Congress kicks Sessions in the ass with a big FAIL!!!!

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  1. Congress Gives Jeff Sessions $0 To Go After Medical Marijuana Laws | The Huffington Post
    WASHINGTON ― Congress, once again, is blocking the Justice Department from spending any money that interferes with state medical marijuana laws.

    In their newly unveiled budget bill, lawmakers included a provision, known as the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, that allows states to carry on with crafting their own medical marijuana policies without fear of federal intervention. The bill, which funds the government through the end of September, is expected to pass this week.

    Here’s the full text of the marijuana provision:

    None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect to any of the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, or with respect to the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico, to prevent any of them from implementing their own laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.

    It’s not unusual to find this tucked into a budget bill; lawmakers have been renewing the medical marijuana provision in every consecutive budget since it first passed in 2014. But what it shows is that Congress isn’t interested in stepping up federal oversight of state pot laws under the Trump administration, even as U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions hints that he wants a crackdown.

    He issued an ominous warning in February to states with legalized marijuana. “States, they can pass the laws they choose,” Sessions said at a Justice Department press briefing. “I would just say it does remain a violation of federal law to distribute marijuana throughout any place in the United States, whether a state legalizes it or not.”

    He has also said that “good people don’t smoke marijuana” and that pot is only “slightly less awful” than heroin. Last year, heroin killed nearly 13,000 people. Nobody has ever died from a marijuana overdose.
     
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  2. I'd like to see him tell former President George W. Bush that he's not a good person for smoking marijuana before.

    Wonder what he would say to Bush for his cocaine experimentation haha
     
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  3. Definitely a positive, lets hope the old shit doesn't find any money to go after any rec states either
     
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  4. Unfortunately, the scope is only medical marijuana. Does that mean the DOJ is free to go after non-medical use, distribution, possession, or cultivation in states have seen the light and legalized it?
     
  5. Yeah. It protects medical use, but it questions recreational. The DOJ regrets legalizing alcohol and they do not want to add rec. marijuana to the list.
     
  6. Some people seem to keep forgetting that DOJ is part of a "government of the people, by the people, for the people". The pendulum has already swung in favor of state by state legalization. Oh yah, let's not forget about the concept of "states rights": That which is closer to the people does a better job of meeting the needs of the people.
     
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  7. Something tells me Sessions will not last very long.
     
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  8. Maybe it depends if Sessions is "loyal" to Trump. :) Notably, Director Comey gave the wrong answer to that question.
     
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  9. Sessions is an out of touch old man.
    He needs some truthful cannabis education, but seems extremely stubborn.

    I bet he loves his scotch though...
     
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