Trump to Cut Down on Recreational Marijuana Laws

During yesterday's news conference, press secretary Sean Spicer says allowing recreational marijuana to stand is encouraging the abuse of other drugs.

"When you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this country, the last thing we should be doing is encouraging people... there is still a federal law that we need to abide by when it comes to recreational marijuana and drugs of that nature."

What you said of going to "...lose a lot of voters with this" That is totally their objective. They want to use this to make him lose a lot of folks. If he had said they said they weren't going to pursue them, then the enemy would have said "Ah-HAH - he is being SELECTIVE on which laws to enforce". AND, if he enforces it then there WILL BE DIVISIONS in his base on this. Which is exactly the plan. To splinter - divide and conquer. They know what items are big Hot issues. And what will divide the libertarians, hard-core conservatives, youths, and the number of everyone else who came out for Trump. They are totally going after everything. We can't let these poison arrows divide us. But meet it with solutions!!!

Which means the Congress needs to change/repeal some federal laws ...

I'm not sure which laws those would be however if that's what's required then Congress should do it.

I don't buy the argument that legalization would "encourage" more folks to smoke pot or do more dangerous drugs. Medical Marijuana is legal here in Illinois and I have two conditions that qualify for it. I'm not running out and asking my doctor for a prescription. There are other ways to manage the pain I have and I opt to use those.

If however there comes a point in time where those methods stop working and medical marijuana is the next logical step, I may opt to try it.

I've also seen extracts from marijuana (which do not require smoking) help those with Parkinsons disease stop shaking so much, for example. I think there's any number of treatments that medical marijuana or extracts from marijuana seems to work well with. The problem as I see it is the big drug industry cannot control it and profit highly from it and that may be behind all the efforts to keep it illegal.

Think about it: You can grow it at home, extract methods are published on YouTube that are easy to follow and one doesn't need a "middle man" to grow/harvest/convert it for use. Cut out big pharma and what do we have? A burgeoning cottage industry that literally takes care of itself.

The more I think about it, I don't see the downside to legalization. Tax it, regulate it like tobacco and alcohol and be done with it.

I'm not sure which laws those would be however if that's what's required then Congress should do it.

Since the topic was recreational marijuana, the federal laws concerning it might be a start. right or wrong, they are the laws of the land and either need to be validated or repealed if some folks are to have their way. Perhaps Trump will get around to asking lawmakers to start reviewing a lot of laws for constitutionality the way he is having the departments review regulations.

Like Sessions said - he's there to enforce the laws, right or wrong, and if folks don't want that, they need to work to get the laws changed/repealed.

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