Posted on 01/04/2018 9:05:52 AM PST by Elderberry
Attorney General Jeff Sessions will roll back an Obama-era policy that gave states leeway to allow marijuana for recreational purposes.
Two sources with knowledge of the decision confirmed to The Hill that Sessions will rescind the so-called Cole memo, which ordered U.S. attorneys in states where marijuana has been legalized to deprioritize prosecution of marijuana-related cases.
The Associated Press first reported the decision.
Sessions, a vocal critic of marijuana legalization, has hinted for months that he would move to crack down on the growing cannabis market.
Sessions, since taking over as head of the Justice Department, has appeared to show a harder line on marijuana. In May, the attorney general sent a letter to congressional leaders requesting they get rid of an amendment in the department’s budget that blocks the Justice Department from using federal money to prevent states "from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession or cultivation of medical marijuana."
Opponents of legal marijuana on Thursday celebrated the long-awaited action.
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States vs. Federal Government.
Is sanity returning to America?
Just to be clear up front: If I had the power to prohibit marijuana I would do it.
But the issue of Federal authority vs. State authority is much more important than my personal views about the demon weed.
In 1917, when Congress decided it wanted to ban fermented plant products (alcohol), they realized that the Constitution granted them no such power and that an Amendment would be required in order to make the Volstead Act constitutional.
In 1970, when Congress decided it wanted to exercise legislative authority over other plant products (marijuana), they just went right ahead and did it.
If the Volstead Act would have been unconstitutional without the XVII Amendment, what makes the marijuana portions of the Controlled Substances Act constitutional?
States which are legalizing marijuana are making a serious error, in my opinion. But I have no question that they have the authority to do this.
I have serious doubts that Congress has, or had, the authority to ban it.
No the federal government is violating the 10th amendment
Hard to put the genie back in the bottle.
Forget about the weed, dope, and concentrate on the insidious, rampant government corruption!
Aren’t there more important things for Sessions to attend to than this and reviving civil asset forfeiture? Like cleaning the dismal Seep State swamp?
Excellent chess move by Sessions to attack the sanctuary for illegals that these states were doing.
Deep state swamp. Self correcting keyboard.
The only thing Sessions will do is alienate millions of supporters and those who support states rights.
This is a dumb as it gets.
I’m waiting for him to end the policy that allows Hillary to prosper and walk around free.
Sessions is all over it if it has anything to do with the impersonal like drugs. Get personal like Hillary or the various minions of the deep state and he’s ether struck comatose or has just begun another vacation - whichever comes first.
How about immigration? An Obama judge decided that federal laws trump state laws when it comes to immigration.
It seems that most issues are not specific in the constitution, therefore they should be decided at the state level only. But we have gone so far away from that that there’s just no fixing it. And one issue just won’t make a difference anymore.
But I can see that issues involving public safety and health should Be at the federal level, covering all citizens equally even if they live in an idiot state.
“Excellent chess move by Sessions to attack the sanctuary for illegals that these states were doing.”
My suspicion as well.
“Excellent chess move by Sessions to attack the sanctuary for illegals that these states were doing.”
Yes, many dreamers will now be classified as criminals. Adios!
“Excellent chess move by Sessions to attack the sanctuary for illegals that these states were doing.”
All he has done is offer lip service on the issue of sanctuary jurisdictions.
He has yet to jail a single official for violation of federal law.
Agreed. The massive government corruption needs to be nipped in the bud.
Sessions is 100% wrong on this issue, IMO.
I sincerely hope President Trump, who as a candidate said cannabis is a states rights orders Sessions to cease & desist from this disastrous path.
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