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Jeff Sessions Struggles to Get Planned Marijuana Crackdown Going
The Wall Street Journal ^ | June 10th, 2018 | By Sadie Gurman and Natalie Andrews

Posted on 06/10/2018 12:03:33 PM PDT by Mariner

Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed to use federal law to get tough on marijuana, announcing in January he was ending Obama-era protections for the nascent pot industry in states where it is legal. Six months into his mission, he is largely going it alone.

Mr. Sessions’ own prosecutors have yet to bring federal charges against pot businesses that are abiding by state law. And fellow Republicans in Congress, with support from President Donald Trump, are promoting several bills that would protect or even expand the legal pot trade.

As a result, Mr. Sessions, an unabashed drug warrior, has struggled to make his anti-marijuana agenda a reality, a notable contrast with the success he has had in toughening law-and-order policies in other criminal justice areas.

Marijuana advocates say Mr. Sessions’ approach, in seeking to spur a crackdown on the legal marijuana market, has largely backfired. It has catalyzed bipartisan support for research, they say, and for action to improve the young industry’s access to banks, which have been generally unwilling to accept proceeds from pot sales.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cannabis; marijuana; pot; sessions; trustsessions; wod
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Sessions' DOJ is in an active coup against eh United States and he wants to go after weed.

Something the President, nor the Congress, nor the vast majority of the American people want.

What's wrong with this guy?

1 posted on 06/10/2018 12:03:33 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner

Dementia. Maybe he is so stressed that dementia took over. He isn’t that old really, but it hapoens.


2 posted on 06/10/2018 12:06:42 PM PDT by madison10
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Sessions’ DOJ is in an active coup against eh United States and he wants to go after weed

HELLO, MCSESSIONS.…HELLO!!!!!

3 posted on 06/10/2018 12:08:53 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: Mariner

Jeff Session has been AG for 1 year, 4 months, 1 day.


4 posted on 06/10/2018 12:09:46 PM PDT by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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Glad to see he has his priorities right. </sarc>
 
5 posted on 06/10/2018 12:10:07 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: proust

Or
486 days


6 posted on 06/10/2018 12:10:23 PM PDT by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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To: Mariner

There do seem to be more pressing things for the Attorney General to be concerned with, namely his Department running amuck.


7 posted on 06/10/2018 12:11:25 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Mariner

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Time for President Trump to issue an Executive order to his department of Justice to keep their noses out!
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8 posted on 06/10/2018 12:12:51 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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I guess when you recuse yourself, you have a lot of free time to persue pet projects.


9 posted on 06/10/2018 12:13:22 PM PDT by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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To: madison10

Dementia? More like swamp denizen.


10 posted on 06/10/2018 12:13:38 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: proust

Shouldn’t he be so exhausted from pursuing Huma,Weiner,Hillary,Obama,McCabe,Comey and more for criminal
actions? No time for this stuff.


11 posted on 06/10/2018 12:14:03 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting ,vote fraud & leftist media news censorhip or we're finished.)
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Words fail. The moron is focused on pot in the middle of an attempted coup.


12 posted on 06/10/2018 12:16:12 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Mariner

The only explanation that makes sense is if this is calculated to have a specific blowback, which then provides an impetus for policy change in the form of public awareness and support, to be acted on. That he hasn’t in reality prosecuted anyone based on the announced policy is possible supporting evidence of this hypothesis.


13 posted on 06/10/2018 12:17:05 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 1)
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To: editor-surveyor
Time for President Trump to issue an Executive order to his department of Justice to keep their noses out!

PDJT has basically said that he might, yanking the carpet right under Jeff Sessions. This was recent, like last week. Don't have the links, google is your friend.

14 posted on 06/10/2018 12:17:24 PM PDT by Fhios (Atlas shrugged, Sessions yawned.)
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To: Mariner

Some people just need a good bong hit to chill the f out.


15 posted on 06/10/2018 12:18:10 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Mariner

Somebody needs to tell him Hillary, Obama and Comey smoke a lot of weed.


16 posted on 06/10/2018 12:18:31 PM PDT by jospehm20
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Somebody needs to tell him Hillary, Obama and Comey smoke a lot of weed.


17 posted on 06/10/2018 12:18:32 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Fhios

Yep. He did.


18 posted on 06/10/2018 12:19:44 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Mariner

This REALLY pisses me off. Sessions is going after pot, an issue few people really care about, while ignoring the important stuff like Killary, Awans, nobama, et al.

Admittedly, Sessions did make a half-hearted attempt at squashing MS13 but I haven’t seen any follow up.


19 posted on 06/10/2018 12:19:56 PM PDT by upchuck (The problem: parents doing their careers instead of raising their kids. h/t: Wyrd bið ful aræd)
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Maybe he is too focused on all on the crime in rural Oregon against the massive local absentee landlord....


20 posted on 06/10/2018 12:21:45 PM PDT by Paladin2
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