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Law Enforcement Backs Sessions’s Ending of Hands-Off Approach to Marijuana
freebeacon ^ | January 7, 2018 | Charles Fain Lehman

Posted on 01/07/2018 5:15:44 AM PST by MarvinStinson

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To: edzo4

I am a total fan of Jeff Sessions. There are some things I’m not on board with, but his approach will bring sense back to the AG’s office because there is logic to what he does. It’s not all reactionary hysterical emotionalism, “the end justifies the means” stuff. Sessions is refreshing after what we’ve been through with previous administrations.


61 posted on 01/07/2018 7:56:43 AM PST by BlackAdderess (MAGA!)
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To: BlackAdderess

All session did was speed up the process. If you are against weed being legal you will be sorely disappointed.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/06/jeff-sessions-marijuana-legalization-congress-216251


62 posted on 01/07/2018 8:15:58 AM PST by edzo4 (Democrats playbook = promise everything, deliver nothing, blame someone else.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Granny Clampett Session’s folly will do great harm. The MJ jackboots are way out of step with most voters.


63 posted on 01/07/2018 8:16:56 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative.)
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To: edzo4

Yes when they live in green states.


64 posted on 01/07/2018 8:19:39 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: edzo4

Yes, as I said, logical approach to things. It is likely that pot growers will have something more stable at the end of this which will free them from coercion.


65 posted on 01/07/2018 8:24:03 AM PST by BlackAdderess (MAGA!)
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To: edzo4

Soros has spent many times more than anyone else to destroy the US.

But you don’t want that mentioned?

Why?


66 posted on 01/07/2018 8:25:10 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Because the money wasted on chasing weed far outpaces any money Soros has spent on anything especially your made up conspiracy. And btw your neighbors smoke weed, your kids and grandkids smoke weed, their friends smoke weed and your co-workers smoke weed. You just don’t know it.


67 posted on 01/07/2018 8:34:41 AM PST by edzo4 (Democrats playbook = promise everything, deliver nothing, blame someone else.)
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To: edzo4
Soros Behind Marijuana Decriminalization in Mass.

By STEVE LeBLANC, Associated Press | August 28, 2008
http://www.nysun.com/national/soros-behind-marijuana-decriminalization-in-mass/84769/

BOSTON — A measure that would decriminalize minor marijuana-possession cases is on the ballot in Massachusetts largely because of one man: billionaire financier and liberal activist George Soros.

Of the $429,000 collected last year by the group advancing the measure, $400,000 came from Mr. Soros, who has championed similar efforts in several states and spent $24 million to fight President Bush's 2004 re-election bid. The Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy needed about $315,000 of that just to collect the more than 100,000 signatures that secured a spot on the ballot, according to campaign finance reports reviewed by the Associated Press.

68 posted on 01/07/2018 8:48:57 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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States rights


69 posted on 01/07/2018 9:00:10 AM PST by The Right wing Infidel
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To: gogeo

I think the supreme court has ruled on it, that it is potentially interstate, so under federal power.


70 posted on 01/07/2018 9:03:53 AM PST by vmpolesov
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To: MarvinStinson

Yes? What is it with you faux conservatives and being against states rights


71 posted on 01/07/2018 9:03:56 AM PST by The Right wing Infidel
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To: MarvinStinson

Pot can grow in a swamp, maybe Sessions has misunderstood “draining the swamp”.


72 posted on 01/07/2018 9:05:18 AM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....Dirty Bob Mueller)
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To: The Right wing Infidel

What is it with you drug legalization advocates claiming to be conservatives?


73 posted on 01/07/2018 9:07:25 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson
Well thank you for proving my point. $400,000 oh my the horror!!!

How about $300,000,000 spent just this year.

http://www.drugsense.org/wodclock.htm

and over trillion spent since 1971, fighting something the majority have tried:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-poll-finds-majority-americans-have-smoked-pot-n747476

That a majority (even republicans) don't think should be illegal.

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/25/559989879/all-time-high-majority-of-republicans-support-pot-legalization-for-first-time

And is less dangerous than alcohol or tobbaco, both of which govco happily regulates and taxes despite the death and destruction they cause.

https://www.sciencealert.com/marijuana-is-much-safer-than-alcohol-and-tobacco-new-study-finds

Here's my crackpot conspiracy theory if I wanted to take Down a county that was in debt trillions I would get them to waste even more money on ridiculous things of no value.

74 posted on 01/07/2018 9:09:27 AM PST by edzo4 (Democrats playbook = promise everything, deliver nothing, blame someone else.)
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To: MarvinStinson

These threads all seem to align the same way. But the most disturbing are those who post that really don’t accept the conservative view here.

One can argue that pot is bad. There are several studies that point to that. One can argue that pot is good. There are new emerging studies that point to that. By the same token, anything in excess is bad regardless of the good and bad.

What folks here — on this particular forum — shouldn’t be able to argue is that — regardless of your position on pot itself — the laws that were used to implement its prohibition, including the 1937 Marihuana Act and the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, were derived and invented on very shaky Constitutional grounds. This is especially obvious when looking at what it took to prohibit — and make available again — alcohol.

You don’t have to be a pro-pot person to understand why this should and must be a State issue. Constitutionally, the Federal government has no right in this realm, unless they take the step of creating an Amendment that would override the boundaries of the 10th Amendment. And no, the Supremacy Clause should not apply here, as a strict reading of that clause states very clearly that it only applies to laws “made in Pursuance” of the Constitution — not laws outside of its purview.

Congress does need to act, but not to enforce it’s wrongly-derived law, but to fix it by passing it back to the States.

It is likely this will go to the Supreme Court with so many States now on board. I’m hoping that the Originalists on the court will rule with the Constitution, and not jump through hoops (like Roberts is want to do) to come up with some vaporous reason to keep Federal prohibition in place.


75 posted on 01/07/2018 9:09:42 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: MarvinStinson

I support states rights, it should be up to each states to decide what drug is legal or not


76 posted on 01/07/2018 9:10:27 AM PST by The Right wing Infidel
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To: MarvinStinson

Oh Lordy. Here we go again with a pointless Drug War. We haven’t enriched the cartels enough. Of course the narcs need all that pocketable cash.


77 posted on 01/07/2018 9:15:05 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: MarvinStinson

Of course the law enforcement industry supports this policy. It’s a huge money-maker for them.


78 posted on 01/07/2018 9:20:25 AM PST by zeugma (I always wear my lucky red shirt on away missions!)
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To: yldstrk

The Federal law can be changed. people on our side want the laws on the books in this country enforced. Picking and choosing is not an option.

Ask your lawmakers to change the law. Problem solved. Employers in those states also have a right to disallow people engaging in drugs a job.


79 posted on 01/07/2018 9:26:28 AM PST by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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To: MarvinStinson
"This experiment of giving cover to drug dealers has had fatal consequences. When marijuana was ‘legalized' in Colorado, traffic-related deaths due to marijuana rose from 13% to 20%. This is costing people their lives," he said.

Traffic related deaths "due" to marijuana may have risen, since they're looking for it, and marijuana byproducts linger in your blood for a while. Funny thing though, since pot was legalized there, total traffic fatalities have somehow gone down. Guess no one gets drunk there anymore? I mean if pot definitely causes more accidents, but the total went down, more pot must mean a lot less of something else that causes more wrecks!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-us-state-where-road-fatalities-have-plummeted-since-marijuana-was-legalised-10499069.html
80 posted on 01/07/2018 12:50:55 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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