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Sure... If Obama, Pelosi, and Reid had decriminalized marijuana at the federal level when they had the Presidency, House, and Senate in 2009, this wouldn't even be a current event. It would be a state issue, not a federal offense.
There are actually two issues. The legislature could have made marijuana legal or left it to the states. But it is doubtful that they ever had the votes to do so. All democrats do not agree and it some places it is a third rail issue. You get killed by a special interest group if you support it.
The second is the drug schedule which I agree with IC made no sense. Obama appears to support state regulated marijuana sales yet maintained the schedule 1 status of the drug. That really makes no sense.
There are actually two issues. The legislature could have made marijuana legal or left it to the states. But it is doubtful that they ever had the votes to do so. All democrats do not agree and it some places it is a third rail issue. You get killed by a special interest group if you support it.
The second is the drug schedule which I agree with IC made no sense. Obama appears to support state regulated marijuana sales yet maintained the schedule 1 status of the drug. That really makes no sense.
I would also observe that it is very unlikely Sessions will get support to undo the protection of medical marijuana. Too popular with the populace for the Republicans to vote for it. He can however go after the recreational sales. And that should kick over a real hornets nest if he does. Might actually drive pot legalization if he does it.
Might also lead to some interesting trials. Can you get a jury in Colorado to convict on a federal charge of running a state legal pot shop? I would not bet on it.
If it's a federal charge the feds can change the venue to another state.
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.
Great news from my perspective.
Of course the dopers will be upset, but much of what Trump is doing to unravel the rubbish Obama did is helping America.
However, the recent trend toward legalization is clearly coming to an end.
Not hardly. But I would like your opinion on something.
Let's say sessions gets the green light, and the feds shut down a large medical dispensary, carting off all the contents in large trucks. With 90% of the population being for legal medical pot, what would happen next?
How in the world is Obama to blame for what is being done when he is no longer in office? It was wrong to keep illegal at a federal level when he was in office, yes. But he's not. This is on Sessions now. And is still completely wrong.
You just don't get it. It's not wrong, what the states did was what is actually wrong since it is illegal at the fed level. Obama is being blamed because this would NOT be an issue if he did what really needed to be done, but nope, he did not.
Not hardly. But I would like your opinion on something.
Let's say sessions get the green light, and the feds shut down a large medical dispensary, carting off all the contents in large trucks. With 90% of the population being for legal medical pot, what would happen next?
Again genius, it is ILLEGAL for a state to make something legal that is NOT legal at the fed level. Do you think it's legal for a state to make owning a fully automatic machine gun legal to carry with you? Do you think if they did the feds would have the power to stop it?
Do you know what "prosecutorial discretion" means?
Do you think you can locate sufficient integrity for you to perhaps comment on what Sessions is doing and not try to redirect to the fact that it's possible for him to do it?
Obama, Pelosi, and Reid had the Presidency, House, and Senate in 2009. They crammed the Obamacare disaster down our throats. Why didn't they decriminalize marijuana at the federal level?
I already told you, re-read the post. Now we are off onto Obamacare, ok, how come the Repubs whined like little girls about it for 6 Years and when given the opportunity do not have a plan on how to replace it, that sham they presented is worse than Obama care and will probably never see the desk of the President. And speaking of His promise, where is His Plan to replace Obamacare that everyone is just gonna Love, seems to beyond his capabilities also, eh. Yeup, easy to whine about the last guys in power, not so easy to actual fulfill the promises and rhetoric spewed out there for 8 years. America is Watching, don't screw it up.
How in the world is Obama to blame for what is being done when he is no longer in office?
Because no blame can attach to God-Emperor Trump. Duh.
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