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Apparently, Trump feels that good people DO use marijuana.
President Donald Trump will lift his administration’s plans for a possible crackdown on states that have legalized marijuana after talks with a Colorado senator, the White House said on Friday, an action that undercuts U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Senator Cory Gardner, Trump’s fellow Republican whose state has some of the most permissive marijuana laws in the country, had blocked Senate confirmation of Justice Department nominations to force the change.
Sessions on Jan. 4 rescinded a policy begun under Democratic former President Barack Obama that had eased enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that legalized it. In doing so, Sessions, who has taken a hard line against marijuana, gave federal prosecutors wide latitude to pursue criminal charges.
Gardner said on Friday he received a commitment from Trump that the rescission “will not impact Colorado’s legal marijuana industry.” Gardner said Trump assured him he would support legislation “to fix this states’ rights issue once and for all.”
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders confirmed the president’s action.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/trump-lift-legal-threat-states-permit-marijuana-use/
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My weed will still be legal then.
So, problems all solved. What could posssibly go wrong with Trump, a man of integrity and principles, a man so renowned for keeping his word at all costs?
We’ll be lucky if Sessions doesn’t start rounding up guys who look like they might be related to the picture of the guy on Zig-Zag packs. The guy’s got a beard. Probably a Muslim. Definitely French. Based on those criteria, arresting pot smokers is therefore the surest method of keeping America safe from the Terrorists.
