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 ...
The DEA banned your beloved marijuana [by classifying it as a Schedule One drug]—not Congress.
Potheads have trouble getting ANY facts straight.
“the scientific literature”
CORRECTION:
The Soros literature
What “federal law” ?
Yeah, well having recused himself from virtually everything significant, Sessions has lots of time to dedicate himself to violating the 10th Amendment in order to fight legal pot. Great.
Did you even read my post, which opened by saying, “Just to be clear up front: If I had the power to prohibit marijuana I would do it.”?
http://kdvr.com/2018/01/04/u-s-attorney-for-colorado-status-quo-on-marijuana-prosecutions/
Looks like not much is changing.
Why is a Federal law banning marijuana constitutional? It’s a very simple question
In order to allow Congress to ban alcohol, the Constitution had to be amended to add to Congress’s Article I §8 enumerated powers (Amendment XVIII).
Which enumerated power of Congress allows it to ban, or to delegate to the DEA the (nonexistent) authority to ban, marijuana?
Or do you believe Congress has the power to pass any law it desires under the necessary and proper clause? If that’s true, why did the writers bother enumerating the powers of Congress in the first place?
We could go back and ask Thomas Jefferson if he agrees with the creation of the Controlled Substance Act of 1970, and may very well say “no”. But we live under the reality of the FDA, DEA, etc. Remove marijuana from the federal statue and let states decide? Fine with me. But we shouldn’t have States ignoring Federal statutes nor the Executive Branch deciding for itself which Federal Statutes to ignore. Do you not see a problem with the current situation? Selective enforcement is not “justice for all”.
I don’t smoke it but I hardly think it should be a priority of A.G. Sessions. Instead he should put his efforts toward getting rid of the traitors in his department and investigating all the well known crimes of the democrat party. In fact Sessions needs to go. He should return to Alabama and prepare to run for his old senate seat. As bad an AG as he has been he was still a very good Senator and would easily win.
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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?
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The whole ‘interstate commerce’ is non-starter; in a much as to REGULATE commerce == REGULATE via 2nd A. (IE: “I do not think it means what you think it means.”): To make REGULAR/consistent != to rule over. Especially as it has been bastardized to dismiss the whole of the Constitutional constraints vis a vie A1S8/9th/10th.
Sorry, but too many here on FR love their pet-issue(s) that Const. violations are JUST *dandy*....when it’s not their ox getting gored. Let alone many ‘debating’ from the Leftists lexicon.
Well, since cigarettes are known to harm human health one would think unfiltered pot smoking wherein the smoke is held in the lungs longer is not desirable. There’s the problem with increases in teen pot smoking in CO (it is hidden because schools are not prosecuting), the fact that there’s about 10 times more THC in modern pot and there’s that funky vomiting thing that some pot smokers are having, theres the contribution or trigger some people experience to mental health problems and other ways in which taking your senses offline while pretending to function in society is not salubrious.
boy that’s gonna be hard to get all the egg off your face when his actions surface later this year. Oh but it will be dried by then so maybe it will just flake off.
So the next SOB running for prez in the libtard party will partly run on pot and will have quite the advantage. Furthermore, there are so many more extremely pressing problems for the DOJ and AG. Libtards are running out the clock and their long term strategies are becoming rather successful with all things considered running up to the next election.
“SOB running for prez in the libtard party will partly run on pot and will have quite the advantage.”
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Really? Because I don’t recall any president snapping up victory by running on pot.
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“Libtards are running out the clock and their long term strategies are becoming rather successful with all things considered running up to the next election.”
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Really? We must be watching two different realities unfold. Now, why would you be perceiving things so completely different than I am. Hmmmm...
Another FReeper leaks on the Tenth Amendment and tries to rationalize it.
OK, let’s institute the 10th amendment only when it comes to legalizing pot. And let all the other things that have happened go.
The much more important things.
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