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Trump Administration’s Secret War On Weed

aridbud

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Received this from Drug Policy Alliance, a creditable source. Take it however you want....sounds to me, DJT aligning similar to Nixon's
tactics.

Trump’s Secret Plot Against Marijuana
According to a recent report [Buzzfeed: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dominicholden/trump-secret-committee-anti-marijuana], the Trump administration has tasked a secret multi-agency team to find ways to undermine public support for marijuana legalization.

The team, known as the Marijuana Policy Coordination Committee, includes 14 federal agencies, as well as the Drug Enforcement Administration. They have been asked to submit only "data demonstrating the most significant negative trends" about marijuana and the "threats" it poses to the public.

“The real question is why they’re talking about cherry picking information only to focus on evidence that would point to [the] negative effects of legalization when, in fact, most of the evidence shows that legalization is working,” noted DPA Executive Director Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno in a recent MSNBC interview.
 

Badfishy1

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fear= clicks= revenue
Remember when Ebola was going to kill us all? Sadly, NO media truly reports news. It’s all based on right/ left divide and/or click here so our sponsors give us more money.
 

Lost in a SOG

GrassSnakeGenetics
Who's surprised?

The Imperialist fascist warmongering small handed little bitch.. Fuck him and his kind and all their antecedents and fat useless children. Murderous genocidal sociopaths.

Haven't done a hard days work in their fucking lives and they're the elites, the fittest, in this capitalist pyramid scheme that guess what they designed.. It's a fucking bad repetitive joke on the overworked slaves that they keep running so fast on the treadmill we don't all rise up like a giant fist and smoosh the fuckers like the bloated mosquitoes they are..

Its a money based political system where only the bastards with the most blood money behind them win essentially and that doesn't get "good" people in to power and besides this isn't Trump doing this shit its whoever writes his daily script.. He's a professional actor like Reagan 2 but with even less substance..

Democracy is a lie like the illusion of choice in capitalism.
 

pipeline

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Buzzfeed is fake news. Trump wants states rights. He's talked about it. Can't compare him with Nixon. Trump loves the Lord! :smoke:
 

packerfan79

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Trump will use national Legaization to get re-elected. It's a timing issue, as we get closer to the presidential election it will come to the forefront. If NORML made an attempt to reach out, we could get the ball rolling now. Unfortunately NORML is really just a corporate sponsor of the Democratic party, NORML only exists if people are getting locked up for weed. They really are no different than corporate prison industry. They are on opposing sides but both make millions from the issue.

The only hindrance is the troll Sessions. If Trump fires Sessions the MSM will scream collusion. In reality Sessions is just a figure head. He's recused himself from anything that actually matters. Sessions is looking out for himself and his future employment opportunities. Sessions has said Congress can legalize.
 

aridbud

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Could be true. Unraveling any progressive progress is an agenda, however op-ed and other side lines are currently active. Imagine it would become clearer after mid term elections. Wait and watch. I can see this administration trying to angle the cannabis culture in America with conservatives in office, reverting backwards...
 

Sign

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How do you honestly not see the establishment running both sides of the kosher sandwich aridbud? Trump wasn't who we were supposed to get, so the 1% who run virtually all media and academia in every white country are attacking every single thing he does.

At every turn it's another coincidence. Start connecting the dots man. The us has been a puppet state for quite some time.

If you're the typical degenerate nihilistic lefty perhaps you want to see it all come crumbling down. Some of us actually have children and want to prevent them from growing up in a Bolshevik Weimar holodomor...
 

packerfan79

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Could be true. Unraveling any progressive progress is an agenda, however op-ed and other side lines are currently active. Imagine it would become clearer after mid term elections. Wait and watch. I can see this administration trying to angle the cannabis culture in America with conservatives in office, reverting backwards...

It's not really a matter of progressive, Democrats, vs. Conservatives. Really it rest with the Libertarian minded folks. The right is more liberty oriented than it has ever been. Most conservatives have moved to the libertarian side. Only the hardcore Christian folks truly want weed illegal, they can be convinced once they see it help someone they love. Some will never bend on it, but very few. Most of those people are dieing off. The biggest impediment is when people who support Weed, also support crazy shit like abolishing private property, and disbanding ICE.

If people want to be taken seriously then they can't support insanity. Weed could be the issue that takes power away from the 2 parties that have kept it illegal.
 

Badfishy1

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It's not really a matter of progressive, Democrats, vs. Conservatives. Really it rest with the Libertarian minded folks. The right is more liberty oriented than it has ever been. Most conservatives have moved to the libertarian side. Only the hardcore Christian folks truly want weed illegal, they can be convinced once they see it help someone they love. Some will never bend on it, but very few. Most of those people are dieing off. The biggest impediment is when people who support Weed, also support crazy shit like abolishing private property, and disbanding ICE.

