Now I have a headache!
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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So you like a big nanny state of regulation of an individual smoking small amounts of marijuana in the privacy of their own residence. Got it.
Do you mean "Congress should repeal THEIR OWN UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAWS that make it a Federal crime"?
Not likely...
Yep, and yet everybody didn't turn it all in. You just don't go around saying you have some on hand if you're smart.
Are there countries where pot is totally legal?
No difference - the Tenth Amendment reiterates that Congressional authority is limited to the explicitly enumerated powers, and that supersedes any laws passed by Congress. The enumerated powers don't include regulating within-state drug matters.
I’m absolutely opposed to prohibition, as it will never work. That being said, I’m opposed even more to the idea we are only subject to the rule of laws that we approve of.
There’s a correct way to deal with MJ laws...deciding to ignore them is not it.
It’s a risky endeavor to hope that enforcement will change enough minds. Maybe—but maybe at a significant cost.
How do you know that to be so? Not everyone who drinks or craves alcohol has the means to satisfy their want, and will revert to even petty crimes to get the money they need to buy it. Don't you think there are alcoholics behind bars? It's one of the reasons they have AA in prisons. Convicts will go to any length to try to get a drink...even going so far as using rice, bread, potato peels, etc., if they can get their hands on it, to ferment their own jailhouse brew. That's why anything, even mouthwash that has a small percentage of alcohol in it is banned from prisons. There's a reason those things are considered contraband.
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I’m not saying changing the laws is easy...but it is more likely to succeed now more than ever before. You still have to go through the process.
They are actors! It's worse than the WWE. Jeff, you be the 'hero'. John, you and Lindsey will be the 'heels'.
You've actually trusted any them after all of the daggers in the back over the decades?!
I don't trust any of the R's and they still haven't earned my trust in the latest Act of their play.
So do you support cracking down on senior citizens buying cheaper prescription drugs from Canada?
Or are you a cafeteria law and order person?
How do you know that to be so?
If it was happening to any significant degree there would be direct evidence for it - which there is not.
Don't you think there are alcoholics behind bars?
No evidence there that their crimes were for the purpose of getting booze money.
It is mind boggling, yes.
Old Sessions presents himself as a sweet Southern Christian gentleman. I fell for it hook, line, and sinker.
My eyes are now wide open. Sessions is NO BETTER than McCain or any other traitor.
I now include him in my nightly prayers for God to deal with him accordingly. Meanwhile, I vomit in Sessions general direction.
I don’t support ignoring laws on the books as official policy, as many here seem to do.
Stupid laws have to be repealed, not ignored.
“You don’t think people get killed over marijuana? Think again.”
I Guar and damn tee ya that 100X that number was killed over a bottle of whiskey.
Or 1000X.
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