Smoke up, Johnny. Jeff is gonna take your stash away.

In April, he said, “Good people don't smoke marijuana,” and that it was a "very real danger" that is “not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized.” Sessions, who turns 70 on Christmas Eve, has called marijuana reform a "tragic mistake" and criticized FBI Director James Comey and Attorneys General Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch for not vigorously enforcing a the federal prohibition that President Obama has called “untenable over the long term.” In a floor speech earlier this year, Senator Sessions said: "You can’t have the President of the United States of America talking about marijuana like it is no different than taking a drink… It is different….It is already causing a disturbance in the states that have made it legal.”

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Then again - guy sounds like an old moran. Not exciting.

CheesySpartan wrote:LOL...Yeah...None of this will happen.  Fear-mongering

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."

In his letter, first obtained by Tom Angell of Massroots.com and verified independently by The Washington Post, Sessions argued that the amendment would "inhibit [the Justice Department's] authority to enforce the Controlled Substances Act."

Turtleneck wrote:Yup. Fear-mongering.

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."

In his letter, first obtained by Tom Angell of Massroots.com and verified independently by The Washington Post, Sessions argued that the amendment would "inhibit [the Justice Department's] authority to enforce the Controlled Substances Act."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/13/jeff-sessions-personally-asked-congress-to-let-him-prosecute-medical-marijuana-providers/?utm_term=.e8204769eb50

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:Yup. Fear-mongering.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/13/jeff-sessions-personally-asked-congress-to-let-him-prosecute-medical-marijuana-providers/?utm_term=.e8204769eb50

The good news is that Jeff Sessions won't be able to recall any of this in about 3 days.

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:

So... no more space weed?

Turtleneck wrote:

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:

So... no more space weed?

Are you going to bring space weed to the tailgate?

Turtleneck wrote:Because

What will happen to legal marijuana under President Trump?

That's been a vexing question for cannabis advocates ever since Trump named criminal justice hard-liner Jeff Sessions (of “Good People Don't Smoke Marijuana” fame) as attorney general. Although Sessions's beliefs about marijuana legalization are well-known (he hates it), the separate question of what he intends to do about it has so far remained a mystery. But a letter from the attorney general to officials in Washington state, obtained this week by the HuffPost, sheds considerable light on the question.

It suggests that while Sessions remains deeply skeptical of efforts to legalize recreational marijuana use, the Justice Department's actions on the issue are, for now, still dictated by the Cole Memo, an Obama-era document that lays out a policy of federal non-interference with state laws so long as public health and public safety are not threatened.

But the letter also includes a laundry list of public health and safety concerns compiled by federal authorities, potentially laying the groundwork for more aggressive federal interventions in Washington and elsewhere in coming years.

“A letter like this is a pretty important indicator” of Justice's current thinking on marijuana issues, said John Hudak, a drug policy expert with the Brookings Institution. “It tells us that the attorney general is serious about enforcing marijuana law under the Cole Memo.”

But things are suddenly looking rosier for Sessions. Thanks to Congress’ fumbling over the spending bill, the AG’s yearning to battle legal marijuana may get a major boost without him having to lift a finger. That’s because Rohrabacher-Farr, a little-known and even less discussed amendment that protects state-legal medical marijuana programs from federal interference, is close to expiring. If the government shuts down at the expiration of the current continuous resolution on December 22, or if negotiations in an upcoming appropriations conference committee fail to insert it in the final draft of the spending bill—entirely possible given House Republicans’ hostility to marijuana—Sessions would be free to unleash federal drug agents on a drug, which according to federal drug law, is considered the equal of heroin and LSD.

tGreenWay wrote:Going after medical weed is just cruel. Sessions probably owns a boatload of Big Pharma stocks.

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:“This in turn, could drive much of the marijuana industry back in to the black market, where it would once again promote violence and organized crime of the sort that have been a major product of the War on Drugs. Jeff Sessions likes to pose as a great scourge of criminal drug gangs, such as MS-13. But such gangs are likely to be among the major beneficiaries of his efforts to renew the federal war on marijuana.”

tGreenWay wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:

"Like his asset forfeiture policy and his attack on sanctuary cities, Sessions' effort to target marijuana in states that have legalized it is an assault on constitutional federalism, as well as terrible policy. It undermines state autonomy on a policy issue where there is little, if any justification for federally imposed uniformity."

Don't tread on me, bro.

It also runs counter to Donnie's campaign comments.