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Title: Sessions begins his war on pot
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The NY Post
URL Source: https://nypost.com/2018/01/04/sessions-begins-his-war-on-pot/
Published: Jan 4, 2018
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2018-01-04 10:31:43 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 2834
Comments: 47
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rescinding the Obama-era policy that had paved the way for legalized marijuana to flourish in states across the country, two people with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press. Sessions will instead let federal prosecutors where pot is legal decide how aggressively to enforce federal marijuana law, the people said. The people familiar with the plan spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it before an announcement expected Thursday. The move by President Donald Trump’s attorney general likely will add to confusion about whether it’s OK to grow, buy or use marijuana in states where pot is legal, since long-standing federal law prohibits it. It comes days after pot shops opened in California, launching what is expected to become the world’s largest market for legal recreational marijuana and as polls show a solid majority of Americans believe the drug should be legal. While Sessions has been carrying out a Justice Department agenda that follows Trump’s top priorities on such issues as immigration and opioids, the changes to pot policy reflect his own concerns. Trump’s personal views on marijuana remain largely unknown. Sessions, who has assailed marijuana as comparable to heroin and has blamed it for spikes in violence, had been expected to ramp up enforcement. Pot advocates argue that legalizing the drug eliminates the need for a black market and would likely reduce violence, since criminals would no longer control the marijuana trade. The Obama administration in 2013 announced it would not stand in the way of states that legalize marijuana, so long as officials acted to keep it from migrating to places where it remained outlawed and out of the hands of criminal gangs and children. Sessions is rescinding that memo, written by then-Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole, which had cleared up some of the uncertainty about how the federal government would respond as states began allowing sales for recreational and medical purposes. The pot business has since become a sophisticated, multimillion-dollar industry that helps fund schools, educational programs and law enforcement. Eight states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for recreational use, and California’s sales alone are projected to bring in $1 billion annually in tax revenue within several years. Sessions’ policy will let U.S. attorneys across the country decide what kinds of federal resources to devote to marijuana enforcement based on what they see as priorities in their districts, the people familiar with the decision said. Sessions and some law enforcement officials in states such as Colorado blame legalization for a number of problems, including drug traffickers that have taken advantage of lax marijuana laws to hide in plain sight, illegally growing and shipping the drug across state lines, where it can sell for much more. The decision was a win for pot opponents who had been urging Sessions to take action. “There is no more safe haven with regard to the federal government and marijuana, but it’s also the beginning of the story and not the end,” said Kevin Sabet, president and CEO of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, who was among several anti-marijuana advocates who met with Sessions last month. “This is a victory. It’s going to dry up a lot of the institutional investment that has gone toward marijuana in the last five years.” Threats of a federal crackdown have united liberals who object to the human costs of a war on pot with conservatives who see it as a states’ rights issue. Some in law enforcement support a tougher approach, but a bipartisan group of senators in March urged Sessions to uphold existing marijuana policy. Others in Congress have been seeking ways to protect and promote legal pot businesses. A task force Sessions convened to study pot policy made no recommendations for upending the legal industry but instead encouraged Justice Department officials to keep reviewing the Obama administration’s more hands-off approach to marijuana enforcement, something Sessions promised to do since he took office. The change also reflects yet another way in which Sessions, who served as a federal prosecutor at the height of the drug war in Mobile, Alabama, has reversed Obama-era criminal justice policies that aimed to ease overcrowding in federal prisons and contributed to a rethinking of how drug criminals were prosecuted and sentenced. While his Democratic predecessor Eric Holder told federal prosecutors to avoid seeking long mandatory minimum sentences when charging certain lower level drug offenders, for example, Sessions issued an order demanding the opposite, telling them to pursue the most serious charges possible against most suspects. Poster Comment:
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#1. To: Willie Green (#0)
Sleepy Jeff is just a tonedeaf dipshit.
Sessions' favorite movie is “Reefer Madness”
Sessions' favorite movie is “Reefer Madness” Yes, Sir, Ole Jeff really has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword. Attaboy, Jeff....go get ‘em!!! The Battle Hymn of the Republic....nothing could be more appropriate, eh?
Not a big fan of state's rights, are you Parsons? No surprise there. You do realize that Sessions' stance on this is diametrically opposed to Trump's, right?
No, I don’t. Is this just another of your infamous drive-by and drop-off comments to stir shit you are notoriously known for....never furnishing any confirming validations, only links to the opinions of others.? So, since I don’t know....will you please explain Trump’s current stance on marijuana and show exactly what he said....and not what someone says he said. Except of course what Sarah Huckabee Sanders said today. I will accept that since it is her job to speak for Trump....a job which she performs excellently.
That damned Sessions cost me a pretty penny today. Every marijuana STOCK, plummeted today. I had my money almost doubled in 2.5 weeks... and now I'm only up about 15%. I've gotta say, I'm not, nor have I ever been a fan of the federal government out trumping states rights (unless it's a national security issue like sanctuary cities).
