Real Federalists Need to Step Up to Fight Jeff Sessions' War on Weed

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Real Federalists Need to Step Up to Fight Jeff Sessions' War on Weed

The Attorney General's reversal on marijuana is out of step with states rights and public opinion.

Veronique de Rugy | January 18, 2018

You would think that the Justice Department has better things to do than to restart a federal war on marijuana or that it would want to stay away from interfering with the will of the people in the 29 states, plus the District of Columbia, that allow at least the medical use of marijuana. But you would be wrong. Thanks to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, we have now an emerging conflict between federal and state laws. That conflict should be resolved in favor of the states.

When he was a senator, Sessions once said during a Senate hearing, "Good people don't smoke marijuana." So nobody was surprised when a few weeks ago, he revoked the Cole memo—a document that provided guidance to federal prosecutors about targeting sales to children, money laundering and sales across state lines, as opposed to targeting the legal state sale of medical and recreational pot.

The memo was a poor alternative to revoking the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, which, the Cato Institute's Trevor Burrus writes, "defined marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug, meaning that it has no accepted medical uses and has a high potential for abuse." He adds, "Despite advances in our understanding of the medical benefits of marijuana, and despite 29 states having legalized medical marijuana in some form, federal law treats marijuana (as if it were) as dangerous as heroin." Note that cocaine, which has recognized medical uses, is a Schedule II drug.

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http://reason.com/archives/2018/01/18/real-federalists-need-to-step-up-to-figh

[truth_seeker]

Sessions should devote his attention to more important matters. He has been a major disappointment.

Wasting federal resources on weed, shows very poorly chosen priorities.

That lack of judgment alone, ought to mean Sessions exit fairly soon.

Peter Principle--in over his head. 

[EasyAce]

Sessions should devote his attention to more important matters. He has been a major disappointment.

Wasting federal resources on weed, shows very poorly chosen priorities.

That lack of judgment alone, ought to mean Sessions exit fairly soon.

Peter Principle--in over his head.

@truth_seeker
Between that and his stubborn refusal to consider asset forfeiture a crime in its own right, Sessions should go or be dumped. Whichever comes first.