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It's not just that the marijuana industry is now structurally part of the economy, what about the overcrowded prisons full of people busted for having a small amount of marijuana. Is this what the GOP wants to spend tax money on? Supporting non criminals who were victims of Draconian laws? This is absurd. The idiotic futile Drug War is a waste of money and everyone except Sessions seems to know this.
"...According to the ACLU’s original analysis, marijuana arrests now account for over half of all drug arrests in the United States. Of the 8.2 million marijuana arrests between 2001 and 2010, 88% were for simply having marijuana...."
It is not so black and white. Here in Florida we do not put people in prison anymore for possession of less than 20 grams. People are ticketed instead.
It's not just that the marijuana industry is now structurally part of the economy, what about the overcrowded prisons full of people busted for having a small amount of marijuana. Is this what the GOP wants to spend tax money on? Supporting non criminals who were victims of Draconian laws? This is absurd. The idiotic futile Drug War is a waste of money and everyone except Sessions seems to know this.
"...According to the ACLU’s original analysis, marijuana arrests now account for over half of all drug arrests in the United States. Of the 8.2 million marijuana arrests between 2001 and 2010, 88% were for simply having marijuana...."
The next thing - and this is so so Republican - is for them to make the prison sentences longer, fill the prisons and then privatize them. Marco Rubio gets a ton of donations from private prison companies.
Jeff Sessions the Trump appointed Attorney General will announce today that he is rescinding a trio of memos from the Obama administration that adopted a policy of non-interference with marijuana-friendly state laws.
Well, this development should make my trip home to Colorado after the holidays much more interesting.
You better stock up while you can. I say this is a person who supports legal marijuana. We are probably going back to 50-state prohibition for another 20 years or so until the Moral Majority generation passes on.
It is in the countries interest to not have it's citizens get hooked on dope. He is just putting things back they way they were before the pot head Obama decided to change things.
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Hooked on dope? Ha. You mean all those red rural areas hooked on Meth, right?
You better stock up while you can. I say this is a person who supports legal marijuana. We are probably going back to 50-state prohibition for another 20 years or so until the Moral Majority generation passes on.
You better stock up while you can. I say this is a person who supports legal marijuana. We are probably going back to 50-state prohibition for another 20 years or so until the Moral Majority generation passes on.
I don't use marijuana, so this decision is mostly irrelevant to me, but it should make for some interesting developments at home in the next few months. I'll be watching with popcorn as the battle lines are drawn.
Imagine if the conservatives walk the walk like the talk the talk about government intervention. The government shouldn't be telling me what I can and can not do wrt putting marijuana in my body, right?
No we don't need democrats back in office or in control because they just bully the people and come down on people's freedoms in other regards.
What we need is democrats not controlled by the progressive left and republicans not controlled by the extreme right.
Took a chance on Trump because he seemed a outsider and a threat to both the left and right, in this regard for marijuana laws and his choice of Sessions it is a huge let down to me.
Can't wait until Sessions is no longer AG
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