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[Tapxe]

https://www.attn.com/stories/17647/jeff-sessions-wants-eliminate-marijuana-protection

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asked Congress to let a policy expire that protects states that have legalized marijuana from federal interference, when it comes up for renewal later this year. In a letter sent to congressional leaders last month—which was obtained by MassRoots—Sessions reaffirmed the Justice Department's "opposition" to the protective measure.

No wonder my pot stocks are in freefall.

 

[superchuck500]

https://www.attn.com/stories/17647/jeff-sessions-wants-eliminate-marijuana-protection



No wonder my pot stocks are in freefall.

Seriously. What is Jeff Sessions's problem? Someone needs to kick him in the balls.

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."

In his letter, first obtained by Tom Angell of Massroots.com and verified independently by The Washington Post, Sessions argued that the amendment would "inhibit [the Justice Department's] authority to enforce the Controlled Substances Act." He continues:

"I believe it would be unwise for Congress to restrict the discretion of the Department to fund particular prosecutions, particularly in the midst of an historic drug epidemic and potentially long-term uptick in violent crime. The Department must be in a position to use all laws available to combat the transnational drug organizations and dangerous drug traffickers who threaten American lives."

Sessions's citing of a "historic drug epidemic" to justify a crackdown on medical marijuana is at odds with what researchers know about current drug use and abuse in the United States. The epidemic Sessions refers to involves deadly opiate drugs, not marijuana. A growing body of research (acknowledged by the National Institute on Drug Abuse) has shown that opiate deaths and overdoses actually decrease in states with medical marijuana laws on the books.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-providers/?tid=pm_pop&utm_term=.426ebdc67f58

 

[Tapxe]

Seriously. What is Jeff Sessions's problem?

Old racist ideas dies slowly.

 

[superchuck500]

Old racist ideas dies slowly.

I think he is clearly being manipulated by the pharma lobby. They know he has an antiquated "Reefer Madness" view and so they're happy to use that in their fight against medical marijuana. It's sickening.

I know that pharmacists usually take a pharm version of the Hippocratic Oath when they graduate from their pharm school. I would really love to see legislation that requires every corporate officer and member of the board of director of any pharmaceutical manufacturer to take the pharmaceutical version of the Hippocratic Oath on an annual basis.

 

[Tapxe]

I think he is clearly being manipulated by the pharma lobby. They know he has an antiquated "Reefer Madness" view and so they're happy to use that in their fight against medical marijuana. It's sickening.

I know that pharmacists usually take a pharm version of the Hippocratic Oath when they graduate from their pharm school. I would really love to see legislation that requires every corporate officer and member of the board of director of any pharmaceutical manufacturer to take the pharmaceutical version of the Hippocratic Oath on an annual basis.

You really think those soulless greedy moneygrubbers give a flying flip about an oath?

 

[superchuck500]

You really think those soulless greedy moneygrubbers give a flying flip about an oath?

I think that oaths can be meaningful to individuals, yes. Not every one. But some.

 

[Tapxe]

I think that oaths can be meaningful to individuals, yes. Not every one. But some.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/big-pharmas-dirtiest-dealer-insys

They know what they are doing. They just don't care about life. They care about money is all. An oath would be useless to someone that values money over life.

IMHO...

 

[Tapxe]

https://theintercept.com/2017/06/18...he-stunning-secret-story-of-the-war-on-drugs/

The good news for Grassley, and for everyone else, is that starting Sunday night and running through Wednesday the History Channel is showing a new four-part series called “America’s War on Drugs.” Not only is it an important contribution to recent American history, it’s also the first time U.S. television has ever told the core truth about one of the most important issues of the past 50 years.

That core truth is: The war on drugs has always been a pointless sham. For decades the federal government has engaged in a shifting series of alliances of convenience with some of the world’s largest drug cartels. So while the U.S. incarceration rate has quintupled since President Richard Nixon first declared the war on drugs in 1971, top narcotics dealers have simultaneously enjoyed protection at the highest levels of power in America.

 

[Suavecito8]

Seriously. What is Jeff Sessions's problem? Someone needs to kick him in the balls.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-providers/?tid=pm_pop&utm_term=.426ebdc67f58

 

[Goatman Saint]

https://theintercept.com/2017/06/18...he-stunning-secret-story-of-the-war-on-drugs/

Why am I not surprised at this? It makes sense that someone has paid off someone in the government. Maybe add another patch to the corporate sponsors jackets they should be mandated to wear.

