Sessions rescinds Obama-era directive on eased federal marijuana enforcement for legalized states - Polidicks

[quote]Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rescinding an Obama-era directive that discouraged enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that had legalized the substance, according to people familiar with the decision. The move potentially paves the way for the federal government to crack down on the burgeoning pot industry — though the precise impact remains to be seen. Marijuana already was illegal under U.S. law, even as federal prosecutors had been advised against bringing cases involving it in states that approved its use and sale. [/quote] [url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-is-rescinding-obama-era-directive-for-feds-to-back-off-marijuana-enforcement-in-states-with-legal-pot/2018/01/04/b1a42746-f157-11e7-b3bf-ab90a706e175_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&tidr=a_breakingnews&utm_term=.3c568e17df9e[/url]

I bet this is totally in retaliation to the recent legalization of recreational use in California. Fuck off.

Cory Gardner (R-Colorado) is furious [media]https://www.twitter.com/SenCoryGardner/status/948934654685601792[/media]

[QUOTE=Bob The Knob;53026178]Cory Gardner (R-Colorado) is furious [media]https://www.twitter.com/SenCoryGardner/status/948934654685601792[/media][/QUOTE] "We are deeply concerned," Gutless Republican burbles as he toes party line.

More than a little bit speculatory, but murmers are that this massively unpopular decision may have been a deliberate push from Trump to create grounds to dismiss Sessions -- thus opening up a chance for him to install a more malleable attorney general to exert pressure on Rosenstein and Mueller's investigation.

This administration's days are numbered. This is the Republicans using up every ounce of distraction they can to prevent a total collapse from the Russian investigation.

States' rights only count when it's things Republicans like.

But I thought Republicans were against Big Government deciding the rights of states? :why:

I'd like to see them try and get fucked by Cascadia + Colorado (our mountain brother)

Party of small government wants to jail people for a literally harmless drug

How infuriating. Didn't they practically preach giving more power to the states the entire campaign?

[QUOTE=Jeezy;53026565]How infuriating. Didn't they practically preach giving more power to the states the entire campaign?[/QUOTE] More power -- Unless you're doing something they don't like. Then no.

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;53026215]More than a little bit speculatory, but murmers are that this massively unpopular decision may have been a deliberate push from Trump to create grounds to dismiss Sessions -- thus opening up a chance for him to install a more malleable attorney general to exert pressure on Rosenstein and Mueller's investigation.[/QUOTE] :tinfoil:

Worth noting that Sessions specifically assured that he would [B]not[/B] be doing this during his confirmation hearings. A good few GOP legislators are pretty damn upset about this. While a majority of the GOP is as backwards on this as you'd expect, marijuana legalization has support of a significant chunk of GOP voters, and there is a vein among the GOP party that feels this isn't a hill worth dying on. This has managed to piss off both sides of the aisle.

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;53026601]Worth noting that Sessions specifically assured that he would [B]not[/B] be doing this during his confirmation hearings. A good few GOP legislators are pretty damn upset about this. While a majority of the GOP is as backwards on this as you'd expect, marijuana legalization has support of a significant chunk of GOP voters, and there is a vein among the GOP party that feels this isn't a hill worth dying on. This has managed to piss off both sides of the aisle.[/QUOTE] yeah but it was Obama era, that means its bad!

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;53026597]:tinfoil:[/QUOTE] I know it's a stretch, but it's not one that should be immediately discounted. Nobody was asking for this shit, and damn near everybody is pissed off about it. Calls on both sides of the aisle are coming up to #FireSessions, or otherwise demanding Sessions' resignation. One of Trump's biggest frustrations was that Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation and refused to use his position to publicly attack it. He's railed about it at length in the past, and it was long suspected that Sessions was the next high profile firing for Trump's revolving door administration. However, the increased heat from Mueller's investigation made doing so without causing massive unrest an impossibility. Likewise, Sessions knew that he could not simply resign out of the blue without facing scrutiny in light of the circumstances -- if resigning were something that he was interested in (might be, if only to distance himself from this shit show). That Trump's strategic team might come up with a somewhat roundabout solution to the Sessions problem makes sense. Massive public backlash from both sides of the aisle would give plausible deniability for the reasoning behind Sessions' dismissal, and the appointment of a new, "loyal," AG who does not share an obligation to recuse himself would give the administration a foot in the door to quietly sabotaging the investigation from behind the scenes. After all, Mueller's team must request a continuance on a regular basis to be allowed to continue investigation. A Trump-appointed AG could refuse to grant such a continuance. It's something to consider, at least.

The Republican party, otherwise known as the party of wasting everyone's time until another democrat is in office

"Small government" is such a stupid fucking dog whistle. Moral degenerates like Sessions don't give one single shit about reducing government waste and overreach as a political philosophy. They just want to be able to attack and dismantle everyone who doesn't conform to their backwards primitive ideology while simultaneously having no such restrictions placed upon themselves. "Small government" just means "I don't want the feds to tell me I can't disenfranchise black voters"

[QUOTE=Jeezy;53026565]How infuriating. Didn't they practically preach giving more power to the states the entire campaign?[/QUOTE] Why yes, they wanted to give the states more power to ban transexuals from public bathrooms, ban abortions, not accept refugees, and ban gay marriage. Not to legalize pot though, stoners can go fuck themselves in the Republicans' minds. [QUOTE=Big Dumb American;53026601][B]Worth noting that Sessions specifically assured that he would [B]not[/B] be doing this during his confirmation hearings.[/B] A good few GOP legislators are pretty damn upset about this. While a majority of the GOP is as backwards on this as you'd expect, marijuana legalization has support of a significant chunk of GOP voters, and there is a vein among the GOP party that feels this isn't a hill worth dying on. This has managed to piss off both sides of the aisle.[/QUOTE] I'm sure he doesn't recall any of that.