If people want to be taken seriously then they can't support insanity. Weed could be the issue that takes power away from the 2 parties that have kept it illegal.


Right/Left Dem/Rep Black/white are nothing more than a technique used to divide the common people today. The real issue is US/ Them. While everybody sits around shitting on each other on social media, EVERYBODY is getting fucked in the ass by an elephant and nobody fucking cares. Instead we are too busy focusing on the differences between US.
 

packerfan79

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Right/Left Dem/Rep Black/white are nothing more than a technique used to divide the common people today. The real issue is US/ Them. While everybody sits around shitting on each other on social media, EVERYBODY is getting fucked in the ass by an elephant and nobody fucking cares. Instead we are too busy focusing on the differences between US.

Yup, you nailed it. Unfortunately the system is bigger than the individual. I would love to see an election where not 1 single solitary person votes. How do you declare a winner with zero votes. This world throw the political world on it's ear.
 

Gry

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Inside The Trump Administration’s Secret War On Weed

The Marijuana Policy Coordination Committee wants to counteract positive marijuana messages and identify problems with state legalization initiatives, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News.
WASHINGTON — The White House has secretly amassed a committee of federal agencies from across the government to combat public support for marijuana and cast state legalization measures in a negative light, while attempting to portray the drug as a national threat, according to interviews with agency staff and documents obtained by BuzzFeed News.
The Marijuana Policy Coordination Committee, as it’s named in White House memos and emails, instructed 14 federal agencies and the Drug Enforcement Administration this month to submit “data demonstrating the most significant negative trends” about marijuana and the “threats” it poses to the country.
In an ironic twist, the committee complained in one memo that the narrative around marijuana is unfairly biased in favor of the drug. But rather than seek objective information, the committee’s records show it is asking officials only to portray marijuana in a negative light, regardless of what the data show.
“The prevailing marijuana narrative in the U.S. is partial, one-sided, and inaccurate,” says a summary of a July 27 meeting of the White House and nine departments. In a follow-up memo, which provided guidance for responses from federal agencies, White House officials told department officials, “Departments should provide … the most significant data demonstrating negative trends, with a statement describing the implications of such trends.”
As several states have approved laws allowing adults to use and purchase cannabis, critics have contended lax attitudes will promote drug abuse, particularly among youth, and they have pressed for a federal crackdown. The White House at one point said more pot enforcement would be forthcoming, though President Donald Trump has never said he was onboard with that agenda and he announced in June that he "really" supports new bipartisan legislation in Congress that would let state marijuana legalization thrive.
However, the committee’s hardline agenda and deep bench suggest an extraordinarily far-reaching effort to reverse public attitudes and scrutinize those states. Its reports are to be used in a briefing for Trump “on marijuana threats.”“Staff believe that if the administration is to turn the tide on increasing marijuana use there is an urgent need to message the facts about the negative impacts of marijuana use, production, and trafficking on national health, safety, and security,” says the meeting summary.he White House declined to discuss the committee's process, but indicated it was part of an effort to remain consistent with the president's agenda.“The Trump Administration’s policy coordination process is an internal, deliberative process to craft the President’s policies on a number of important issues facing the American people, and ensure consistency with the President’s agenda," Lindsay Walters, Deputy White House Press Secretary, told BuzzFeed News.
None of the documents indicate that officials are seeking data that show marijuana consumption or legalization laws, which have been approved in eight states, serve any public benefit or do a better job of reducing drug abuse.
Coordinated by White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, the committee met on July 27 with many of the largest agencies in the federal government, including the departments of Justice, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and State. An unclassified summary of the meeting, obtained by BuzzFeed News, says the memo is “predecisional and requires a close hold.” And it says the notes were not to be distributed externally.
The White House followed up the next week by sending agencies and other departments — including the departments of Defense, Education, Transportation and Veterans Affairs, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency — instructions to submit two-page, bulleted fact sheets that identify marijuana threats and issues with the initiatives by Aug. 10.
While spokespeople at those agencies declined to comment on the committee itself, asked if the Education Department had submitted its response to the White House, Liz Hill, a spokesperson for the agency, told BuzzFeed News this week, “I’m told we did turn it in on time to the WH.”
A State Department spokesperson told BuzzFeed News, “The State Department regularly coordinates with ONDCP on a wide range of drug control issues. For specific questions about the Marijuana Policy Coordination Committee, we refer you to ONDCP.”
Neither the ONDCP officials or White House press office responded to requests from BuzzFeed News to comment on the committee.
Departments were told to “identify marijuana threats; issues created by state marijuana initiatives; and consequences of use, production, and trafficking on national health, safety, and securityThe agencies should also provide an example of a “story, relating an incident or picture, that illustrates one or more the key areas of concern related to use, production, and trafficking of marijuana,” the White House guidance says. The agencies were asked to describe how the drug poses threats to their department and the consequences of marijuana “on national health and security".