On the other hand, after spending a lot of time in Oregon this last year as my daughter is at OSU (sorry about the *** kicking LSU. Go Beavers!) I am still amazed at how legal weed is such a non issue. Although it was halarious to see my daughter's older Asian neighbor smoking his joint while smoking ribs yesterday. Never thought I'd see that.

 

[Tapxe]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...els-violent-crime-on-americas-streets/530895/

During President Ronald Reagan’s first inaugural address, he declared that “in this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”

The populist right would do well to apply that formulation to the street violence associated with the drug trade. The War on Drugs is a decades-old federal effort that has failed as consistently and completely as any government initiative in American history. A generation has passed since National Review declared it irrevocably lost. Yet Attorney General Jeff Sessions, America’s highest-ranking law enforcement official, doesn’t even grasp the most obvious tradeoff that prohibitions are making.

“Drug trafficking is an inherently violent business,” he declared in a recent Washington Post op-ed. “If you want to collect a drug debt, you can’t, and don’t, file a lawsuit in court. You collect it by the barrel of a gun.” Yet marijuana is a drug, and in California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, and beyond, dispensaries operating openly in neighborhoods including mine traffic in pot while deploying lawyers, not gun barrels. Other drug trafficking is violent for the same reason liquor trafficking was violent during Prohibition: because of the inherent violence of black markets, not anything inherent to drugs. The honest, informed prohibitionist acknowledges that his preferred policy is inseparable from ineradicable black markets in narcotics, which have fueled street violence throughout the War on Drugs.

 

[superchuck500]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...els-violent-crime-on-americas-streets/530895/

Saw that - nice column. Conor Friederdorf is good, usually approaches issues from the right but arrives at very sensible conclusions.

 

[Goatman Saint]

Nice column, and I'm glad to see some sense coming to people. I'm in no way in favor of hard drug legalization, but have seen the results of legalizing pot and honestly I can see no reason not to. It's a great boost to tax base, crime has dropped in legal areas, now this article says that opioid use has gone down, really what is the issue for not rather than old outdated mindsets?


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[coldseat]

Nice column, and I'm glad to see some sense coming to people. I'm in no way in favor of hard drug legalization, but have seen the results of legalizing pot and honestly I can see no reason not to. It's a great boost to tax base, crime has dropped in legal areas, now this article says that opioid use has gone down, really what is the issue for not rather than old outdated mindsets?


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Old outdated mindset and Prison/law enforcement are the only arguments against legalization. If you decriminalize possession, then it's less money and funding for the DEA and other law enforcement because it will mean they would have to scale down. So tax payers save but those sectors are hurt. Likewise, decriminalization means less prisoners and less funding and money for both private and public prisons system as there will be less inmates.

When policy doesn't make any since, but we still abide it, follow the money.

 

[Tapxe]

/sigh

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qv49a3/is-weed-really-being-laced-with-fentanyl

"We have seen fentanyl mixed with cocaine," said coroner Lakshmi Sammarco. "We have also seen fentanyl mixed with marijuana."

Rumors about laced pot tend to crop up whenever a new drug gains a following. Most of us have heard about dusted drugs or wet weed—though the likelihood of getting tricked into smoking PCP a la Ethan Hawke in Training Day has probably always been slimmer than urban legends might have you believe. As for the allegedly fentanyl-laced cocaine the coroner mentioned, earlier this month, the NYC Health Department did in fact put out a warning about fentanyl-tinged coke in America's largest city; critics countered that there was no way to tell if victims with the two drugs in their systems didn't just consume them separately.

Lloyd Johnston, who runs the US government's massive youth drug survey out of the University of Michigan, told me that while laced weed does have a well-documented history, the chances of finding bud infused with fentanyl seems extremely remote.

And Kirk Maxey, who works with law enforcement agencies like the DEA to test suspected synthetic opioids, said that not only would such a mixture be rare—it might not even be scientifically possible.

Lets ignore the obvious that if weed was legal then the chances a regulated and easily traced product would be laced becomes extremely remote, and make up stuff to incite panic in the droves of naive.