Posted on 02/28/2017 10:37:25 AM PST by deplorableindc
ttorney General Jeff Sessions has twice in two days publicly bashed marijuana legalization, abandoning his confirmation-process reticence to discuss the topic and reclaiming his colorful opposition.
On Tuesday, Sessions told a Washington ballroom packed with state attorneys general – many of them in charge of defending laws that conflict with federal prohibition – that pot legalization should be resisted, though he did not describe any specific plans to challenge state-regulated markets.
Attorneys general of three states with laws allowing for recreational sales told U.S. News after the remarks that Sessions needs to clarify his intentions.
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I’m with Session here. Change the law. Or shut up.
No, the “tax stamp” strategy was used back when the FedGov still tried to make a pretense of following Constitutional limits. Since 1970 they have simply outlawed it completely as a Schedule 1 narcotic, like heroin. The FDA bureaucrats claim they have authority to do this based on a simple act of Congress.
Pot heads are to lazy to get off the couch and get the federal laws changed. Does anyone else see the irony in this?
What they should do is pass a federal statute allowing states to opt out of federal marijuana laws so that Sessions doesn’t need to deal with this.
I know a lot of pot smokers. They admit that moderation is not the goal. For them it is ether go to 30,000 feet or don’t take off at all.
That's ridiculous. https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa63/aa63.htm
Maybe you pot smokers are having second thoughts? Maybe you should have voted for the Witch of Chappaqua.
Sessions has bigger fish to fry.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
They are talking about heavy drinkers. I am talking about people that use alcohol in moderation. Nobody uses pot in moderation that I know. When they pick up the pipe they are not finished until they are completely baked.
Any thoughts on the Tenth Amendment with regard to this issue?
This is not a road the Trump admin should go down. Allow states to make their own policies in this area. Focus on the big issues.
You need to move on from this subject Jeff.
State issue and people are going to get high no matter what.
Further, criminalizing users is stupid and unprofitable as well.
Sure, you may get a fine but, no way the covers the cost of their incarceration, parole oversight, etc.
You should instead work on decriminalizing use, Legalizing that market, regulate and tax it.
Make it a market you can actually tax to grow revenues instead of wasting time and money on this loser objective.
who drives in Manhattan?
Regarding mixed feeling, I stated this in another thread:
As a matter of liability, I would think feds, most states, and any sane employers would want to restrict recreational use just so they cant get sued when someone is killed from a drug/work related accident. Same as you would alcohol on the job, except for the argument of how long drug effects remain and impair judgment vs alcohol impairment time lines.
I think states have already opened a Pandora’s box of sorts by legitimizing the pot industry. I would think those citizens that are not stoned already would be upset about having to pay taxes for legal fees and law suits that result from highway deaths, etc involving legalized drugs by the state. From the states point of view, they could have remained silent and not gone after recreational users, while still keeping their hands clean of responsibility of legalizing. If you want to legalize, then you have to regulate. And that costs money as well. As a tax payer, I really don’t want to be paying for that behavior one way or the other.
So yeah, I agree that Sessions has more important things to work on. But he has a mandate to enforce “the law”. The law needs to be revisited on many levels.
Pot has caused more people to miss the exit on the highway than any other drug.
Go Sessions! Legalized pot and so called “medical” marijuana had led and is leading to the moral and cultural rot of American society.
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