“We are asking each agency to provide information on marijuana,” White House ONDCP staffer Hayley C. Conklin wrote in an email to department leaders on Aug. 1. She cited the guidance document, saying, “it will assist you in providing the appropriate information.”
Contacted by BuzzFeed News about the committee, Conklin told BuzzFeed News, “Thank you so much for calling, but I cannot comment,” then hung up the phone.
A number of agencies also declined to comment — including the departments of Labor, Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and Transportation.
None of the 14 agencies BuzzFeed News contacted for this story, the DEA, or the White House denied the marijuana committee’s existence.
John Hudak, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, blasted the committee’s slanted approach to the facts and the “alienating effort on behalf of the president. ”
“This is a terrible political move by the administration,” he told BuzzFeed, saying that the committee’s agenda betrays Trump’s pledges to protect states from federal intervention — a position with overwhelming public support.
Hudak added it would be “policy malpractice” to only collect one-sided data. “The coordination of propaganda around an issue that the president ostensibly supported is fairly unprecedented.”
“This is a president who is not serious about states rights and regulatory reform in areas like drug policy, and is not serious about telling the truth to the American people or members of Congress from his own party," Hudak said, pointing to Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner, a Republican, who authored legislation that would protect states rights on marijuana and has praised Trump on the issue.
Gardner’s office did not reply to requests to comment on the committee.
Colorado Rep. Jared Polis, a Democrat who is also running for governor this year, slammed the committee in a statement Wednesday. ”Pres. Trump is flailing on marijuana policy, sometimes saying the states should decide, while also allowing the Attorney General and other prohibition supporters in his purview to run amuck. If the White House is actually spreading misinformation about marijuana to undercut states’ rights, it’s appalling but not out of the ordinary for President Trump and his gang of prohibition supporters,” Polis said.
Although the White House said last year that it expected “greater enforcement” of marijuana in states where it’s legal, Trump has since suggested he'd support Gardner's legislation to allow states to legalize marijuana untouched by the Justice Department. The move seemed to jab at Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has relentlessly threatened a pot crackdown. As leader of the Justice Department, Sessions has recited 1980s-style rhetoric about saying no to marijuana.
But Americans have diverged from the federal government’s hardline stance on pot prohibition — with eight states having now legalized its adult recreational use and authorizing systems to sell it like alcohol. A Quinnipiac University poll in April found that 63% of Americans support legalization.
While marijuana consumption rose in the 15 years before Colorado and Washington became the first states to start allowing adults to buy marijuana in 2013, according to JAMA Psychiatry, federal data indicate marijuana abuse disorder has dropped nationally since then.
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herbgreen

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Sessions has to be behind this

Hes crazy

Too little to late in the first place

Watch it Legalize in 2018

List of 2018 United States cannabis reform proposals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2018_United_States_cannabis_reform_proposals

Trump wont turn on his fat cat pals who are in the Money business when it come to Cannabis Colorado being #1 on his list

We can thank Gardener...I mean Gardner for that!

Trump spoke out very soundly on Medical being a thing we want...And for that I'm Damn Grateful

Whatever you think of Trump he didnt hesitate when he answered that and didnt back off it either

Sessions is another story....Hes Crazy
 

packerfan79

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So Congressman Matt Gatez is bringing a bill to congress today that would expand the federal production of cannabis for studies. It has it's flaws but it's progress. By the way he also think's it doesn't go far enough, but to get enough people on board it has to appeal to the whole of Congress. Gatez said the dude between Trump and Sessions is the biggest threat to progress. I for 1 would run sessions Troll ass out of town.
 

aridbud

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u can bet sessions is in on it.

Gry...agreed!

Other murmurs plan to end an Obama-era policy that paved the way for legalized marijuana in states across the country....too many irons in the fire at the moment, but it will quietly be amassed.

Smoke em and grow em while you got em! Or it's going underground again....

Somehow I cannot believe cannabis will be part of DJT's re-election goal. Might be wrong.
 

aridbud

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^^^Hog wash. To each their own. He'll target cannabis after midterms. Where's the health plan, reduction of opioids, denouncing climate change...yada, yada.\

You can bet he didn't write that....2 syllable wonder.
 
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