Posted on 01/04/2018 3:38:40 PM PST by NobleFree
(Career Limiting Move)
Sessions is the boss and this guy just publicly stated he was not going to change his ways, despite what the boss has stated.
Smart move would have been to just STFU and go about your business. If Sessions does not fire this guy, then sessions needs to go.
Well actually, Sessions needs to go regardless.
Interesting. Most red states like the medical pot.
“What happens tomorrow if Texas ignores ALL Federal environmental laws.
OK with you?”
Yes.
Now suppose the EPA gets in a dispute with Texas over an environmental regulation. Are you going to side with the EPA?
This is another Sally Yates situation.
If everyone wants to legalize pot for medicine, recreation, whatever - then have Congress decriminalize it. It is their job. Otherwise Sessions is sworn to uphold the laws as written.
Like Trump moving Embassy to Jerusalem - it was an act of Congress in 1995!
Agreed. Fedgov needs to back off the nanny-state drug laws and leave the states to handle this...along with health care, gun laws, and education. Immigration is one of the areas where the Fedgov SHOULD be taking a lead.
And yet another freeper rolls over for big unconstitutional fedgov.
Sad.
Sometimes the best thing to do is nothing (i.e. leave it to the states, leave established federal policy) but making pot an issue is no win.
But the FR Dopertarians already told me this was going to be Prohibition all over again.
Won’t happen. Sessions’ statement today said he would leave it up to each state’s Fed prosecutor. CO’s Fed prosecutor has just made his position clear.
ML/NJ
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Can someone explain why we needed a constitutional amendment to ban one drug(ethyl alcohol) but we didn’t need one to ban another drug (delta-g-tetrahydrocannabinol), otherwise known as weed?
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A: Because we no longer are an official Constitutional Republic.
- Controlled Substances Act - by what authority?
- Welfare (vs. 5th & 13th)?
- SS/MediXYZ and other Ponzi/entitlements
- Gun Control Act(s) vs. 2nd
IMO, the Republic died during the WBTS (aka ‘Civil War’) and has gone downhill since; warp speed since 20th century...
Sessions would have to contradict himself to fire this AG.
For Drug Laws, the most stringent is followed in Fed vs. State. Marijuana is a Class I Scheduled substance per the Federal Code. Sessions is doing his job.
Very true. Borders, guns, economy, war & peace...nothing brings them out like the ho-ho-holy high.
There is zero Constitutional authority for tge federal government to do it. At best they are doing someone else’s job.
Title 21 United States Code (USC) Controlled Substances Act
https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/21cfr/21usc/index.html
That’s ok. I consider supporters of the nanny-state absolutely bonkers.
Dude, youre harshing my mellow and throwin shade with your logical arguments. Brah, I havent looked, but maybe by now youve felt the peaceful, mellow threats from our pot friends as they attack you personally for advocating legal process in light of decades of legal precedent. Bro, for serious, youll find there is no one more scratchy and salty than a stoner who is frightened that his stash is going to be taken and that his fanciful understanding of law is for super paper thin. Peace out, Choka. You dirty Narc.
US Constitution, Article I, Section 8 - nothing here about authority to control substances:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
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