Trump administration hints at ‘greater enforcement’ of marijuana laws

Wendull C. said:

I agree. It wasn't only conservatives though, just take a look at the Dixiecrats who coincidentally resided in the same states as those now deemed conservative. Democrats are no friend if pot either.

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Nixon's southern strategy changed that in the 60's & Reagan clinched it. Dixiecrats became Dixiecans a long time ago.

This has nothing to do with why the framers placed an electoral college in our presidential elections. States with larger populations are appointed more seats in the House of Representatives as a way to give them more power in our government.

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Yeh, I figure their thinking went along these lines-

http://images.dailykos.com/images/334651/story_image/TMW2016-12-07color.png?1480790207

All this bitching about the electoral college is just sour grapes. When Obama won handily both terms, no one on your side complained about the electoral college.

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Of course nobody complains when the electoral college reflects the popular vote. That's just normal.

toxic hippie said:

the muslim travel ban was stopped by the federal courts not congress. nothing he has done was stopped by congress.

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I see. They were allowed by Congress but some states attorney generals brought the matter to court.
The fact is that if a law is written by legislation it has much more chance of remaining a law than an executive order has.
Getting the individual states to bring legislation to Congress and having it pass the Senate and house of Representatives to create a federal law that doesn't violate constitutional law is the best method to bring about actual legalization.

The law will still go into effect if done in that manner and if the president then chooses to go against the law then Congress can still pass it without the president signing (unlikely to happen)

I believe we should not vote for presidents based on their views about cannabis, there are too many other topics that will cause big problems for our country. And the fact is that no president is going to create an executive order to legalize weed.

Unless we can somehow get Macho Comacho in the White House.

I'd vote for Macho Comacho, he looks like he means bizzness....lol

Keep on growing

Genghis Kush said:

Im not a democrat or republican. Both parties are too conservative for me.

I think it would be more fair and democratic if power was shared instead of the winner take all approach that we have in the US.
It leaves half the country feeling unrepresented no matter who wins.

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I dont know if that would be a better approach. Most of, if not all of, Latin America is that way, and they still have issues.

Ogtg2213 said:

In what world do you live in, that a statement is calling people names???? Not to mention it was the truth

You want my opinion on the topic, I'll spell it out for you. Trumps administration isn't trump, trump won't crack down on pot. And if your gonna talk about peoples IQ like you lefties love to do,then maybe proof read you're posts so the grammar and punctuation makes sense and you form proper sentences.

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Well you failed at your "job" of being the grammar police. You, of all people, scolding others on punctuation and sentence structure.
The word you vainly tried to spell was "your", "you're" is the contraction of "you are".
You still did not reply to the topic of this thread at any point in any of your posts.
Saying "the Trump Administration isn't Trump" will hopefully be the most senseless nonsense any of us will have to read for the rest of our lives.

Jhhnn said:

The fact remains that Trump does not have a majority of people who voted for him.

We've had 58 presidential elections & the electoral college failed to reflect the popular vote only 4 times, none of them in the 20th century. That makes this election & the others anomalous.

It's certainly not a mandate for a radical agenda but that's what we'll get.

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No he didn't win the popular vote, neither did the other four candidates who won the electoral college (it is 5 not 4). But they were all still called Mr. President. We are a representative Republic. Not a 50% + 1% winner take all democracy.

Ogtg2213 said:

In what world do you live in, that a statement is calling people names???? Not to mention it was the truth

You want my opinion on the topic, I'll spell it out for you. Trumps administration isn't trump, trump won't crack down on pot. And if your gonna talk about peoples IQ like you lefties love to do,then maybe proof read you're posts so the grammar and punctuation makes sense and you form proper sentences.

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Let me put my insane filters on first and get this straight...

The Trump administration....hand picked and endorsed by Trump.....is not Trump?

You're right, they are not physically the embodiment of Donald Chump. But they represent his will, desire and intent and are charged to fulfill his directives and accomplish his goals.

Just wait another few months, if you're finding it difficult to defend electing this ahole now....let's just see how much rope he needs to hang himself. You're gonna have to find a spider hole like Saddam Hussein to hide in to avoid all the venom and vinegar he's going to incite.

BTW: Did I tell you I'm SOOOOOOOOO glad that you Trump voters saved us from a fate worse than death: those friggin Satanic Hillary emails that were raping kids and burning down nursing homes just had to be stopped before they ruined the world. LOCK HER UP!!!
That and Benghazi.....I mean comeon....why did they let Hillary attack our consulate in Libya? They should have taken her out using snipers. She's more dangerous than John Rambo.....

