Posted on 01/04/2018 9:05:52 AM PST by Elderberry
Legal marijuana is not the answer to states financial problem (no more than legalize gambling solved states financial problem)
The problem states have is not lack of money, it is out of control spending in social programs and generous public employee pensions (a ponzi scheme if there ever was one).
Politicians have for years been buying votes with money from the future. As the tax burden rises, people move out of high tax states (while freeloaders move in). It is as the left like to say, unsustainable.
Finding new tax revenue is a temporary fix, but will not solve the problem.
States need to get out of the social welfare business.
States need to get out of the health care (except for traditional public health matters)
States need to end all public employee pensions and switch to 401k type programs. Once an employee leave the employ of the state no public money should go to them
This is going to happen. It is going to be controlled transition or it is going to be bankrupt state where the courts rule on who gets paid what.
Health? public safety? Ya think anyone will buy that when a 21 year old walk to the corner and by a gallon of Tequila?
Come on.
Of the million things that Sessions should be doing to roll back corruption and liberal policies at the DOJ, this is probably number 999,999.
First, confiscate all the state tax money earned off this illegal business.
States’ rights, Tenth Amendment, capitalism, freedom > AG Sessions
The feds control “national security” The states and locals public safety.
If the pot is grown, sold and used instate then the tenth amendment and the restrictions on federal powers mean the feds have no standing.
Your concern for pot smokers safety shouldn’t justify unconstitutional actions on the part of the federal government which now has it’s tentacles in more and more of our lives irrespective of the constitution.
The issue of the day is IMMIGRATION, both Legal and ILLEGAL.
This is just one guy’s obsession with reversing the 60’s, and he isn’t focused on the Big, Big thing: IMMIGRATION.
We don’t want our children to live in a Third World America, and we don’t want them ruled by the people from those places who simply walk in and declare themselves in charge!!
Invasion is not a civil right just because you’re non-white!
Sessions needs to heed the President and the People and go all out on immigration enforcement!
This is a step backwards. I believe in federalism.
Bump to the top!
Sessions tackles marijuana while letting corruption flourish. He needs to adjust his priorities.
What a waste of time. He could actually be doing something useful.
For only $10 or $20 trillion more dollars, we can finally win the War on Drugs!
The only thing Sessions will do is alienate millions of supporters and those who support states rights.
This is a dumb as it gets.
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Apparently Sessions is as scientifically clueless as most people in the streets. If he had the balls to read the scientific literature he would find marijana is not the devil it is made out to be...the whole problem is all about money. He probably knows all about that as he seems to be a Clinton Mafia fan and not the slightest bit interested in cleaning the swamp of which he seems part of. Where is
Trump pick this guy up from and why is he being kept?
I am so disgusted.
Federal marijuana laws are UNCONSTITUTIONAL ... as are ALL Federal drug laws.
Remember, it took an AMENDMENT to the Constitution to prohibit alcohol!
The Feds originally prohibited marijuana by requiring a tax be payed by growers and that tax-stamps be issued. Then they REFUSED to issue the stamps!
Clearly unconstitutional, it is a STATE issue.
The current state where the DEA is allowed to prohibit substances on a whim is blatantly counter to our founding principles.
Sessions can’t make law, that is the role of Congress. He, Holder, Lynch, all are unelected officials tasked with enforcing the law. Are the people who are saying that this will alienate them totally OK with jury-rigging our legal system?
It sounds like this is simply lifting an unethical restriction on Federal prosecutors, essentially forbidding them from enforcing certain laws - just unwinding another Obama-era cheat.
Discretion is delegated to local prosecutors, as it generally is with all other crime.
Congress could always revise the law, which is how it should have been done in the first place.
Obama the Drug Czar
what does it matter if they are 21 or 51?
Winning!
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