Now the White House is going after people who smoke weed?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

WTF?

Coming up on CNN

Wants the federal government to take a more aggressive role.

[KeepItReal]

1. And reinstating use of private prisons for Federal dollars

But that's just a coincidence, right?

[Else You Are Mad]

2. Explain please... nt.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. Coming up on CNN. I can't keep up with all this news.

[KeepItReal]

4. Spicer says Sessions will be going after states' legalized Recreational Marijuana

Eom

[Equinox Moon]

5. Oh... that is not good!

I don't have access to cable stations, so thanks for reporting about it.

[trof]

7. No surprise.

Sessions has said "Bad people smoke marijuana".
That's a quote.

[angrychair]

14. I thought it was a "State's rights" issue??

So it's only a state's rights issue if you trying to oppress or hurt people but it's a federal issue when they want to control your personal decisions? Got it.
So I can drink myself into oblivion but I cannot smoke a little weed?

State's will not go back on this and the USSC will not side with the government.
You cannot keep insisting things are "state's rights" issues but change course as it suits you.
Law doesn't work that way.

[smirkymonkey]

15. Because only Liberals smoke weed!

Well, that's what they think anyway.

[angrychair]

18. Billions of dollars

In tax revenue says different.

[NightWatcher]

6. I have to consume cannabis.

I'm waiting on Florida to determine the means and methods of distribution and licensing to those who require it after having passed a ballot amendment last November.

I'd like to eventually NOT be a criminal for treating my conditions.

So states have rights to monitor who pees where but not the right to have its citizens vote to overturn ridiculous prohibitions on harmless substances?

It's bullshit

[KeepItReal]

12. Trump and Co are fine with medical marijuana legalized, just not recreational

Unless Sessions goes rogue and goes after state-legal medicinal marijuana also....

[NightWatcher]

16. Sure they are. It's easier for them to START prohibition if they target "recreational"

I hate that term because it does sound like people just goofing around getting stoned all day long.

I prefer "adult use" legalization.

[angrychair]

8. Bring it

As the saying goes "see you in court"

[regnaD kciN]

10. Unfortunately...

...the law is on their side.

[angrychair]

17. No, I don't believe that

Almost a clear majority of states have either legalized or medical marijuana or both. A significant majority have no marijuana laws to speak of or have chosen to not enforce them at all.

This is a state's rights issue. States are not going to give up billions in revenue.
This issue will disappear in a puff of smoke.

[regnaD kciN]

9. Why is this such a surprise...?

Sessions, from long before he became AG, has made no bones about how the federal government needed to "be the grown-up" and ban states from legalizing not only recreational but medical marijuana use. He has said, and this is an exact quote, that the government needed "to return us to the time where Nancy Reagan told America 'just say no'." So, people are shocked that, once given the power, he plans to use it?

[irisblue]

11. well there goes the libertarian contingent

BTW fuck Ron & Rand Paul

[MFM008]

13. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

for STATES RIGHTS
(lying sacks of shit). when it comes to Transgender rights but
NOT when it comes to pot.

[GoCubsGo]

19. Gotta fill up their private prisons somehow.

[Luciferous]

20. Exactly. They only care about the money they can make.