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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“You blatantly state numerous times that all laws, even unconstitutional laws, are to be obeyed and enforced...”
Your either hallucinating or mistaken regarding whom you saw write that.
(I’d bet on the former).
“Worse because alcohol can kill in one session of drinking, pot has no lethal level. “
Good. You’re getting a bit more specific that generic leftist bromides such as what you wrote in 294, “...alcohol is by far more dangerous [than pot] in the short term and the long term.”
“Worse because alcohol can kill in one session of drinking”
Water also can kill in one session of drinking.
Your constant statist positions make you far more leftist than anyone else here. You ad-hominems still aren’t arguments. As far as “bromides” go it was simply an economy of words to say what anyone with a brain already knows is a fact. People don’t drink water to get high so ... non-sequitur straw man.
You stated: “Worse because alcohol can kill in one session of drinking, pot has no lethal level.”
You are defining worse as more dangerous in one session.
Water can kill in one session when used recreationally.
Is water therefore more dangerous than pot?
People don’t ingest water recreationally. Same non-sequitur straw man as before.
“Thankfully we didn’t elect Mao Tse Dong II.”
So, effective action against the invaders would make Trump the equivalent of a child-molesting mass murderer, in your view?
No, but what it would take would be really stupid economically and politically. It would be far better to motivate them to leave voluntarily.
“No, but what it would take would be really stupid economically and politically.”
Not at all. Our actual unemployment rate has been over 25% for more than ten years. Worse than the first Great Depression.
The giant sucking sound of invaders returning home would be followed by the giant sucking sound of white men flowing back into the work force.
As for “politically,” there are no longer any political concerns wrt the left’s war on humanity. We either fight, or we go under.
“It would be far better to motivate them to leave voluntarily.”
It would be better than doing too little too late. However, I don’t see Trump doing nearly enough in that regard, either.
Whether it’s done with bayonets or some other incentive, Trump could have done it by now.
I’m sorry that Trump is such a disappointment to you.
“I’m sorry that Trump is such a disappointment to you.”
I supported him from day one, and continue to support him.
However, I do think that he is poorly advised. I do not think he realizes the depth or breadth of the evil he faces.
I’m sorry that you think Trump is so naive.
“I’m sorry that you think Trump is so naive.”
And I’m sorry you haven’t noticed Trump making mistakes out of naiveté regarding the abysmal evil of the demonrats.
I’m sorry that you think Trump is making mistakes.
“I’m sorry that you think Trump is making mistakes.”
And I’m LMAO that you don’t think he’s made any, and that you think smarminess is appropriate in a discussion like this.
I’m sorry that you think we’re having a discussion.
“I’m sorry that you think we’re having a discussion.”
I was just being polite.
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