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Sessions now wants to prosecute legal medical marijuana
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:12 am
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:12 am
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions is asking congressional leaders to undo federal medical marijuana protections that have been in place since 2014, according to a May letter that became public Monday.
The protections, known as the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, prohibit the Justice Department from using federal funds to prevent certain states "from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession or cultivation of medical marijuana."
In his letter, first obtained by Tom Angell of Massroots.com and verified independently by The Washington Post, Sessions argued that the amendment would "inhibit [the Justice Department's] authority to enforce the Controlled Substances Act." He continues:
I believe it would be unwise for Congress to restrict the discretion of the Department to fund particular prosecutions, particularly in the midst of an historic drug epidemic and potentially long-term uptick in violent crime. The Department must be in a position to use all laws available to combat the transnational drug organizations and dangerous drug traffickers who threaten American lives.
Sessions's citing of a "historic drug epidemic" to justify a crackdown on medical marijuana is at odds with what researchers know about current drug use and abuse in the United States. The epidemic Sessions refers to involves deadly opiate drugs, not marijuana. A growing body of research (acknowledged by the National Institute on Drug Abuse) has shown that opiate deaths and overdoses actually decrease in states with medical marijuana laws on the books.
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Kind of kills the "he just wants to enforce existing law" narrative this board believes in...
ETA for those thinking the title is misleading...
This post was edited on 6/13/17 at 8:47 am
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:13 am to NYNolaguy1
Only a matter of time before he goes after the dispensaries in Colorado.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:14 am to NYNolaguy1
Hey idiots, keep blathering on about RUSSIA when real issues like this go unchecked.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:15 am to NYNolaguy1
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Kind of kills the "he just wants to enforce existing law" narrative this board believes in...
Congress can fix this in a heartbeat by declassifying marijuana like they should have done decades ago. Unfortunately, too much money at stake for either side of the aisle to go for that.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:15 am to NYNolaguy1
I can say that medical marijuana played a big part in helping my aunt beat cancer. I do not support Sessions' notion.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:15 am to NYNolaguy1
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The Department must be in a position to use all laws available to combat the transnational drug organizations and dangerous drug traffickers who threaten American live
Black Markets are never known to be violent.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:17 am to NYNolaguy1
Hope you Trumpkins are happy now
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:18 am to Putty
quote:The schedule is controlled by the Attorney General and the Dept of hhs.
Congress can fix this in a heartbeat by declassifying marijuana like they should have done decades ago.
This post was edited on 6/13/17 at 8:20 am
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:18 am to Dire Wolf
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Black Markets are never known to be violent.
This seems like a great idea. Make black markets great again!
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:18 am to SDVTiger
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You cant trust wapo
If I showed you another link would it matter?
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:19 am to NYNolaguy1
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Sessions now wants to prosecute legal medical marijuana
but it's illegal.....
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:19 am to NYNolaguy1
Your use of now kinda implies he wasn't always this a-hole.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:19 am to NYNolaguy1
Damn this elf and his crusade.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:20 am to Deuces
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I can say that medical marijuana played a big part in helping my aunt beat cancer. I do not support Sessions' notion.
I was skeptical of Colorado's medical policy because it just seemed like a cheap way to legalization and it was mostly abused(not that I care).
However, I can see the medical benefits with a good friend of mine's father who has cancer. He has been struggling with back pain and on oxycontin for months. In order to get off of the OC, he started eating brownies. Turns out it worked better for him and he slowly is getting off of OC
This post was edited on 6/13/17 at 8:22 am
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:20 am to HailToTheChiz
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but it's illegal.....
To prosecute medical marijuana federally.
There are laws now that make sure no funds go toward enforcement. Sessions wants to change that by changing the current law.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:21 am to MoarKilometers
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Your use of now kinda implies he wasn't always this a-hole.
His justification before was that he was just enforcing existing law. Now he wants to change the law so he can prosecute as he wishes. Prosecutors shouldn't be able to change the law and prosecute it as they wish.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:23 am to NYNolaguy1
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Sessions's citing of a "historic drug epidemic" to justify a crackdown on medical marijuana
How does the author come to the conclusion that it's medical marijuana he's after? His petted supposedly says...
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The Department must be in a position to use all laws available to combat the transnational drug organizations and dangerous drug traffickers who threaten American lives.
That doesn't point to medical MJ.
This post was edited on 6/13/17 at 8:25 am
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:24 am to Toddy
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Hope you Trumpkins are happy now
ecstatic! as long as he doesn't make scotch illegal i simply don't care but that's me i'm a grown up.
now eat a bag o' dicks queer.
Posted on 6/13/17 at 8:25 am to NYNolaguy1
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To prosecute medical marijuana federally.
There are laws now that make sure no funds go toward enforcement. Sessions wants to change that by changing the current law.
My point is that it has been illegal this whole time, and the government has just turned a blind eye to it.
That being said, i think it should be up to each state whether they want to make it legal or not
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