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Attorney General nominee: ‘Good people don't smoke marijuana'
KIRO 7 ^ | 18 NOVEMBER 2016 | KIRO 7 AND AP

Posted on 11/18/2016 5:28:34 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist

United States Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions is against legal marijuana and once said “good people don’t smoke marijuana.”

What does that mean for Washington State, where voters legalized marijuana?

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cannabis; marijuana; pot; potheads; sessions; trump; wod; wodlist
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To: RKBA Democrat

I cordially disagree. Federal “legalization” assumes that the Federal government has authority to make it illegal in the first place. It has no such power. That power belongs to the States, respectively, or to The People.


21 posted on 11/18/2016 5:46:49 PM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Gen. 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.


22 posted on 11/18/2016 5:47:33 PM PST by BipolarBob (Hillary "Elect me and every Tuesday will be Soylent Green day!".)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“good people don’t smoke marijuana.”

He’s actually quite right. I’ve been around enough heavy users to see the destruction they bring.


23 posted on 11/18/2016 5:47:39 PM PST by DaxtonBrown
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To: cumbo78

Not in this state.


24 posted on 11/18/2016 5:48:47 PM PST by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

More lawless violent Clinton/Obama supporters.


25 posted on 11/18/2016 5:49:25 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

Whoop, please disregard #25


26 posted on 11/18/2016 5:50:28 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: FredZarguna

I stand corrected. However how as a practical matter do you get the law off the books without effectively legalizing it?


27 posted on 11/18/2016 5:50:57 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Nigel Farage for US Ambassador to the UN!!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Well, you are wrong Jeff. I know plenty of good people who smoke that nasty stuff and they run multi-million and billion dollar companies.

Not my thing but, then again, many people feel the same way you do about scotch or red wine, which I’m sure your lips have occasion to taste.

take the weed out of prohibition, end violent crime and pollution of our forests.

Regulate it and tax it.

Give cops something else to do...


28 posted on 11/18/2016 5:51:05 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: pissant

Didn’t he proclaim that no one needed more than 640K?


29 posted on 11/18/2016 5:51:25 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I resemble that remark...


30 posted on 11/18/2016 5:52:13 PM PST by SteveinSATX (Anti-liberalism 24/7)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
Not advocating drugs. Don't do drugs, rarely even drink, never to excess. Simply because a thing is wrong or bad for you doesn't mean it's the government's business.

In fact most of the things you shouldn't do aren't illegal (and shouldn't be.)

Good conservatives don't cede a single iota of power to the Government that it doesn't Constitutionally own. It's not a "libertarian" issue. Read the Constitution, and put your finger on one place where it says who gets to regulate drugs.

If your finger doesn't land on the Tenth Amendment, you're not a conservative.

31 posted on 11/18/2016 5:52:30 PM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Did Washington vote Trump?

Further proof that good people are in the minority in Washington.


32 posted on 11/18/2016 5:52:49 PM PST by marron
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
What does that mean for Washington State ...?

Nothing, Trump and Sessions aren't going to go after pot smokers or dealers in WA state (as long as the state keeps the stuff from going to children or over state lines, according to article).

They will let WA state stew in its own toxic cloud. It's bad in Seattle now, homeless burn-outs all over the place.

Like Gov Hickenlooper in Colorado, maybe WA will realize that legalization was a mistake. But no way Trump is going to force the issue. The state will have to come to terms with it on their own.

33 posted on 11/18/2016 5:52:55 PM PST by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Trump has said that he believes in state’s rights. Let’s hope he sticks to that.


34 posted on 11/18/2016 5:55:16 PM PST by TigersEye (Congratulations, President Donald J. Trump! - Let's MAGA!!!)
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To: RKBA Democrat

A repeal should be phrased in a way that makes clear that the Federal government shouldn’t have arrogated such power to itself to begin with, or it should be struck down by the Federal Courts with a Tenth Amendment justification.


35 posted on 11/18/2016 5:55:31 PM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Ouch. Might have offended a few FReepers.

Guess I should kill the rest of that bottle a Wild Turkey tonight and toast Good.


36 posted on 11/18/2016 5:57:16 PM PST by jcon40
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

One does not have to advocate drug use to be against Federal laws prohibiting it.
its a state issue. I’m against mj being illegal under Federal law and against it being legal under VA law.


37 posted on 11/18/2016 5:57:44 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Nigel Farage for US Ambassador to the UN!!)
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To: FredZarguna

The case the Supremes relied on to uphold federal marijuana regulation was a New Deal Era case where the Supreme Court ruled the government could tell a farmer that he could not grow wheat on his own land for his own personal consumption because that was somehow “interstate commerce.” Ridiculous.


38 posted on 11/18/2016 5:58:46 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Paladin2

You mean Mr. MSN?
Let’s poison the world with Vaccines so Melinda and I can stroke ourselves?
THAT Bill Gates??
I give out Mosquito nets instead of DDT?
And yes, I hate Monsanto.
But this arrogant pustule on the butt of America has to GO.


39 posted on 11/18/2016 5:59:57 PM PST by acapesket (all happy now?)
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To: DaxtonBrown

“I’ve been around enough heavy users to see the destruction they bring.”

I’ve been around a lot of heavy cannabis users who work hard, are married with kids & lead a very happy life.


40 posted on 11/18/2016 6:02:06 PM PST by TheStickman (Trump WON! Thank you, God in Heaven!)
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