Posted on 06/13/2017 9:50:21 AM PDT by Drew68
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is asking congressional leaders to undo federal medical marijuana protections that have been in place since 2014, according to a May letter that became public Monday.
The protections, known as the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, prohibit the Justice Department from using federal funds to prevent certain states "from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession or cultivation of medical marijuana."
In his letter, first obtained by Tom Angell of Massroots.com and verified independently by The Washington Post, Sessions argued that the amendment would "inhibit [the Justice Department's] authority to enforce the Controlled Substances Act." He continues:
I believe it would be unwise for Congress to restrict the discretion of the Department to fund particular prosecutions, particularly in the midst of an historic drug epidemic and potentially long-term uptick in violent crime. The Department must be in a position to use all laws available to combat the transnational drug organizations and dangerous drug traffickers who threaten American lives.
Sessions's citing of a "historic drug epidemic" to justify a crackdown on medical marijuana is at odds with what researchers know about current drug use and abuse in the United States. The epidemic Sessions refers to involves deadly opiate drugs, not marijuana. A growing body of research (acknowledged by the National Institute on Drug Abuse) has shown that opiate deaths and overdoses actually decrease in states with medical marijuana laws on the books.
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And that is why we have a Bill of Rights, or used to as it has been eroded by the likes of you cheering on the fedgov usurping states rights because someone somewhere is doing something you disagree with.
Projection is a liberal trait, snowflake.
No one give a fig as to what you think is “wrong”. Please take your nanny-state BS somewhere far away from where genuine Americans and real conservatives are attempting to Make America Great Again...
And your point is?
FR has changed a bit through the years.
Let’s take a good look at the foundation of our laws.
I have a message for you to pass on to George Soros—tell him the progressivist plan to get as many Americans hooked on marijuana as possible is not going to get past Attorney General Sessions.
And now you resort to an ad hominem. You get lamer with each post.
It’s actually a message I want very much for Soros to be aware of.
One more thing—if you guys can send me your addresses confidentially, I’ll see if I can find some urine drug testing supplies to mail you. After you provide the sample we’ll work out which lab to send it out to, depending on things like cost and proximity.
Try the 10th Amendment. Tell me again where the fedgov gets the regulatory power to control a state wanting to set up an internal medical marijuana program. Clarence Thomas challenged that notion in Raich. With far more clarity and logic than you can muster on this thread.
You’re pathetic. I work in a job where I had to pass a drug test, jackass.
Oh, and resorting to personal attacks shows you have lost the discussion at the level of logic and reason.
Let’s take a good look at the foundation of our laws.
Let's: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men" (emphasis added)
What if the test is for medical reasons?
I said the foundation—much deeper.
only meridol is actually dosed. The so call dosing is a joke. BTW you think incorrectly. It is like saying the muffin factory doses blueberries.
The moral foundation of western law.
You may have the last word. FR is better than dealing with a dolt like you who wants the fedgov to have powers that exceed the 10th Amendment.
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