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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National Borders belong to the U.S.A. They may be co-located with a state border but the national control of these borders supersedes the state. California is encouraging illegals to break the law, they are aiding and abetting human trafficking, they are harboring criminals. Time for federal marshalls to be given warrants to arrest those who are participating in these crimes against the American people and therefore trying to undermine our American sovereignty.
+1
Pain Patients to. Kratom is next on the radar. While you don’t get high off it, it acts like Tramadol.
Intractable Pain Patients are turning to MMJ as the states, feds and LSM promote this “FAKE OPIOID” Crisis. New laws went into effect Jan 1 with Data Bases, Pain Clinics these tests run up to $2K a month. Doctors afraid to script for legal Pain meds. States stand to gain BILLIONS in chasing this fake crisis to fight ‘crime’. 19 trips thru court ordered rehab and the Heroin user will be right back shooting up and OD’s. Drug dealers are now carrying their own Narcan to sell the user.
Illegals responsible for 3/4th of fed drug possession...dealers.
10 Myths of Opioid Crisis
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2017/12/24/10-myths-about-the-opioid-crisis
Opioid Addiction Is a Huge Problem, but Pain Prescriptions Are Not the Cause
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/opioid-addiction-is-a-huge-problem-but-pain-prescriptions-are-not-the-cause/
Chasing the wrong Epidemic
https://thecrimereport.org/2018/01/02/chasing-the-wrong-epidemic/
Yup, Filburn is the one I’m thinking of.
I’m very bad at remembering names, so law school was never in my future.
In modern leftist legal theory, Delaware Doper might pick up sticks and move to the Golden State to buy recreational weed. This would reduce the amount of out-of-state lumber and building products needed in Delaware, impacting interstate commerce.
Well said
Sessions should keep ignoring democrat crimes and REALLY GO AFTER MATTRESS TAG REMOVERS!!!
“those who are participating in these crimes against the American people and therefore trying to undermine our American sovereignty”
American leftists are trying to get the votes illegally to outvote the productive members of society.
The European leftists are trying to do the same.
Since most people are fairly normal, they usually get job, do what needs to be done to keep the job and advance to a better job. They then predominately become homeowners at a 60% plus rate. Then they save for retirement.
Such productive people have no use for a welfare state and its taxation and hangers-on.
To avoid likely irrelevance, the leftists here and in Europe seek to import low-skill people likely to need and qualify for welfare benefits and then set them on “a path to citizenship” and left-leaning voting.
Gail, I agree with you 100%.
The combo alcoholic or chronic is unusual
It’s 99 percent one or the other
Booze is far more effective for escapism and more powerful
In my experience
Sounds like your brother has issues that contribute to potheadism and alcoholism
I don’t think either are causative as much as symptomatic of folks with issues and lack of discipline and I’ve had both in my family too
This sounds like the lefts argument against doing anything meaningful about immigration.
The fed regulation is based on a court decision which (paraphrasing here) determined that marijuana MAY cross a state line, therefore interstate commerce is affected. This is a MAJOR overreach by the court in a case where no actual such event was offered as evidence, no actual damages occurred. Nor was the argument considered that if all the states legalized cannabis, and the feds didn’t, how would the interstate argument hold sway? And historically, America was conceived by Founding Fathers whose parents were required to grow cannabis / hemp as Colonials due to its many uses as textiles and medicines.
I know. This idiot sure has his priorities straight s/
“This is a step backwards. I believe in federalism.”
Just like the filthy evil of prohibition,
“States vs. Federal Government.”
Lincoln laid the ground work.
Not likely to be successful but hope it is.
Oops, that might squash Mike Tyson’s new marijuana farm.
OK, drugs are a problem? We are awash in Meth and frighteningly pure Heroin, so he decides to take on pot.
President Trump, can't you just retire this moron?
“Aren’t there more important things for Sessions to attend to than this and reviving civil asset forfeiture?”
Apparently not in his mind. I think if somebody told Sessions that Hillary and Huma were selling dope, they would already be in jail.
“The current state where the DEA is allowed to prohibit substances on a whim is blatantly counter to our founding principles.”
“Do you now or have you ever taken an aspirin or smoked a cigarette?”
Since Congress is still mostly trying to sabotage Trump, they are probably happy to pretend this is all Trump's doing and not theirs.
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