Article from The AP by Sadie Gurman.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rescinding the Obama-era policy that had paved the way for legalized marijuana to flourish in states across the country, two people with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press. Sessions will instead let federal prosecutors where pot is legal decide how aggressively to enforce federal marijuana law, the people said.
The people familiar with the plan spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it before an announcement expected Thursday.
The move by President Donald Trump’s attorney general likely will add to confusion about whether it’s OK to grow, buy or use marijuana in states where pot is legal, since long-standing federal law prohibits it. It comes days after pot shops opened in California, launching what is expected to become the world’s largest market for legal recreational marijuana and as polls show a solid majority of Americans believe the drug should be legal.
While Sessions has been carrying out a Justice Department agenda that follows Trump’s top priorities on such issues as immigration and opioids, the changes to pot policy reflect his own concerns. Trump’s personal views on marijuana remain largely unknown.
Read the entire article at The AP.
wpDiscuz
I just do not understand how anyone believes it is the job of any level of government should enable people to use drugs.
*
The easiest way to control a population would be to ease the use of these kinds of drugs.
There is no legitimate reason for the federal government to ban drugs and there is no evidence to support that legalizing drugs would make it easier to control the population. The number of people that want to consume marijuana but do not because it is illegal is statistically indistinguishable from zero.
The knowledge that marijuana has been legalized in some states and our federal government now takes no stand doesn’t set my hair on fire. But I’ve never understood why anyone would take anything that even temporarily alters their human abilities. On the other hand, I fully understand and sympathize with the widely held opinion that dealing drugs, including marijuana, to children justifies murder. Drug dealers are diseased rats and civilized society should exterminate them as such.
One difference between marijuana and alcohol is that alcohol gives you a warning, you wake up with a hangover, throwing up etc. your body is telling you hey you are heading for trouble where marijuana does not, it just tells you hey there is no problem.
*
Then maybe you decide to try the next level of drugs and then it escalates to you destruction. I do not believe the state or federal government should be party to this just for the money.
because there is no problem that even comes CLOSE to those of alcohol…which i consume and enjoy. i don’t smoke pot but have MANY friends that do and they suffer ONLY a diminished ambition. that’s their problem. drunks are a bigger problem
The knowledge that marijuana has been legalized in some states and our federal government now takes no stand doesn’t set my hair on fire. But I’ve never understood why anyone would take anything that even temporarily alters their human abilities. On the other hand, I fully understand and sympathize with the widely held opinion that dealing drugs, including marijuana, to children justifies murder. Drug dealers are diseased rats and civilized society should exterminate them as such.
because they choose to. you endorse murder and you are a sociopath to do so
People should take responsibility for their own actions.
The war on drugs has had worse results than the drug use itself.
When certain special interests claim that legalization “does not work” you have to ask them what are they measuring, what is the basis for the conclusion.
Because no doubt they will not include the cost in tax extortion and in lives lost, nor the costs of incarceration of non-violent drug offenders, or even the cost of incidental violence surrounding the drug trade.
They will also not include the “opportunity cost” in that the taxes extorted to support the law enforcement activities don’t enter the picture.
the war on drugs is over…DRUGS WON!
legalize them and DON”T tax them. our state capitols and DC have more than enough cash already