I thought this admin wasn't going after Marijuana?

I'm trying to get on board with this administration but holy hell, it's frustrating. Rand Paul was my guy but I got on the MAGA train.

Jeff Sessions is a disaster and his stance on Marijuana and civil asset forfeiture is alarming. The marijuana issue has been debated at length here so we won't rehash - the benefits I have seen from living in Denver for 3 years speak for themselves. Tons of tax money, tons of new jobs, etc. etc.

Here's Jeff Sessions today:

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has twice in two days publicly bashed marijuana legalization, abandoning his confirmation-process reticence to discuss the topic and reclaiming his colorful opposition.

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“Marijuana is a cure for opiate abuse? Give me a break," Sessions told the room, discounting what he said was a recent Washington Post headline associating lax pot laws with less opioid abuse, a link demonstrated by research.

"This is the kind of argument that’s been made out there, almost a desperate attempt to defend the harmlessness of marijuana or even its benefits,” Sessions said. “I doubt that’s true. Maybe science will prove I’m wrong, but at this point in time you and I have a responsibility to use our best judgment – that which we’ve learned over a period of years – and speak truth as best we can. My best view is that we don’t need to be legalizing marijuana.”

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Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, a Republican who has been personally opposed to legalization despite her state’s pioneering recreational marijuana initiative in 2012, tells U.S. News she is concerned about Sessions' remarks.

Elected in 2014, Coffman told colleagues in 2015 that legalization was "not worth it.” But she says that now she believes things have gone “better than I thought they would.” “We’ll send him a letter and say, ‘You need to come to Colorado and visit us and see what we’re doing with regulation and enforcement before coming in with some sort of edict,'” she says.

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Don't we have more important shite to worry about?



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