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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With sanctuary city nonsense and CA continuing to thumb its nose at immigration enforcement, marijuana is down the bottom of the list for me.
The best way to get bad law repealed is to vigorously enforcement.
Picking and choosing which laws we abide by is not an option.
Drug money fueling infiltration of the US?
Sessions is on the wrong side of the issue-—definitely not for freedom especially in this case. He’s stated his opinion. Vigorous enforcement would not result in repealing the backward federal laws on marijuana.
The sentence makes sense. The logic doesn’t.
freedom of the individual comes before the written law.
You don’t think people get killed over marijuana?
People got killed over alcohol when that drug was illegal - and stopped getting killed over it when it was relegalized.
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.
All irrelevant to the original subject of leading to violent crime.
If Congress passed a law that made firearm possession a criminal act would you follow that law and turn in your weapons or allow a search of your home to make sure you didn't have any?
Firearms are made of substances, aren't they? Couldn't such substances be controlled through a law?
Disagree. It makes perfect sense, as my previous dealings with you have revealed.
“I’m hardly delusional. I spent 25 years working in uniform in NY State’s prison system, and there’s plenty of proof to counter your claims. You don’t think people get killed over marijuana? Think again.”
Those things are the result of prohibition, not the drug.
By that logic, anyone can come up with any justification to ignore any written law. Really want to go there?
Frankly, I'm very surprised the liberals haven't. There was a ban on private possession of gold, if you recall.... BY EXECUTIVE ORDER.
Would you feel the same way if Congress passed a law banning guns? Would you voluntarily obey? It sounds like it.
Really? How many dealers do you know? My guess is none. If you think you've found one in me, you're still batting zero. Only a fool would ask such a foolish thing. AG Sessions may be looking for someone with just your talents and 'bravery'. Don't be a coward when the call comes!
The only reason pot increases crime is because it’s against the law. Manufacture, distribution, sales, possession and use are all crimes.
This link between pot and crime is a false one.
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.
In the full context of Mariner's post, it seems clear that what he meant was that the pot-crime link is not intrinsic but created by pot criminalization. And your examples confirm that point: alcohol addicts don't to any significant degree rob to get booze money because their drug is legal and therefore affordable without recourse to crime.
Sheesh. The very thought of Jeff Sessions being that deceitful is mind-boggling. I mean, if we can’t trust Sessions to be who he has pretended to be all these years, who can we trust? Remember, Sessions sent one of his top aides, Stephen Miller, to help Trump with policy issues (Jan 2016). Now I don’t trust Miller either.
I do agree with you about DJT being too trusting, at least in the beginning. He’s a quick learner, though, especially with all the recent Clinton-related murders that are still ongoing. I bet he wishes he could start over again now that he knows the GOP has been plotting his demise this entire time.
Maybe he’ll start a 3rd party and show the GOP how serious we are about not supporting their charade any longer.
Well put. It is a stupid move. Trump had better get on a war footing ... and quick.
He should have Sessions make up an excuse to resign. Then do a Recess Appointment of a real hard ass.
Big difference...RKBA is an enumerated and protected right in the Constitution, which supersedes any laws passed by Congress.
Would you follow such a law or support it's enforcement?
What about salt, or sugar. Those are detrimental substances in the eyes of some.
I'll take two 16 oz sugary drinks, please, since a single 32 oz is against the law.
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