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Related: About this forumJeff Sessions Is Making Congress Mad With His Pot Policy, And It May Backfire
It has awakened a sleeping giant, Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher told BuzzFeed News.If Attorney General Jeff Sessions hoped his latest encroachments on marijuana would make politicians back away from legalization, its not working.
Last Monday, three weeks after Sessions gave federal prosecutors wide berth to begin marijuana busts in states where its legal, Phil Scott, the Republican governor of Vermont, signed a bill making Vermont the ninth state to legalize the drug.
The strongest pushback against the Trump administrations new marijuana policy, however, seems to be in Congress where dozens of lawmakers are pushing legislation that would handcuff Sessions on pot.
Ironically, Sessions is sparking more enthusiasm for recreational marijuana on Capitol Hill than any time in Congresss modern history.
It has awakened a sleeping giant, Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said of the way politicians are reacting to Sessions repealing the Cole memorandum, a policy from the Obama administration that tolerated pot companies in states that legalized the drug.
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Jeff Sessions Is Making Congress Mad With His Pot Policy, And It May Backfire (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
Feb 2018
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safeinOhio
(34,090 posts)1. Thanks Jeff
for helping me get my friends out to vote this November.
mountain grammy
(27,277 posts)2. Repressed little fucker, isn't he?
yuiyoshida
(42,725 posts)3. He probably needs a to be an
Authoritarian just like the Trump Administration seems to want.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)4. So when Congress, come 2019, does legalize
or at least let this be a state issue Trump will sign it right away. Who am I kidding? Hell veto it right away. Mr let the states decide will do anything but. Trump is too beholden to Big Pharma, alcohol, tobacco, private prisons, etc., etc., etc., so on and so forth.