[URL="https://np.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5t2eii/prediction_marijuana_will_be_rescheduled_at_the/"]this didn't age well[/URL]

"THE MARIHUANAS ARE BAD!!!" said Sessions while smoking a cigarette and drinking alcohol, both of which kill tens of thousands of people a year while there have been no recorded deaths linked to the use of cannabis.

Ah Bluestate warfare at the worst. This could flip any blue state republican seats because pretty much all these states have legalized it through referendum, and its all pretty popular

[QUOTE=Sableye;53027989]Ah Bluestate warfare at the worst. This could flip any blue state republican seats because pretty much all these states have legalized it through referendum, and its all pretty popular[/QUOTE] Marijuana legalization is fairly popular on both sides of the isle. this is gonna hurt the GOP, I guarantee it

[QUOTE=TheHydra;53027144][URL="https://np.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5t2eii/prediction_marijuana_will_be_rescheduled_at_the/"]this didn't age well[/URL][/QUOTE] If you scroll to the bottom of this, you'll see a discussion that's been downvoted out of view. I wonder what that conversation says? [QUOTE][–]iliveinabathtub -9 points 10 months ago Considering that Jeff Sessions thinks marijuana should be illegal for both recreational and medicinal purposes and does not believe that good people smoke marijuana I think it is much more likely that he will crack down on states that have legalized it than reschedule it. permalinkembedsave [–]Jblaze056ID 7 points 10 months ago You have not been following the campaign at all if you think this is likely. permalinkembedsaveparent [–]Badblackdog 4 points 10 months ago Exactly, Sessions will advance Pres. Trumps agenda not his own. [/QUOTE] [editline]5th January 2018[/editline] Fucking hilarious. They were downvoting their own people back then just because it went against the group think. I can't fucking fathom these people.

I still don't see why he needs to jail people for marijuana so badly. Like this is just obsession.

[QUOTE=Speedhax;53029381]I still don't see why he needs to jail people for marijuana so badly. Like this is just obsession.[/QUOTE] It's more than that. There's only one reason [URL="https://theintercept.com/2018/01/04/cartersville-georgia-ounce-marijuana-arrests-weed/"]70 people would be arrested and charged with possession of marijuana because less than an ounce was found at a house party[/URL]: almost all of them were black.

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;53029499]It's more than that. There's only one reason [URL="https://theintercept.com/2018/01/04/cartersville-georgia-ounce-marijuana-arrests-weed/"]70 people would be arrested and charged with possession of marijuana because less than an ounce was found at a house party[/URL]: almost all of them were black.[/QUOTE] Let me guess, the local courthouse has contracted a private prison?

[QUOTE=Bob The Knob;53026178]Cory Gardner (R-Colorado) is furious [media]https://www.twitter.com/SenCoryGardner/status/948934654685601792[/media][/QUOTE] tall words for somebody that's going to bend like a blade of grass in the wind. Republicans don't hold up nominations, not when they are serfs to the GOP kings. [editline]6th January 2018[/editline] [QUOTE=Lambeth;53028028]Marijuana legalization is fairly popular on both sides of the isle. this is gonna hurt the GOP, I guarantee it[/QUOTE] that's exactly what I'm hoping for. Blue state republicans are generally in very conservative districts but in places like California, those very districts make up the heart of weed country there. Those reliable conservative voters, young and old will hopefully flip democrat, if only to support legalization. Hopefully anyways, if the NRA can do it, Weed might be able to.

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;53029550]Let me guess, the local courthouse has contracted a private prison?[/QUOTE] It's Georgia. [QUOTE=article]...the two Georgia counties that make up Atlanta and some of its surroundings have some of the most racially disproportionate rates of marijuana arrests in the U.S., according to a 2013 study by the American Civil Liberties Union. I was warned about this radius around Atlanta — where the rules change — when I first moved to the city to attend Morehouse College in 1997. [B]During our first week of orientation at the historically black college, our campus police department and freshman dean had flat-out told us that we should expect to be confronted with blatant racism if we traveled more than 15 miles in any direction from campus[/B]. The warning went on: [B]If we traveled more than 30 miles out of Atlanta and got in any type of trouble, it was unlikely they could help us.[/B] Cartersville is a good 45 miles from the city — well past that invisible 30-mile barrier we were warned to never cross. It’s Trump country: The president got 76 percent of the vote there. The KKK distributed newspapers on lawns throughout the city before the election plastered with Donald Trump’s face and his “Make America Great Again” slogan. This past November when a black family put a house under contract in Cartersville, it got vandalized and had the letters “KKK” spray-painted everywhere.[/QUOTE]

lots of politicians are hopping on the bandwagon for having sessions step down.