Article from the Washington Post by Seung Min Kim.
President Trump has promised a top Senate Republican that he will support congressional efforts to protect states that have legalized marijuana — defusing a months-long standoff between Sen. Cory Gardner and the administration over Justice Department nominees.
In January, the Colorado Republican said he would block all DOJ nominations after Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo that heightened the prospect of a federal marijuana crackdown in states that had legalized the substance. Gardner’s home state made recreational marijuana legal in 2014.
In a phone call late Wednesday, Trump told Gardner that despite the DOJ memo, the marijuana industry in Colorado will not be targeted, the senator said in a statement Friday. Satisfied, the first-term senator is now backing down from his nominee blockade.
“Since the campaign, President Trump has consistently supported states’ rights to decide for themselves how best to approach marijuana,” Gardner said Friday. “Late Wednesday, I received a commitment from the President that the Department of Justice’s rescission of the Cole memo will not impact Colorado’s legal marijuana industry.”
Read the entire article at The Washington Post.
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GOOD! Herbal FREEDOM!!
You are free to do anything you want in this country. I will not complain. But you shouldn’t complain when I have the freedom to hire someone else instead of you. That’s ALSO my freedom
Many don’t understand this is a protection of state rights. The federal government does not have the right to control everything within a state and President Trump is right to protect the states from federal over reach.
The states FORMED the federal government to do THEIR bidding, not the other way around.
Right name, wrong avatar.
Marijuana is a 1st Amendment issue and RIGHT. Does an American citizen have a right to believe in GOD? the GOD of the Bible? as the CREATOR of all things created as is claimed in the Bible? to follow the instructions of the GOD of the Bible? to accept marijuana as a seed-bearing plant to be used as food? to recognize GOD’s will and purpose for the plant beyond food as discovered from the Bible?