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SHRED

(28,136 posts)
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 10:34 AM Jan 2018

Jeff Sessions wants the war on a plant escalated

What is going to happen?


Sessions to rescind Obama-era rules on non-interference with states where pot is legal

(CNN)In a seismic shift, Attorney General Jeff Sessions will announce Thursday that he is rescinding a trio of memos from the Obama administration that adopted a policy of non-interference with marijuana-friendly state laws, according to a source with knowledge of the decision.

While many states have decriminalized or legalized marijuana use, the drug is still illegal under federal law, creating a conflict between federal and state law


http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/04/politics/jeff-sessions-cole-memo/index.html
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Jeff Sessions wants the war on a plant escalated (Original Post) SHRED Jan 2018 OP
States rights and all that crap... Docreed2003 Jan 2018 #1
Red states rights BeyondGeography Jan 2018 #8
It's not about weed as much as it's about keeping private prisons profitable. no_hypocrisy Jan 2018 #2
Sci-Fi writer Larry Niven envisioned a society like that. Girard442 Jan 2018 #3
Political Suicide HopeAgain Jan 2018 #4
States rights "except when we disagree". nt Ferrets are Cool Jan 2018 #5
i just got my Bloombox from BC Northern Lights... samnsara Jan 2018 #6
I hope that party feels the wrath hibbing Jan 2018 #7
The Feds could shut them all down CountAllVotes Jan 2018 #9

Docreed2003

(17,808 posts)
1. States rights and all that crap...
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 10:37 AM
Jan 2018

Except for the wacky weed, for that...that needs the federal government to intervene.

BeyondGeography

(40,015 posts)
8. Red states rights
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 12:11 PM
Jan 2018

Blue states, another matter. First the tax bill now this. Civil economic war is on. May we ask what is the point of the Republican Party in blue states? The first Democrat who does will go to the head of the class.

no_hypocrisy

(48,813 posts)
2. It's not about weed as much as it's about keeping private prisons profitable.
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 10:37 AM
Jan 2018

(Please excuse the alliteration.)

Obviously without enough federal convictions to keep the private prisons occupied, more enforcement of established "crimes" is the only answer to subsidize these endeavors.

Girard442

(6,404 posts)
3. Sci-Fi writer Larry Niven envisioned a society like that.
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 10:46 AM
Jan 2018

Except, in the world he envisioned, people due to receive the death penalty had their organs harvested for transplanting. Problem was, not enough people were being be executed to satisfy the demand, so they just kept adding the death penalty to more and more offenses to increase the supply of replacement organs.

HopeAgain

(4,407 posts)
4. Political Suicide
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 10:48 AM
Jan 2018

In the middle of an opioid crises, it would seem to me to be political suicide to go after marijuana now.

The tide for legalization is huge... the army of Bubbas who voted for Trump like their weed as much as anyone. The mobilization of young voters is the last thing the Republicans want. Arresting people who carefully followed their State law will appear to be a terrible injustice to all but the the religious right wackos.

I know it causes terrible injustice to not have legalization, but going after pot could be one of the last thing this alt-right/religious-right Republicanism does. I can't say I want to see it happen, but I can't say it might not actually be better in the long term.

samnsara

(18,282 posts)
6. i just got my Bloombox from BC Northern Lights...
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:40 AM
Jan 2018

...pot is legal in my state but I'm taking no chances. Check them out....

hibbing

(10,402 posts)
7. I hope that party feels the wrath
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 11:41 AM
Jan 2018

I just can't imagine states giving up the massive tax dollars. I can't even imagine how many tax dollars California will get after a year. I guess it will never be legal where I live until well after I've been planted myself, it sucks.

Peace

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