Posted on 03/02/2017 5:15:18 AM PST by HomerBohn
While Trump may claim he’s for states rights, Attorney General Jeff Sessions just pissed on the opinions of about 71% of Americans who do not believe the federal government should attempt to ram federal laws down the throats of states where voters have legalized marijuana.
After Press Secretary Sean Spicer essentially warned everyone last week that the Trump administration plans to crack down on states with recreational marijuana laws, AG Sessions backed that up on Monday with some bizarre statements that prove the guy actually believes Reefer Madness was a documentary.
Via Politico:
“Most of you probably know I don’t think America is going to be a better place when more people of all ages and particularly young people start smoking pot,” Sessions said during an exchange with reporters at the Justice Department. “I believe it’s an unhealthy practice and current levels of THC in marijuana are very high compared to what they were a few years ago.”
“We’re seeing real violence around that,” Sessions said. “Experts are telling me there’s more violence around marijuana than one would think and there’s big money involved.”
. If there is any “violence” around marijuana, it’s due entirely to the black market created by the phony drug war, not the actual drug itself, as pointed out by chairman of the drug policy reform group Marijuana Majority Tom Angell:
By talking about marijuana and violence, the attorney general is inadvertently articulating the strongest argument that exists for legalization, which is that it allows regulated markets in a way that prohibition does not.
Prohibition keeps drug cartels in business and needlessly puts thousands of Americans behind bars.
But then again, that must be why Sessions also reversed the DOJ plan to phase out the for-profit prisons last week; they’re going to need somewhere to put all those non-violent drug offenders once the federal crackdown on a benign plant legalized in over half the country begins.
without a taco or some other munchie in they’re other hand i can’t picture it..
Thanks for the troll thread from a troll source.
Marijuana lacks the physiological markers for addiction. Users can be psychologically dependent, but addiction to marijuana doesn’t scientifically exist.
That said, having smoked marijuana in my younger years, I can tell you that not only did I not want to be on the road, if I was, I drove like I was 90 years old and in the far left lane. There was no “barreling.”
Drug policy should be given back to the states, IMO.
*Far RIGHT lane.
Maybe I should lay off the hash.
It is one thing to support Sessions as I have against a bogus campaign to undermine the election with a preposterous claim about the Russians and quite another to support Jeff Sessions on his marijuana nonsense.
I had hoped that this was at least one milestone we had finally passed before final, inevitable surrender in the long, hopeless and costly war on drugs.
The article is pure conjecture based on little by leftist prejudice.
I am 100% against recreational drug use. I can buy medicinal marijuana for people with chronic or terminal disease.
However, I also think this is a perfect example of how the 10th Amendment should work. Go ahead, Colorado, be the test case. But, 49 other states should lay back for ten years and see what happens, then make your decision.
Instead, the doofus political class sees a bandwagon and wants to jump on it just because that’s what the cool kids are doing.
there is financial interest in putting out these stories for short sellers too.. a lot of pot stocks out there
what the hell is going on at the DOJ...Sessions is going after pot heads? Really?? What happened to Hillery?? Why isn’t there a full blown investigation of her by the DOJ? Why piss off a couple of states and the pot heads living in them? We don’t need more enemies. Go after the real enemy.....
LOCK......HER......(nasty ass)........UP!!!!!!
“I am 100% against recreational drug use.”
Is your objection religious or are you just virtuous?
The United States is a signator to a treaty which prohibits the legalization of marijuana. By allowing states to engage in legalization and legitimizing the trafficking in marijuana, the US would be in violation not only of existing federal laws but treaties. Sessions is only indicating his intention to enforce existing laws.
Are we a nation of laws?
That was going to be my point. Barreling... yeap, lost me there.
I think the DOJ has some MUCh bigger fish to fry first.
Multitasking
Drug policy should be given back to the states,
I agree.
A lot of what the Federal Government regulates should return to the States. Also, a lot of what the Federal Government pays for should return to the States.
There's nothing wrong with Jeff Session's intellect. This article is pretty stupid, however.
Keep whistling as you walk past the cemetery.
Any nutjob barreling down the highway at me while texting is a danger, regardless of whether they are smoking a joint or not. So why not have the Justice Department go after them?
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