Posted on 07/23/2017 10:14:54 AM PDT by Mariner
The Trump administration is readying for a crackdown on marijuana users under Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
President Trump’s Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety, led by Sessions, is expected to release a report next week that criminal justice reform advocates fear will link marijuana to violent crime and recommend tougher sentences for those caught growing, selling and smoking the plant.
Sessions sent a memo in April updating the U.S. Attorney’s Offices and Department of Justice Department (DOJ) component heads on the work of the task force, which he said would be accomplished through various subcommittees. In the memo, Sessions said he has asked for initial recommendations no later than July 27.
“Task Force subcommittees will also undertake a review of existing policies in the areas of charging, sentencing, and marijuana to ensure consistency with the Department's overall strategy on reducing violent crime and with Administration goals and priorities,” he wrote.
Criminal justice reform advocates fear Sessions’s memo signals stricter enforcement is ahead.
“The task force revolves around reducing violent crime and Sessions and other DOJ officials have been out there over the last month and explicitly the last couple of weeks talking about how immigration and marijuana increases violent crime,” said Inimai Chettiar, director of the Brennan Center's Justice Program.
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I guess he can think of nothing better to do with the resources of the DOJ.
Trump needs to “off” this old coot today. He is an embarrassment to the administration.
Good Grief
Remove that hack Sessions now!
I was originally a Sessions supporter, but this is absurd. Among all the problems we have in this country, weed is about as low on the list as you can get. Sessions is painfully out of touch with reality.
Meanwhile Hillary Clinton walks around as free as a bird.
I’m sure prosecuting the Clintons is somewhere on his to-do list.
Sessions is part of the swamp.
Trump is a teetotaler on alcohol and drugs. Does anyone have evidence that he does not approve of this policy?
Not everyone agrees, and that's fine w moi. That said, I happen to agree that marijuana increases crime, and it messes up a lot of young folks and sends them down the wrong path.
“The task force revolves around reducing violent crime and Sessions and other DOJ officials have been out there over the last month and explicitly the last couple of weeks talking about how immigration and marijuana increases violent crime,”
About time.
Look how fast the stoner liberal fake conservatives turn on Sessions.
Second term mayyyyybe
Oh, Fer Pete’s Sake! I can list a dozen OTHER things that should be ‘cracked down’ on these days - starting with Hillary’s! fat, demented head!
Booze does way worse. You think we should bring Prohibition back?
Also, keep in mind that AG Sessions is stopping and reversing the invasion of the US, he's putting criminal non-citizens out of business, and he's created a strict enforcement environment that's cut down on maniacs to "protesting" (rioting).
He ain’t going to drain the swamp by killing weed.
:o/
Sessions is not a war time Consigliere.
As for me, I’ve never smoked it - much less inhaled it, but this is just stupid.
It’s a bad habit I would say, but I’m not one with no bad habits of my own. (some maybe worse)
How do you stop something that can be grown in a closet? Also, State after Sate Is legalizing marijuana. I don’t do drugs myself but the shit is very popular and stopping it is akin to Prohibition.
Sessions is an old fool to waste the time and resources of the DOJ when Trump and his supporters are fighting to keep this country free from the clutches of the Left.
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