I hope cooler heads quietly prevail on Mr. Sessions quietly dropping his “marijuana crackdown” idea.
Nixon’s “War on Drugs”, mostly against marijuana, cost the US perhaps a trillion or more dollars in one of the most inane and downright stupid campaigns ever created. A declaration of war against the Moon.
Its biggest success was in stripping Americans of a huge number of constitutional and legal rights, and caused a repulsive growth in both the “industrial prison system” and the abhorrent property seizure practices (something else that Sessions favors) that still confiscate hundreds of billions of dollars of property every year with no, *zero* criminal complaint. A corrupting influence on police at all levels.
This confiscation amounts to “Hagar the Horrible”-style taxation, of a tax collector showing up at the door with a brute with an axe.
A thousand times worse for our nation than alcohol prohibition, which created the organized crime syndicates that still exist.
Just kill the monster. Focus exclusively on the “hard drugs” like opiates, amphetamines, cocaine and synthetics.
Hard drug use almost always starts with marijuana use. If you don’t want to get busted for a drug crime, then don’t use drugs.
I have heard personally from Sheriff Joe Arpaio's own testimony, as he was part of Nixon's force to prevent drugs coming into the U.S.
I also do not accept the 'pot is harmless" theories spouted by both Libertarians and pot smokers.
We, here in Kansas, are experiencing many problems from our Colo. neighbors to our West.
Pot smokers are not unimpaired drivers and though they believe they are driving in control, they are not and we have videos to prove our point and that's just one of the problems.
If we accept, as we have, that we all should pay for the massive medical problems with tobacco smokers, just wait until the pot smokers have inhaled that carcinogen for a few years, not to mention the "second hand smoke," asthma, lung and allergy expenses.
The authoritarians on the right haven’t quite figured out, you are not going to drain the swamp and wage their failing war on some drugs and some drug users at the same time. Draining the swamp directly implies a vast reduction in the fed.gov. That includes their favorite flavor of boot polish. Drug interdiction at our borders (THE WALL) will curtail the hard stuff and the mex dirt weed. The domestic genie (home grown)is out of the lamp and he will not be put back into it! I suggest to them, go sip on a single malt and relish their losses.