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Trump's DOJ will release a report this week that is linking marijuana to violent crime
Posted on 7/23/17 at 6:12 pm
Posted on 7/23/17 at 6:12 pm
The Trump administration is readying for a crackdown on marijuana users under Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
President Trump’s Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety, led by Sessions, is expected to release a report next week that criminal justice reform advocates fear will link marijuana to violent crime and recommend tougher sentences for those caught growing, selling and smoking the plant.
Sessions sent a memo in April updating the U.S. Attorney’s Offices and Department of Justice Department (DOJ) component heads on the work of the task force, which he said would be accomplished through various subcommittees. In the memo, Sessions said he has asked for initial recommendations no later than July 27.
“Task Force subcommittees will also undertake a review of existing policies in the areas of charging, sentencing, and marijuana to ensure consistency with the Department's overall strategy on reducing violent crime and with Administration goals and priorities,” he wrote.
Criminal justice reform advocates fear Sessions’s memo signals stricter enforcement is ahead.
“The task force revolves around reducing violent crime and Sessions and other DOJ officials have been out there over the last month and explicitly the last couple of weeks talking about how immigration and marijuana increases violent crime,” said Inimai Chettiar, director of the Brennan Center's Justice Program.
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President Trump’s Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety, led by Sessions, is expected to release a report next week that criminal justice reform advocates fear will link marijuana to violent crime and recommend tougher sentences for those caught growing, selling and smoking the plant.
Sessions sent a memo in April updating the U.S. Attorney’s Offices and Department of Justice Department (DOJ) component heads on the work of the task force, which he said would be accomplished through various subcommittees. In the memo, Sessions said he has asked for initial recommendations no later than July 27.
“Task Force subcommittees will also undertake a review of existing policies in the areas of charging, sentencing, and marijuana to ensure consistency with the Department's overall strategy on reducing violent crime and with Administration goals and priorities,” he wrote.
Criminal justice reform advocates fear Sessions’s memo signals stricter enforcement is ahead.
“The task force revolves around reducing violent crime and Sessions and other DOJ officials have been out there over the last month and explicitly the last couple of weeks talking about how immigration and marijuana increases violent crime,” said Inimai Chettiar, director of the Brennan Center's Justice Program.
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Posted on 7/23/17 at 6:14 pm to silverdude
Glad to know they have their priorities right!
Posted on 7/23/17 at 6:15 pm to silverdude
Sessions is an authoritarian who needs to be put out to pasture.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 6:16 pm to silverdude
So much damn money pissed away on the WoD, yet I as a 29 year old non-drug user can score cocaine, heroin, peptides, marijuana, meth, and any other drug by driving less than 5 miles from my apartment in New Orleans with almost zero chance of getting caught.
It's a damn farce.
It's a damn farce.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 6:18 pm to silverdude
Edited title: GOP concedes Colorado.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 6:26 pm to silverdude
When the GOP fought gay marriage incessantly in the early 2000s, it only hastened gay marriage being made legal much, much sooner.
The same thing will happen with marijuana legalization. Sessions is going to get a rude awakening that it's not the 70s and 80s anymore.
If the democrats make it a wedge issue against republicans like they did with gay marriage, Trump and sessions will only have themselves to blame for squandering an issue that could've expanded the base.
The same thing will happen with marijuana legalization. Sessions is going to get a rude awakening that it's not the 70s and 80s anymore.
If the democrats make it a wedge issue against republicans like they did with gay marriage, Trump and sessions will only have themselves to blame for squandering an issue that could've expanded the base.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 6:27 pm to silverdude
this worked out really well during the prohibition era. Great move Trump!
Posted on 7/23/17 at 6:28 pm to silverdude
All it ever linked for me is cementing my arse to the couch.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 6:29 pm to Sentrius
The GOP sucks balls
Sessions is fricking garbage
Sessions is fricking garbage
Posted on 7/23/17 at 6:30 pm to silverdude
As much as Trump is in touch with what a number of voters think, he is completely tone deaf on this issue.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 6:33 pm to mmcgrath
There is some truth to it. When you buy pot illegally you are financing criminal activity, maybe even the Mexican Cartels.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 6:33 pm to antibarner
Bunch of no good druggies in this thread
Posted on 7/23/17 at 6:33 pm to Rakim
quote:
Sessions is fricking garbage
There's leaks everywhere with no announced indictments yet, he's allowing a witch hunt of the duly elected administration to go on under his nose with Mueller, there's more work to be done on illegal immigration, and the only thing he's worried about is fricking marijuana, civil asset forfeiture and bullying states on those two things?
God he sucks rotten arse and is trying to unseat Eric Holder as the worst AG ever.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 6:34 pm to mmcgrath
I dont think he is in touch, its that his ingrained views happen to coincide with a particular segment. Thus his inability to extrapolate to other issues like this one.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 6:35 pm to antibarner
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When you buy pot illegally you are financing criminal activity, maybe even the Mexican Cartels.
So make it legal and take away that revenue stream from the cartels.
There is a reason why the cartels are opposed to legal weed. It hurts their business.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 6:36 pm to antibarner
quote:If that is the "link", then the ONLY thing linking it to violent crime is the law against it.
There is some truth to it. When you buy pot illegally you are financing criminal activity, maybe even the Mexican Cartels.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 6:36 pm to antibarner
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When you buy pot illegally you are financing criminal activity, maybe even the Mexican Cartels.
So direct the money toward legalisation... problem solved.
Of course that doesnt fix the problem of revenue loss for the invested parties in the WOD.
Posted on 7/23/17 at 6:39 pm to silverdude
I can't fathom the amount of taxpayer money spent chasing marijuana, from the policing to the court costs to the imprisonment to the welfare going to the kids because their dad is in jail for a victimless crime. Anyone who claims to be small government and yet supports Sessions and his battle on mj is full of shite.
This post was edited on 7/23/17 at 6:41 pm
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