When he said that, he meant it. It was against the law.
That’s Sessions’ personal feeling on the issue. I tend to agree with him. But that whole thing is likely to stay a state issue, so the liberal media needs to stop scaremongering. But that’s probably asking to much of them...
Still is a federal crime.
States are pushing their luck on this one.
Marijuana makes you stupid.
The peeps of Wash. are ignorant?
Ah! Weed!
Numerous studies show that long term use of marijuana causes...uh......uh....uh....what were we talking about?
Ah! Weed!
The truth is, there is nothing in the Federal Constitution that grants Congress the right to make any law concerning what vegetables you may grow in your backyard, carry around in your back pocket, eat, or smoke.
In 1920 we believed that the Federal Government lacked the competence to control any aspect of the manufacture, sale, transportation or consumption of fruit and vegetable products without the full force and significant exertion of a Constitutional Amendment to do so.
Our respect for the Constitution in general, and the Tenth Amendment in particular had fallen so low after just a few years of an out-of-control President, that by 1936 -- when Marijuana was outlawed -- we thought it was a legitimate exercise of authority to do that by the simple passage of a law.
By 1990 our understanding of our own founding document was so poor that a Federal Bureaucrat named David Kessler -- appointed by Bush the Elder -- believed it was within his purview to outlaw all usage of a plant (called tobacco) on nothing more than the stroke of his own pen.
Luckily for the Republic, he did not force the issue. I say luckily, because he would have been backed in his decision by the Federal Judiciary if he'd done so, and more of our liberty would have gone down the drain.
It's time to "progress" back to 1920, admit that Congress doesn't have the authority to ban Marijuana or any other substance, and recognize that legal entities with the Constitutional authority -- the states, or the People, respectively -- should decide the issue.
It means there's a huge number of liberals living here and I'm not one of them.
Gen. 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
“good people don’t smoke marijuana.”
He’s actually quite right. I’ve been around enough heavy users to see the destruction they bring.
More lawless violent Clinton/Obama supporters.
Well, you are wrong Jeff. I know plenty of good people who smoke that nasty stuff and they run multi-million and billion dollar companies.
Not my thing but, then again, many people feel the same way you do about scotch or red wine, which I’m sure your lips have occasion to taste.
take the weed out of prohibition, end violent crime and pollution of our forests.
Regulate it and tax it.
Give cops something else to do...
I resemble that remark...
Did Washington vote Trump?
Further proof that good people are in the minority in Washington.
Nothing, Trump and Sessions aren't going to go after pot smokers or dealers in WA state (as long as the state keeps the stuff from going to children or over state lines, according to article).
They will let WA state stew in its own toxic cloud. It's bad in Seattle now, homeless burn-outs all over the place.
Like Gov Hickenlooper in Colorado, maybe WA will realize that legalization was a mistake. But no way Trump is going to force the issue. The state will have to come to terms with it on their own.
Trump has said that he believes in state’s rights. Let’s hope he sticks to that.
Ouch. Might have offended a few FReepers.
Guess I should kill the rest of that bottle a Wild Turkey tonight and toast Good.
It really doesn’t matter what he thinks; this has gone too far. To bust the pot shops and growers in a legalized state would require an army of DEA agents and virtual martial law. State LE will not arrest people for doing something legal under state law regardless of what the US AG says.
Weed is great!!
Unless you’re an airline pilot. Or a nuclear power plant operator. Or drive an 18-wheeler. Or a brain surgeon. Or President of the United States.....