Jeff Sessions personally asked Congress to let him prosecute medical marijuana providers

[ABX]

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."....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/13/jeff-sessions-personally-asked-congress-to-let-him-prosecute-medical-marijuana-providers/?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.50783aebd48a

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

I kinda like JS but he's dead wrong on this. Get busy working on something serious.

[Night Hides Not]

I kinda like JS but he's dead wrong on this. Get busy working on something serious.

Methinks the Peter Principle applies to General Sessions. He's not the strong independent person we need to head the DOJ.

[ABX]

Methinks the Peter Principle applies to General Sessions. He's not the strong independent person we need to head the DOJ.

DC in general has been a perfect example of The Peter Principle for a long time.

[driftdiver]

So we can pass a regulation to prevent the justice department from enforcing federal law BUT you can't build a wall or seek to screen immigrants from terrorist filled nations.

[catfish1957]

DC in general has been a perfect example of The Peter Principle for a long time.

There is a myriad of problems going in this country Mr. Sessions, and Mr. Trump.  Medical Marijuana is not even in the top 100 of those.

Prioritize.....Focus....Prioritize ....Focus.

[Free Vulcan]

I'm not even a supporter of legalizing weed and this doesn't seem a priority considering the DC swamp that needs investigated and prosecuted.

[driftdiver]

I'm not even a supporter of legalizing weed and this doesn't seem a priority considering the DC swamp that needs investigated and prosecuted.

I think the war on drugs is a failure but the legalization of weed is a horrible precedent.  Selective enforcement of the law is dangerous.

[catfish1957]

I think the war on drugs is a failure but the legalization of weed is a horrible precedent.  Selective enforcement of the law is dangerous.

No argument here, but don't you think there are about a 1000 other things that would be a better use of  their time and resources?

[Oceander]

I think the war on drugs is a failure but the legalization of weed is a horrible precedent.  Selective enforcement of the law is dangerous.

What selective enforcement?  The amendment referred to was an example of the sort of cooperative federalism most conservatives usually claim to like. 

[thackney]

I'm not even a supporter of legalizing weed and this doesn't seem a priority considering the DC swamp that needs investigated and prosecuted.

+1

[Frank Cannon]

Sessions has been, is and will always be a toad. He loves big govt' and has some deranged fetish for getting pot legal states while a multitude of real illegalities take place. I hope this screw ball idiot gets destroyed in the hearing and is forced to resign in disgrace.

[driftdiver]

No argument here, but don't you think there are about a 1000 other things that would be a better use of  their time and resources?

 Better then something which breeds organized crime and govt corruption?   Increasing theft and increasing intrusion by the cartels.

[driftdiver]

What selective enforcement?  The amendment referred to was an example of the sort of cooperative federalism most conservatives usually claim to like.

You seem to be an expert on what conservatives claim.

[ABX]

I think the war on drugs is a failure but the legalization of weed is a horrible precedent.  Selective enforcement of the law is dangerous.

Are you a supporter of the 10th Amendment and limiting the federal government's function to what is Constitutionally approved?

(ie, the FedGov has no business enforcing this in the first place).

[Frank Cannon]

Better then something which breeds organized crime and govt corruption?   Increasing theft and increasing intrusion by the cartels.

Crime and corruption doesn't happen when something is legal.

[driftdiver]

Crime and corruption doesn't happen when something is legal.

@Frank Cannon
And yet reports are that both have increased in Colorado since the state legalized weed.

Here in Florida the major pot dealers are now engaged in massive lobbying to keep small dealers out of the market.   Essentially limit the number of dispensaries by law, so that only the big well funded dealers can open them.

I wonder how much they pay to get on the list of approved dispensaries?

[thackney]

Crime and corruption doesn't happen when something is legal.

Depends on the size of the tax.

[catfish1957]

Better then something which breeds organized crime and govt corruption?   Increasing theft and increasing intrusion by the cartels.

Medical Marijuana Industry?  I thought they were cutting into the profits of those cartels

[driftdiver]

Medical Marijuana Industry?  I thought they were cutting into the profits of those cartels

I'm no expert but from what I've heard they are one and the same.   The pot has to be coming from somewhere.

[Frank Cannon]

I wonder how much they pay to get on the list of approved dispensaries?

No more than any local developer pays to get a contract or have a building built or some garbage hauling company pays to get a cities contract.

BTW, evidence shows that the Cartels are being hurt by American hippies growing and selling their own in legal states...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/03/legal-marijuana-is-finally-doing-what-the-drug-war-couldnt/?utm_term=.5199960ea08a

[Fishrrman]

catfish wrote:
"No argument here, but don't you think there are about a 1000 other things that would be a better use of  their time and resources?"

See James Q. Wilson and his "one pane of broken glass" supposition.