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GoldenRod
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Shawn
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White House may increase recreational marijuana enforcement
https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-may-boost-recreational-marijuana-enforcement-spokesman-001059919--sector.html
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The administration of President Donald Trump may ramp up enforcement of federal laws against recreational marijuana use, a White House spokesman said on Thursday, setting up potential conflicts in states where the drug is legal.
More than two dozen U.S. states have legalized marijuana for either medical or recreational purposes, and the administration of former President Barack Obama mostly looked the other way. But White House spokesman Sean Spicer said the Trump Administration may distinguish between medical and recreational use of the drug.
Spicer's comments came on the same day that a nationwide poll from Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, showed 71 percent of registered voters favored allowing states to decide whether marijuana should be legal.
"I do believe you'll see greater enforcement of it," Spicer said at a news conference. "Because again there's a big difference between the medical use ... that's very different than the recreational use, which is something the Department of Justice will be further looking into."
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What happened to State's Rights, and letting the State's determine what they want? I guess that's only for things that are convenient?
This also means a LOT more incarceration for menial crimes (which shouldn't be crimes at all, since marijuana should be classified the same as alcohol and tobacco...)
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PearlJamChick
No one sings like you anymore.
Member since 7/10 9264 total posts
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Re: White House may increase recreational marijuana enforcement
Seriously he's managed to piss off even the chillest of the chill.
So stupid.
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| Posted 2/24/17 4:25 PM |
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LIRascal
drama. daily.
Member since 3/11 7287 total posts
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Michelle
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White House may increase recreational marijuana enforcement
I'm just wondering how's federal law would affect the States rights to regulate their own laws. Why is everything and every subject being touched, moved and disturbed? Leave it alone!
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| Posted 2/24/17 4:46 PM |
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GoldenRod
10 years on LIF!
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Shawn
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Re: White House may increase recreational marijuana enforcement
Coincidence that they are trying to expand for-profit prisons at the same time they are trying to expand marijuana arrests?....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/doj-private-prisons-sessions_us_58af529ce4b0a8a9b780669a?
WASHINGTON ? Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday withdrew an Obama-era Justice Department memo that set a goal of reducing and ultimately ending the Justice Department’s use of private prisons.
In a one-page memo to the acting head of the Bureau of Prisons, Sessions wrote that the August 2016 memo by former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates “changed long-standing policy and practice, and impaired the Bureau’s ability to meet the future needs of the federal correctional system.”
A Justice Department spokesman said Sessions’ memo “directs the Bureau of Prisons to return to its previous approach to the use of private prisons,” which would “restore BOP’s flexibility to manage the federal prison inmate population based on capacity needs.”
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David C. Fathi, who directs the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project, said that giving for-profit companies control of prisons is “a recipe for abuse and neglect.” He said the Sessions memo was a further sign the U.S. “may be headed for a new federal prison boom” under the Trump administration.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the Sessions memo was an example of “how our corrupt political and campaign finance system” works.
“Private prison companies invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and today they got their reward: the Trump administration reversed the Obama administration’s directive to reduce the Justice Department’s use of private prisons,” Sanders said in a statement. “At a time when we already have more people behind bars than any other country, Trump just opened the floodgates for private prisons to make huge profits by building more prisons and keeping even more Americans in jail.”
Message edited 2/24/2017 4:53:30 PM.
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| Posted 2/24/17 4:52 PM |
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Re: White House may increase recreational marijuana enforcement
Posted by LIRascal
I'm just wondering how's federal law would affect the States rights to regulate their own laws. Why is everything and every subject being touched, moved and disturbed? Leave it alone!
State's rights are going out the window along with all of our civil liberties. They want to force states with no conceal carry to allow people from other states to come in like the wild west.
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| Posted 2/24/17 8:20 PM |
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bookworm
Two Little Rosebuds
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Re: White House may increase recreational marijuana enforcement
More republican hypocrisy 
When it comes to abortion and transgender protections, the administration is touting states rights. When it comes to marijuana laws, they want top-down federal enforcement.
Ultimately, they manipulate the laws and the rhetoric in whatever way that enables them to function as the morality police while they celebrate any deregulation of industry that serves the interests of their corporate donors.
Who TF votes for these people?
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| Posted 2/26/17 7:46 AM |
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