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Jeff Sessions Struggles to Get Planned Marijuana Crackdown Going
The Wall Street Journal ^ | June 10th, 2018 | By Sadie Gurman and Natalie Andrews

Posted on 06/10/2018 12:03:33 PM PDT by Mariner

Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed to use federal law to get tough on marijuana, announcing in January he was ending Obama-era protections for the nascent pot industry in states where it is legal. Six months into his mission, he is largely going it alone.

Mr. Sessions’ own prosecutors have yet to bring federal charges against pot businesses that are abiding by state law. And fellow Republicans in Congress, with support from President Donald Trump, are promoting several bills that would protect or even expand the legal pot trade.

As a result, Mr. Sessions, an unabashed drug warrior, has struggled to make his anti-marijuana agenda a reality, a notable contrast with the success he has had in toughening law-and-order policies in other criminal justice areas.

Marijuana advocates say Mr. Sessions’ approach, in seeking to spur a crackdown on the legal marijuana market, has largely backfired. It has catalyzed bipartisan support for research, they say, and for action to improve the young industry’s access to banks, which have been generally unwilling to accept proceeds from pot sales.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cannabis; marijuana; pot; sessions; trustsessions; wod
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To: Mariner

Under our Constitution, Marijuana is a state matter. There’s no genuine issue of interstate commerce.


41 posted on 06/10/2018 1:38:59 PM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“There do seem to be more pressing things for the Attorney General to be concerned with, namely his Department running amuck.”

It my guess that Trump will fire Sessions after the November elections...


42 posted on 06/10/2018 1:41:38 PM PDT by snoringbear (W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: gibsonguy

[in the middle of an attempted coup]

That, we are definitely in the middle of.


43 posted on 06/10/2018 1:42:06 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Mariner

Jeff Sessions Struggles to Get Planned Marijuana Crackdown Going

Jeff Sessions Struggles


44 posted on 06/10/2018 1:43:01 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (The only trannie I want to see is a Muncie 4 Speed M-22 Rock Crusher)
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To: Mariner

Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

Sessions diddles while the Constitution burns.


45 posted on 06/10/2018 1:53:38 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (The only trannie I want to see is a Muncie 4 Speed M-22 Rock Crusher)
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To: Fhios

See President Trump de-ball the prohibitionists in 18 seconds =>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M53XLBd54Y


46 posted on 06/10/2018 2:01:38 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Mariner

What a worthless tool.

Controlled substance regulation should always have been primarily a state issue. The Feds need only get involved in interstate cases that the states can’t resolve, and the interdiction of drugs at the border.

Where the Feds do have a strong constitutional duty to get involved is interdiction of illicit drugs at the border and with illegals operating in this country facilitating the drug trade. Go after Chinese fentanyl, cocaine from Latin America and opium from Afganistan.

If he did that, he’d have about 80% of the country behind him, on the drug issue that is.


47 posted on 06/10/2018 2:13:04 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Abolish administrative law. It's regressive, medieval and unconstitutional!)
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To: Mariner
Sessions' DOJ is in an active coup against the United States and he wants to go after weed.

More government control huh?

He can pursue this issue at his own risk. And he will find it's a risk that will no doubt send him into political obscurity.

48 posted on 06/10/2018 2:13:30 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Mariner

Reposted from another Sessions thread =>

President Trump eviscerated Jeff Sessions the other day at the FEMA hurricane briefing. He brought his cabinet, the First Lady, and a roomful of aides and officials long with him.

He singled out each cabinet member and told them what a great job they were doing and listed some of their accomplishments. All except for Jeff Sessions, that is. Trump gave him a perfunctory “Thank you Jeff. Thank you very much”, then moved on.

It was like Trump arranged this gathering with the express purpose of humiliating Sessions.

See for yourself. The President begins speaking at 3m 15s =>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyX1QD1Ou3g


49 posted on 06/10/2018 2:15:14 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Mariner

Cab Calloway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD4a-F4tMz0


50 posted on 06/10/2018 2:26:58 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: Yaelle

LMAO!


51 posted on 06/10/2018 4:41:41 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Socon-Econ

Supremacy Clause.


52 posted on 06/10/2018 4:43:22 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Hey Mr. Sessions! Here’s some things that are more important than going after that “devil weed”...

Louis Learner
Hillary Clinton
Barrack Obama
Eric Holder

Each one would require pages and pages to list their numerous crimes. Yet you are going after a 16 year old smoking a doobie! Are you friggin’ kidding me?


53 posted on 06/10/2018 5:27:13 PM PDT by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: vette6387

54 posted on 06/10/2018 5:43:18 PM PDT by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: Mariner

55 posted on 06/10/2018 5:52:13 PM PDT by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

I’m sorry, but that is extremely insulting......to Mr.Fudd.


56 posted on 06/10/2018 10:56:03 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Here is another theory fantasy: Sessions is playing the bad cop role.

Fixed that for you. You're welcome!

57 posted on 06/11/2018 8:50:25 AM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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