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Sessions made ‘cataclysmic mistake’ with marijuana policy change, says ex-Trump adviser Roger Stone
The Washington Times ^ | January 6, 2018 | Andrew Blake

Posted on 01/07/2018 6:40:30 AM PST by MarvinStinson

Attorney General Jeff Sessions made a “cataclysmic mistake” by rescinding Obama-era federal marijuana policies, according to Roger Stone, President Trump’s former campaign adviser.

Mr. Stone, 65, formed a bipartisan, pro-marijuana lobbying group earlier this year, the United States Cannabis Coalition, “dedicated to influencing federal level decision makers, including the president, so they honor state’s rights and state mandated marijuana laws as well as reform our antiquated and failed federal drug laws,” according to its website.

Mr. Stone, the president’s campaign adviser through August 2015, criticized the attorney general’s recent decision to roll back marijuana protections during a luncheon Friday at the Tiger Bay Club of Central Florida, the Orlando Sentinel reported afterwards.

The Department of Justice has outlawed marijuana for decades, but the Obama administration put in place policies that allowed dozens of states to legalize the plant without prompting federal interference. Mr. Sessions nullified those policies on Thursday, however, casting uncertainty over the future of existing medical and recreational marijuana programs already in place across the country.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abuse; addiction; cannabis; chemicaldependency; drugabuse; marijuana; pot; potheads; tenthamendment; weaklingsondrugs; wod
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To: MarvinStinson



The guy's last name explains his bias.

We may as well cast stones at the stoners because they want nothing more than to be stoned. :)



21 posted on 01/07/2018 7:02:52 AM PST by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: Vaquero

It is my thought that an arrest and store closing will be the trigger for the defense appealing to SCOTUS

But I have no clue as to what can relly happen


22 posted on 01/07/2018 7:03:58 AM PST by Thibodeaux (2018 is looking good)
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To: rawcatslyentist

Lots of parroting of Soros talking points on this thread.


23 posted on 01/07/2018 7:04:10 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson
Marijuana is about #4761 on my Give-a-Crap list.

As a matter of fact, who, besides the liquor industry and the drug cartels really worry about the legality of weed?

24 posted on 01/07/2018 7:04:20 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (High taxes + Government = Disorganized Crime)
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To: MarvinStinson
MJism and Alcoholism are just symptoms of a culture that's FAILed to produce anything better.

FooFoo Sessions and the L.I.F.E.R. prison industrial complex are a symptom of the same thing.

Hillary in jail yet?

25 posted on 01/07/2018 7:04:35 AM PST by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: FrankR

“If there is a LAW against pot, then how could Colorado, or Obama, or any of his people, just, all-of-a-sudden make it LAWFUL?”

That was the work of Soros puppets Obama and Holder.


26 posted on 01/07/2018 7:05:47 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

The hammer needs to drop on the illegal grows that are massively impacting communities and the environment. Dope smoking is most certainly not a “victim less crime”.


27 posted on 01/07/2018 7:06:38 AM PST by lodi90
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To: Spok

Really? I guess you don’t understand that we have thousands of crimes on the books that are never enforced.


28 posted on 01/07/2018 7:06:39 AM PST by The Cuban
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To: rawcatslyentist
Governments trade in Cocaine and Heroin/Synthetics.

Not enough profit in weed.

29 posted on 01/07/2018 7:06:45 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (High taxes + Government = Disorganized Crime)
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To: Artemis Webb

Stone is correct, another huge mistake by Sessions. Sessions is hurting this president.


30 posted on 01/07/2018 7:06:50 AM PST by jpsb
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To: DouglasKC

Please show me where in the constitution the Federal Government is given the authority to ban a plant.


31 posted on 01/07/2018 7:07:22 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: Aevery_Freeman

“Marijuana is about #4761 on my Give-a-Crap list.”

Umtil a potheads drives straight at you and your family.


32 posted on 01/07/2018 7:07:36 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Did Sessions make a deal with El Chapo?


33 posted on 01/07/2018 7:08:05 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: bigdaddy45

US Controlled Substanes Act.


34 posted on 01/07/2018 7:08:47 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: equaviator

Good pothead “thinking.”


35 posted on 01/07/2018 7:09:59 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: RKV
A libertarian thinker! The bane of politicians everywhere.

It is amazing how totalitarian in thought many conservatives are.

36 posted on 01/07/2018 7:10:27 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (High taxes + Government = Disorganized Crime)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

You couldn’t be more wrong.


37 posted on 01/07/2018 7:11:08 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

I said in the Constitution. Just because the Feds pass some act that doesn’t make it constitutional. Try again.


38 posted on 01/07/2018 7:11:28 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: MarvinStinson

Yeah...It’s bad enough that we have people in their 70s, 80s and 90s driving around with all kinds of drugs in their systems, and now you can add marijuana to the list of things you’ll find in the bloodstreams of the elderly in America.


39 posted on 01/07/2018 7:12:03 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Sessions is putting it back where it belongs - the Congress can either change the laws or accept that laws have consequences - they cannot blithely allow them to stand and be ignored for political convenience.


40 posted on 01/07/2018 7:13:12 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone? I think Trump may give it back...)
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