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They wear white sheets instead.
President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) as attorney general of the United States, The Washington Post and other news outlets reported Friday. Sessions is a vocal opponent of marijuana legalization whose elevation to attorney general could deal a blow to state-level marijuana legalization efforts across the country.
At a Senate drug hearing in April of this year, Sessions said that we need grown-ups in charge in Washington to say marijuana is not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized, it ought not to be minimized, that it's in fact a very real danger. He voiced concern over statistics showing more drivers were testing positive for THC, the active component in marijuana, in certain states.
Sessions further argued that a lack of leadership from President Barack Obama had been one of the drivers of the trend toward marijuana legalization in recent years. I think one of [Obama's] great failures, it's obvious to me, is his lax treatment in comments on marijuana, Sessions said at the hearing. It reverses 20 years almost of hostility to drugs that began really when Nancy Reagan started 'Just Say No.'
He added that lawmakers and leaders in government needed to foster knowledge that this drug is dangerous, you cannot play with it, it is not funny, it's not something to laugh about .?.?. and to send that message with clarity that good people don't smoke marijuana.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump%e2%80%99s-pick-for-attorney-general-%e2%80%98good-people-don%e2%80%99t-smoke-marijuana%e2%80%99/ar-AAktrCb?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)napi21
(45,806 posts)received the OK from Obama that the Feds will not bother them if their State voted that they wanted MJ legalized and they're already have established businesses? What about all the new states that okayed it this past election? I haven't heard a word!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,010 posts)Montana, North Dakota and Arizona have legal medical marijuana.
http://www.governing.com/gov-data/state-marijuana-laws-map-medical-recreational.html
safeinOhio
(32,686 posts)religion.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Hair Furor cuts federal funding.
book_worm
(15,951 posts)pipoman
(16,038 posts)Perhaps that could have been the vote we needed to court 6 months ago to take this election...instead we put a few more dopers in jail and seized some more stuff......
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)and all the other pot friendly states starting next year.
freeplessinseattle
(3,508 posts)of the recreational pot shops, but boy is everyone thrilled about the huge amount of revenue they have brought in!
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Whatever.....