I agree with Sessions in one major respect. The law is the law. It doesn’t change just because some people want it to change. Congress needs to change it. But this Congress is chicken. I would suggest that instead of abolishing the pot laws they should pass a law allowing each state the opportunity to opt out of the Federal pot laws. I think they should be able to get the votes to do that.
I don’t care about what potheads do in the privacy of their own home. Stone is right.
True never trust a mind that likes being in a out of focus.
Marijuana cures bad breath.
There are still a lot of illegal sellers and growers he can go after. All these legalization schemes were supposed to put these cartels out of business, but didn’t.
yup. over target; you and the AG taking flak from the anarchists.
I'm not sure the laws Sessions is enforcing on the Federal level are Constitutional.
Even if they are, it's Sessions playing small ball while he's recused himself from draining the Big Swamp.
Is he now Roger Stoned?
Huge mistake, the cat is out of the bag, people know that Marijuana is not a significantly harmful substance and will continue to use it. There’s absolutely no way for Trump to stop it without sending in the military to CA (don’t expect local help) to declare a literal war on weed (eg. shooting growers and sellers, sending users to gitmo). Don’t know what this guy is thinking, medical marijuana was passed in CA in 1996, now it’s time to change policy 22 years later?
“Stone parrots the straight Soros, pothead talking points.”
Only according to the truly ignorant, the willfully ignorant, nanny-state supporters & FR trolls.
This fits precisely with Rosenstein’s tweet.
These threads all seem to align the same way. But the most disturbing are those who post that really don’t accept the conservative view here.
One can argue that pot is bad. There are several studies that point to that. One can argue that pot is good. There are new emerging studies that point to that. By the same token, anything in excess is bad regardless of the good and bad.
What folks here — on this particular forum — shouldn’t be able to argue is that — regardless of your position on pot itself — the laws that were used to implement its prohibition, including the 1937 Marihuana Act and the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, were derived and invented on very shaky Constitutional grounds. This is especially obvious when looking at what it took to prohibit — and make available again — alcohol.
You don’t have to be a pro-pot person to understand why this should and must be a State issue. Constitutionally, the Federal government has no right in this realm, unless they take the step of creating an Amendment that would override the boundaries of the 10th Amendment. And no, the Supremacy Clause should not apply here, as a strict reading of that clause states very clearly that it only applies to laws “made in Pursuance” of the Constitution — not laws outside of its purview.
Congress does need to act, but not to enforce it’s wrongly-derived law, but to fix it by passing it back to the States.
It is likely this will go to the Supreme Court with so many States now on board. I’m hoping that the Originalists on the court will rule with the Constitution, and not jump through hoops (as Roberts is want to do) to come up with some vaporous reason to keep Federal prohibition in place.
There will be no tromp jackbooted Thugs storming pot dispensaries in California or Colorado
Mark my words
remember Bill Clinton? Remember the kid from Cuba and jackboots go in with M-16s and seize him at gunpoint ?
remember Waco Texas ?
I can list hundreds
Ruby Ridge and the list goes on and on and on
this is an much to do about nothing
All drug law should be handled by the states.
The Federal Government does not constitutionally have the right to legislate such things.
There is a reason an amendment was needed to prohibit alcohol.
Civics 101.
Sessions was a great Senator: good office decor, no molesting of the interns, no financial scandal, did nothing of consequence, retired to take a better job.
Too bad the job he took,AG, he was not qualified for.
The job of the DOJ is to enforce the laws. Period. We can't complain about Obama's DOJ deciding which laws to enforce, and which ones to ignore (immigration) if we turn around and do the exact same sort of thing.
Congress needs to update the MJ laws or remove them and let the states decide how they want to handle the issue.
Sessions is doing the right thing by not following in Holder's/Lynch's footsteps in the concept of "we decide what laws to enforce and which ones to ignore".
Republicans (controlling the House and Senate) need to grow a spine and tell the public why they're not addressing the outdated Federal Marijuana laws and explain why they seem to prefer to let the Executive branch legislate via selective enforcement.
Stone needs to be Bannonized.