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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

So clearly you aren’t a big fan of the Constitution I gather. Well I am.

And for the record, the big drug cartels LOVE the status quo. It gives them the monopoly they wouldn’t otherwise have.

Do you want to keep trying? Because you’re not proving to be very good at this.


61 posted on 01/07/2018 7:34:31 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: Vaquero

I’m a little dismayed by your apparent obsession with cannabis.


62 posted on 01/07/2018 7:34:42 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: RKV
I was careful to use the small "l" because the political party often seems not very libertarian.

Libertarian Party is something of an oxymoron.

63 posted on 01/07/2018 7:35:15 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (High taxes + Government = Disorganized Crime)
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To: proust; MarvinStinson

Actually Soros $ funded the original push for legalizing dope, his $ funded all the pro-dope orgs in many states.

You got it wrong. Soros is very strongly pro-legalizing mj.


64 posted on 01/07/2018 7:37:00 AM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Bulwinkle



handed the Dems a whopper get out the young vote.... the young vote when dole is an issue

Right. The lazy weak slothful potheads in their 20s are gonna raise their useless asses from their parents's couches to do something useful like vote.



65 posted on 01/07/2018 7:37:18 AM PST by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: MarvinStinson
<>"Umtil a potheads drives"<>

Who can argue with that!

66 posted on 01/07/2018 7:38:19 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (High taxes + Government = Disorganized Crime)
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To: bigdaddy45

None of these prohibitionists will admit to endorsing the Wickard Commerce Clause. However, that is exactly what they’re doing.

They put the stamp of legitimacy on a SCOTUS decision which opened the door to fedgov control of education, health care, the environment etc.


67 posted on 01/07/2018 7:38:50 AM PST by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: bigdaddy45

bigdaddy45 is an “expert” on the US Constitution and on what big drug cartels want.

He just doesn’t realize that he is parroting Soros talking points.


68 posted on 01/07/2018 7:39:41 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

I’m obsessed with a man like Sessions recusing himself of the high crimes and misdemeanors of the 2016 presidential election and making, literally, a FEDERAL CASE out of a State’s Rights issue.


69 posted on 01/07/2018 7:42:12 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: little jeremiah; proust; MarvinStinson



soros has a vested financial interest in destroying people, economies, and countries. The freeflow of drugs is one of his tools to achieve this destruction and thus build his wealth.

Team Pothead is either clueless or comfortable with the fact that they are useful-idiot pawns on soros's chessboard.



70 posted on 01/07/2018 7:43:22 AM PST by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
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To: MarvinStinson
It made a few Governors Drug Lords ?
71 posted on 01/07/2018 7:44:35 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: MarvinStinson

Your posts are highly amusing.


72 posted on 01/07/2018 7:45:45 AM PST by KEVLAR (Liberty or Death)
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To: MarvinStinson

Let’s try again, shall we? Please show me where in the US Constitution the Federal Government is given the authority to ban a plant? Or do you not care about the Constitution? Or do you think it’s “fluid” and not necessarily to be read as written?


74 posted on 01/07/2018 7:48:04 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: MarvinStinson

I don’t care about what potheads do in the privacy of their own home. Stone is right.


75 posted on 01/07/2018 7:48:35 AM PST by bjcoop
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To: MarvinStinson
All Stone, et.al want to do is sell dope to the stupid masses who think it's okay to smoke 'mother nature'.

Don't believe me all you FRee thinking potheads on this site? Talk to the real estate agents in the know about empty warehousing being quietly bought or leased in anticipation of big grows once marijuana is de-scheduled. Personally, I've been offered buys or land contracts on my country properties for this express purpose.

Be warned, Big Marijuana is here to ruin your life and the lives of your children.
76 posted on 01/07/2018 7:49:33 AM PST by farming pharmer
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To: Sacajaweau

I don’t care what people decided to put in their systems. It’s up to them. You either believe in freedom or you don’t


77 posted on 01/07/2018 7:49:55 AM PST by bjcoop
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To: bigdaddy45

“.......bipartisan, pro-marijuana lobbying group....”

Perhaps Sessions is the beneficiary of the lobby groups excess fortunes.


78 posted on 01/07/2018 7:50:21 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: MarvinStinson

You’re getting a little too personal. Maybe you should actually care about limited government since you’re on this site.


79 posted on 01/07/2018 7:51:09 AM PST by bjcoop
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To: RKV
Very true. My study on the original drug laws allowing the Feds to tax it to obtain a tax stamp that was never issued was, at the time, considered by the proponents as very sketchy from a Constitutional perspective but they knew for a fact that an outright law against it would be unconstitutional and the tax aspect was the best they could do.

Good illustration of how far we've fallen in terms of freedom as we give up rights to various "wars"; war on terrorism, war on cocaine, war on meth and now the war of the week, the war on opioids.

Seems to me if they want to talk about "miserable failures" the war on drugs and the war on poverty should be at the top of the search results.

The land of the free my big white butt. Give 'em the really good dope and let them OD and cleanse the gene pool. A free people are not protected from themselves by their government.

80 posted on 01/07/2018 7:52:31 AM PST by Proud_texan (McCarthy was right)
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