A temporary bump. Sessions only rescinded 0bama DoJ's deprioritization order. You still have to find a federal prosecutor in one of the pro-pot states to prosecute a case. So far, no takers and no fed in those states seems likely to pursue these cases. — Josh Lederman (@joshledermanAP) January 4, 2018 Keep your holdings, consider increasing your investment.
Yeah, I'm not changing course... and I am gonna buy more while it's down. Even with the sell off, only one stock is lower than what I paid. I still have my original investment... what I lost was all my gain.
Ah, hindsight. : ) Care to share your favorite wacky weed stock picks? I think I'd buy weed stocks before putting anything into cryptocurrency. You know that you are totally ruining your cartoon villain reputation with Deckard with this. LOL
Cronos and Terra Tech. The Cronos I'll keep. The Terra Tech I'm dumping once it hits .55 a share.
Cronos Group Inc (PRMCF) After you check this page out....then on “GO TO” drop down, select “Performance Report”.
You claim to day trade in your old age sucking the American People dry of their hard earned tax payer money. Now, you are offering "tips" as though you are an authority in sum sort of way on a publick chit-chat channel as a stock advisor. Aren't you spamming LF in reality?
Why would you care about Americans?
Before you ask me about any of my concerns, why don't you reflect upon yourself; as an example the idea that you are sum sort of wannabe, windoze guru to create all kinds of not just silly remarks but STUPID remarcks over Liberator's bs windoze? You are unbelievable in attempts to upsize your ideas. In fact, you have proven yourself to be totally disgusting.
I cannot believe that you as a hater can feel better and elevated somehow, by continually putting other people down. I know you have no belief in the Bible, but I will share a verse anyway so that others may read it: Even taking that message out of Biblical context and putting it into everyday language to paraphrase, it’s still a good message. I will do so now by saying:
Obviously it hit a nerve when I asked bucky, "Why would you care about Americans?".
Yea, and obviously since becoming a Belizean and turning his back on America....this has brought out a certain generic disposition in him so that he has become more adverse to a challenge. What this Belizean thinks, says and does now in America or about Americans matters only to him and no one else. Your question was proper in context and your surmise was indeed true. Do as I do, pay him no mind or heed. The blabbering idiot was born to be ignored. He made his own wicked God forsaken personal decision to leave the shores of OUR beautiful America. He is now simply another forlorn soul without a country drifting aimlessly in his never ending search for his mythical libertarian Shangri La. May peace go with him ...
#42. To: Willie Green (#41)
I understood from his posts that he sold his house in Riverside and moved there. I was just being sarcastic when calling him a “Belizean”. But WAIT....hmmm. Bucky has been known to do radically strange things ... More....hmmmmmm. Maybe this can be turned into a conspiracy theory....and Deckard can go ape shit over yet another one.
I had forgotten that meme about Bucky which you and I put together.
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Fire his useless ass, President Trump.
#2. To: Hank Rearden (#1)
#3. To: Deckard (#2)
Sessions begins his war on pot
.... and his favorite song as he marches into the battle surely has to be:
#4. To: Gatlin (#3)
Attaboy, Jeff....go get ‘em!!!
#8. To: Deckard (#4)
You do realize that Sessions' stance on this is diametrically opposed to Trump's, right?
#9. To: Gatlin (#8)
#10. To: GrandIsland (#9)
That damned Sessions cost me a pretty penny today. Every marijuana STOCK, plummeted today. I had my money almost doubled in 2.5 weeks... and now I'm only up about 15%.
DENVER (AP) – US attorney in Colorado: No change to marijuana enforcement despite Attorney General Jeff Sessions' shift on pot policy
#14. To: Tooconservative (#10)
Keep your holdings, consider increasing your investment.
#15. To: GrandIsland, Deckard (#14)
Even with the sell off, only one stock is lower than what I paid. I still have my original investment... what I lost was all my gain.
#21. To: Tooconservative (#15)
#23. To: GrandIsland, Tooconservative (#21)
#28. To: Gatlin aka the USA AF tater peeler, AKA Stone (#23)
After you check this page out....then on “GO TO” drop down, select “Performance Report”.
#29. To: buckeroo (#28)
You claim to day trade in your old age sucking the American People dry of their hard earned tax payer money.
#30. To: Tooconservative (#29)
#37. To: buckeroo, aka the envious Belize dweller, Tooconservative (#30)
(Edited)
You are unbelievable in attempts to upsize your ideas. In fact, you have proven yourself to be totally disgusting.
You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. Romans 2:1 - New International Version.
Your saying things of disparagement and judging TC does no define who he is; it defines who you are.
#38. To: Gatlin, buckeroo (#37)
#39. To: Tooconservative (#38)
(Edited)
Obviously it hit a nerve when I asked bucky, "Why would you care about Americans?".
#41. To: Gatlin, Tooconservative (#39)
Yea, and obviously since becoming a Belizean and turning his back on America...
Say what??? I must've missed something...
What's this about bucky becoming Belizean?
Replies to Comment # 41. Say what??? I must've missed something... What's this about bucky becoming Belizean?
#43. To: Willie Green (#41)
I had posted the words and you came along and uniquely added the picture.
It was so funny. Post it again here and now if you still have the original.
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