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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
“OK, let’s institute the 10th amendment only when it comes to legalizing pot. And let all the other things that have happened go.”
Why not support the Tenth Amendment whenever and wherever the issue arises? Too simple and straightforward for you?
It never ceases to amaze me how many freepers here think Sessions is a do-nothing or worse.
They watch too much TV and too many movies? Smoke too much dope? Something is wrong with their cognitive thinking skills.
A lot fewer people are DMOTMC* than you may think.
* Devout Members Of The Marijuana Cult
I do. But how do you intend to fix all the issues retroactively?
Supporting pot is not a hill I’ll die on. You go ahead.
No, you don’t support the 10th Amendment. If you did, you would not have written the following =>
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“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.”
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So where does the Constitution delegate power over health and public safety to fedgov?
This has nothing to do with economics. It's a states rights issue and the principle of that matter that if you want to smoke pot, it's your business.
This has nothing to do with economics. It’s a states rights issue and the principle of that matter that if you want to smoke pot, it’s your business.
Perhaps, but it was legalize because they wanted to tax it.
To be sure there is an economic aspect to this but that falls way down on the list of the reasons want it legalized.
“* Devout Members Of The Marijuana Cult”
How quaint :)
safety, equates to national security
fine, be thrilled about living among potheads
again, i’d rather not so i’m not dying on this hill. you go ahead and quit berating me. you’re like a naggy old woman.
Food for thought =>
“A return to a strictly Constitutional form of federal government will automatically repeal and abolish all unconstitutional federal involvement in states issues such as: crime, health, education, welfare and the environment. The Tenth Amendment will again be in effect, which will bar all federal attempts at legislating social issues.”
-Jim Robinson
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how do we do this?
You mean you want, like Soros, to eliminate the entire Controlled Substances Act?
“how do we do this?”
A decent start would be to oppose violations of the 10th Amendment, rather than dismiss or encourage them.
i’m sure my sitting on my couch opposing something will make it happen /s
Getting rid of the liberals in both parties in congress who benefit from federal overreach seem like it would work much better.
“i’m sure my sitting on my couch opposing something will make it happen /s”
You seem to have no problem sitting on your couch supporting fedgov control over health care.
that’s quite a leap, even for a whiny old woman
“That was one of the reasons it was criminalized in the first place! “
I didn’t know that.
I believe that’s what Sessions said one year ago. If you don’t like the law, CHANGE the law.
I’m really sick of Sessions. He can’t get involved in the Russia investigation and he picks a fight that will divide conservatives.
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