In before the first...oh, never mind.