Another barry soetoro policy about to get overturned

[Team Sergeant]

There goes my dreams of being the Pot King of Calif.......

Going to be amusing to see how many arrests are made.







Attorney General Sessions to end Obama-era policy that let legal pot flourish
FOXNEWS

Attorney General Jeff Sessions plans to roll back an Obama-era policy that had allowed legal marijuana to thrive without federal intervention, Fox News confirmed Thursday.

The Obama administration back in 2013 announced via a memo from then-Deputy Attorney General James Cole that it would not obstruct states that legalized marijuana, on the condition the drug was not allowed to move to states where it was illegal and it was kept away from children and gangs.

Sessions is expected to announce that he will rescind that memo and instead leave it to U.S. attorneys in states where the drug is legal to decide to what extent they will enforce federal laws.

The Associated Press reported that the move will likely add to confusion among users and suppliers about whether they can grow, buy and sell marijuana in states -- as federal law bans it.

The government regards marijuana as a controlled dangerous substances, grouped together with drugs such as heroin. Sessions has blamed its increased use for spikes in violence in the U.S.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018...-flourish.html

[Ret10Echo]

on the condition the drug was not allowed to move to states where it was illegal and it was kept away from children and gangs.

AaaaaaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.....

Dope-Free-Zone

[bblhead672]

Originally Posted by Ret10Echo

AaaaaaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.....

Dope-Free-Zone

Washington DC needs to be turned into a Dope-Free-Zone. But then we'd need to have elections to replace the 535 dopes in Congress.

[Streck-Fu]

....leave it to U.S. attorneys in states where the drug is legal to decide to what extent they will enforce federal laws.

I do not believe marijuana should be illegal and do not support federal prohibitions of most anything but this is an ok compromise for now. There is no scientific justification for the government's classification as a dangerous drug.
And the prohibition drives the associated crime just like with alcohol prohibition.

EDITED: On second thought, Sessions is pretty hard core for MJ enforcement so I doubt anything will come from this except more aggressive federal actions in states with legal weed. This is much more important than going after Hillary, or the other associated criminals...

[rsdengler]

LOL...Looks like Cheech and Chong will be out of a job.......

[Streck-Fu]

soooo we just ignore the law?

Sure.

What may be the law is not always right. Why knowingly enforce terrible laws? Continued enforcement will only put officers and citizens unnecessary risk.

[cbtengr]

Originally Posted by Streck-Fu

Sure.

What may be the law is not always right. Why knowingly enforce terrible laws? Continued enforcement will only put officers and citizens unnecessary risk.

So like Barry you can be the arbiter of terrible laws? As brush stated either enforce the law or change it. This shit they are smoking today is not your Daddy's ditch weed.

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by Streck-Fu

This is much more important than going after Hillary, or the other associated criminals...

Opinions vary.

[Streck-Fu]

Originally Posted by Badger52

Opinions vary.

I should have put in pink.

[sfshooter]

How about "X" state voting in submachine guns and suppressors for all. How far do you think that would go? Laws are put there to be enforced for whatever the reason fat ass politicians decide on. Go through congress to change it if everyone thinks its such a crappy law. Otherwise enforce the damn thing.

Without rule of law (enforcing such) there is no civil society and this country's last bonehead leader dumped whatever he didn't want to uphold, which has put this country in some state of civil unrest.....no rule of law being enforced.

I'm guessing some people remember all the damn rioting the last couple of years and all the ass clowns destroying property. Wonder what the dope infused level of all those wonderful citizens was?

[CSB]

The best way to cause the repeal of a bad law is to strictly enforce it.

[sfshooter]

Originally Posted by CSB

The best way to cause the repeal of a bad law is to strictly enforce it.

Thank you sir! You are much better at words than I am.

[JJ_BPK]

Originally Posted by CSB

The best way to cause the repeal of a bad law is to strictly enforce it.

This was another TAX grab by FDR and the 1930t's SJW'ers.

Marihuana Tax Act of 1937
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marihuana_Tax_Act_of_1937

The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, Pub.L. 75–238, 50 Stat. 551, enacted August 2, 1937, was a United States Act that placed a tax on the sale of cannabis.

The H.R. 6385 act was drafted by Harry Anslinger and introduced by Rep. Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina, on April 14, 1937.

The seventy-fifth Congress held hearings on April 27, 28, 29th, 30th, and May 4, 1937. Upon the congressional hearings confirmation, the H.R. 6385 act was redrafted as H.R. 6906 and introduced with House Report 792.

The Act is now commonly referred to, using the modern spelling, as the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act.

This act was overturned in 1969 in Leary v. United States, and was repealed by Congress the next year.[1]

Rather than go thru repeal, it may be tweakable??

The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) is the statute establishing federal U.S. drug policy under which the manufacture, importation, possession, use and distribution of certain substances is regulated. It was passed by the 91st United States Congress as Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 and signed into law by President Richard Nixon.[1] The Act also served as the national implementing legislation for the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.

The legislation created five Schedules (classifications), with varying qualifications for a substance to be included in each. Two federal agencies, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), determine which substances are added to or removed from the various schedules, although the statute passed by Congress created the initial listing. Congress has sometimes scheduled other substances through legislation such as the Hillory J. Farias and Samantha Reid Date-Rape Prevention Act of 2000, which placed gamma hydroxybutyrate in Schedule I. Classification decisions are required to be made on criteria including potential for abuse (an undefined term),[2][3] currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and international treaties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act

The DEA and FDA have the authority to ADD or REMOVE..

It does not need congress critters intervention..

An Executive Order by POTUS could help but is also not needed.

[Streck-Fu]

All I needed to know about the ridiculousness of weed prohibition, I learned from Harry Anslinger....

There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.

Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men.

Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.

You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother.

[Dean Jarvis]

Originally Posted by Streck-Fu

I do not believe marijuana should be illegal and do not support federal prohibitions of most anything but this is an ok compromise for now. There is no scientific justification for the government's classification as a dangerous drug.
And the prohibition drives the associated crime just like with alcohol prohibition.

EDITED: On second thought, Sessions is pretty hard core for MJ enforcement so I doubt anything will come from this except more aggressive federal actions in states with legal weed. This is much more important than going after Hillary, or the other associated criminals...

I couldn't agree more. I get so tired of these sensational TV news reports showing a car trunk full of marijuana and making it seem like they are making some kind of impact on the availability of marijuana and next week we'll see it again and again, it's never ending and the prohibition only drives crime in our communities. How many doors have been kicked in, LEO's killed, and innocent people murdered trying to stop the use of marijuana. If they want to get serious about it they need to target the demand side of the problem. Once you start locking up the white collar recreational user you might start seeing some impact on it's use. They won't tackle that approach because of the cost to incarcerate all of them. My solution has been to take an old military basic training complex with a mess hall, barracks and throw a chain link fence around it. I guarantee you that 99pct of inmates, being made up of your average employed citizen and family man would not attempt to escape a low level security prison. They just want to get the hell out and back to their family and jobs asap and never do it again.

As for Sessions....this wingnut is a major disappointment. His limited focus seems to be immigration and marijuana laws. Believe me, we have much bigger fish to fry and he better get with the program.