Posted on 07/23/2017 10:14:54 AM PDT by Mariner
The Trump administration is readying for a crackdown on marijuana users under Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
President Trump’s Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety, led by Sessions, is expected to release a report next week that criminal justice reform advocates fear will link marijuana to violent crime and recommend tougher sentences for those caught growing, selling and smoking the plant.
Sessions sent a memo in April updating the U.S. Attorney’s Offices and Department of Justice Department (DOJ) component heads on the work of the task force, which he said would be accomplished through various subcommittees. In the memo, Sessions said he has asked for initial recommendations no later than July 27.
“Task Force subcommittees will also undertake a review of existing policies in the areas of charging, sentencing, and marijuana to ensure consistency with the Department's overall strategy on reducing violent crime and with Administration goals and priorities,” he wrote.
Criminal justice reform advocates fear Sessions’s memo signals stricter enforcement is ahead.
“The task force revolves around reducing violent crime and Sessions and other DOJ officials have been out there over the last month and explicitly the last couple of weeks talking about how immigration and marijuana increases violent crime,” said Inimai Chettiar, director of the Brennan Center's Justice Program.
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The best way to get Mexican cartels and gangs out of our national forests is to subject them to legal competition - as has prevented the proliferation of alcohol stills in our national forests.
That is certainly *a* way, but is it really the "best" way?
We could have state national guards do periodic sweeps of the forests, too.
My way is a better way that cracking down on all marijuana, and is in no way contradictory to sweeping the forests.
People get killed today as a result of drunken brawls, shootings, car accidents, hit and runs, etc., not to mention the health issues people die from connected to alcoholism, alcohol poisoning, etc. Alcoholism destroys the liver, and can damage the brain, nervous system, and other organs.
There is a difference between being pro-marijuana and pro individual choice and freedom. Or do you enjoy the nanny state?
I think DJT will ask for his resignation, as if he already didn’t with the NYT piece.
Wrong. Try taking a gander at their rap sheets. Most of them have been in and out of the criminal justice system, and prison system, not just for drug related crimes, but for other crimes as well.
I'm for liberty in general and legalization in particular; I've used both alcohol and marijuana, and alcohol was worse for me.
It did to me.
Let's break it down...
ifinnegan...There’s a reason the left and liberals have promoted dope smoking so hard for so long.
Mariner...Silly you would preclude anyone who ever smoked a joint from voting conservative, or America First.
YOU...(Silly you)...would stop (that's what preclude means) anyone who ever smoked weed from voting conservative, or America First because only the left and liberals have promoted dope smoking.
Makes perfect sense. Your belief is that anyone who smokes weed is a leftist.
You’re on the low side of the scale too, aren’t ya?
From your rung of the ladder...yeah, everybody is low on the scale, but we're all still further up than you.
In your mind. Tell that to the victim who has been beaten up and robbed just so that a user of marijuana could get some money to buy some pot. Or the person whose house is broken into, and possessions stolen so the perp could pawn the stuff to buy whatever type of drug they wanted.
You took the words right out of my mouth!
Sessions is a red neck hick who thinks this is still the ‘80’s, there were and still are many posing as sheriff and other LEO’s in the deep south just like him.
What’s next Sessions? Federal enforcement of speeding laws on interstate highways? Go over 55 and you will be arrested and your vehicle will be confiscated and sold.
Don't point out the obvious. You have to concentrate on the abstract. {;^)
DOJ’s next project..... Unpaid parking tickets
I would think we would have something more important to do than chase down stinking pot smokers
** More likely the defense lawyer/Prison industry.
It kinda all makes sense now, why he was the first to endorse. Best way to control the opposition is to BE it.**
If Sessions is deep state, i still can’t figure out why he endorsed and campaigned for Trump in the first place. If they didn’t think DJT had a chance of winning, why put Sessions out there to support a losing candidate? (It would help if i could remember the timeline of events).
UNLESS, Sessions was sent to the DJT camp to weaken or knock out Cruz. If you’ll remember, people were surprised when Sessions picked DJT over Cruz. In the end, Cruz turned out to be the last contender.
Nothing about all this makes sense other than Sessions needs to step down on Day 1 of the Congressional recess so his boss can appoint a pit bull to replace him. If he doesn’t, then he’ll be hated for decades.
Don't point out the obvious. You have to concentrate on the abstract. {;^)
Tackling marijuana but caving everywhere else. Good grief.
I see things a bit differently.
If Congress wants to allow states to decide on their own issues like Marijuana, then Congress should repeal THEIR OWN LAWS that make it a Federal crime. Leaving laws on the books then tacking amendments onto budgets forbidding the DOJ to enforce the laws Congress passed is absolutely the wrong approach.
I tend to favor states' rights over deciding things like this at the Federal level. But if Congress doesn't like Federal marijuana laws then they should repeal the darned laws instead of leaving them in place and then telling the DOJ to not enforce this law or that law.
All Sessions did was send Congress a letter saying when you guys do the next budget next month, leave these sort of restrictions out of it and let me enforce the laws as they stand.
If you don’t like MJ laws on the books, modify or repeal them. Until that happens, they need to be vigorously enforced.
To make sure that if on the outside chance he did win a "trusted" insider would be inside just in case he did manage to pull it off, which he did. Sessions loses nothing either way. He's still a 'good ol' boy' with the "in crowd".
Trump is too trusting, IMO, where distrust is a must.
I have to disagree with that. Sessions could easily advocate Congress to change the laws. Instead, he’s stuck in the 1980s southern mentality that you are the devil if marijuana is involved. He wants to keep laws on books AND have vigorous enforcement.
Made perfect sense to me. Perhaps you are at a low reading-comprehension level.
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