Posacenere said:

bullshit

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You got turrets too? What's up brother?

Ok guys, I was just saying I hope he does good. Sorry you couldn't handle someone's opinion.

Trumps administration may be hand picked but he does flip flop on issues and when he sees the backlash he's not gonna enforce a crack down on pot.

Again I didn't vote for trump so what your saying doesn't apply to me and it really doesn't matter anyways.

I'm never the grammar police , and I never insult people's intelligence espically not on spelling or punctuation.but when you insult people's IQ and you can't make full sentences it was just an easy opening, again I apologise

Seriously guys I shouldn't have commented on such a far left site, I won't comment again. Sorry to each and every one of yas, I wish your grows to be heavy and smoke to be delicious , have a great day

Sessions is an old school adherent to Reefer Madness propaganda. The man isn't open to learning new information. This is going to be a long hard ride.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is doubling down on his crusade against marijuana legalization.

Sessions, a longtime opponent of marijuana use, warned Tuesday easing access to the drug could lead to local supermarkets selling cannabis.

“States can pass whatever laws they choose,” Sessions told a crowd of attorneys general at the National Association of Attorneys General Winter Meeting. “But I’m not sure we’re going to be a better, healthier nation if we have marijuana being sold at every corner grocery store.”

Sessions then appeared to criticize a column The Washington Post published Tuesday by Sam Kamin, professor of marijuana law and policy at the University of Denver. In the op-ed, Kamin argues that the opioid crisis is “a reason to expand access to marijuana rather than to contract it.” A 2016 study from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health found “adverse consequences of opioid use” decreased over time in states where marijuana is legalized as individuals substituted marijuana for opioids to treat pain.

But Sessions scoffed at Kamin’s reasoning.

“Give me a break,” Sessions said. “This is the kind of argument that has been out there. [It’s] almost a desperate attempt to defend the harmlessness of marijuana or even benefits. I doubt that’s true. Maybe science will prove me wrong. ... My best view is that we don’t need to be legalizing marijuana.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...ana-grocery-store_us_58b58d8de4b0a8a9b7863d93

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I find it interesting that Trump is the first president since Clinton that has presumably never smoked cannabis in his entire life. According to him he has never even had a drink.

Being that he is a casino owner he had to see a bit of drunken shenanigans. The people around him swear that marijuana is the debil and a million times worse than gettin drunk causing a ruckus.

He still sees the world through the reefer madness and takes his cabinet suggestions as gospel.

Strange viewpoint for this place and time.

Let me put this out there in case I'm misunderstood....and since Ogtg is having an apology meltdown.

I'm not a Republican. I'm not a Democrat.

If something one of those parties says rings true to me, I don't shit on it and call it a sandwich.

I've liked some Republicans, and I've liked some Democrats, and I've liked some independents.

Realistically you can't vote Independent, it's a wasted vote.

Did I love Hillary? Nope, alot of what she said and did gave me some agida.
Did I love Trump? Nope, same deal.

In fact, some of what he says about jobs being lost overseas, and the border being porous is absolutely true. Yes, that's right...the pathological lying annoying orange does occasionally have something truthful and accurate to say.


However, the way he'd like to go about accomplishing getting those jobs back and how he'd like to impact our borders is an issue.

Do I think we'd be living in a perfect Utopian society had Hillary won? Nope, I'm pretty sure we'd still be in much the same mess we are now. BUT, there'd be one marked difference.....I wouldn't be MORE worried about the state of affairs we have. I wouldn't be worried that anyday now the shit will hit the fan harder than it already has.
I definitely wouldn't be concerned about more racist rhetoric and hate being tossed around like a football.
I definitely wouldn't be worried about crackdowns on marijuana.
I definitely wouldn't be perturbed by crackdowns on human rights.
I definitely wouldn't be worried about overturning laws that have served us well for decades.
Every CNN news alert wouldn't make my skin crawl or make me think "holy crap, how much worse can things get?".

Trump was an amusing reality TV show host. Trump was a mediocre businessman, with many more losses than gains....just think Casinos crashing and burning left and right in AC.
In fact, without a helping hand from his daddy, he'd be nothing.
The ONE thing Trump is good at, is BRANDING. He'll slap his name on everything and convince you that a pile of shit is platinum....until it bankrupts.

Now he's trying to Brand the US...."MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN".

I got news for you. You can't make America great by putting on a red hat and being a loudmouth.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Maybe it's because I've lived in States with Draconian laws all my life, but nothing will change for me. Regardless of who does what, I'm not going to be negatively impacted by whatever happens. I'm already there, so to speak. And I get by just fine.

All of you guys that have been around since before Cali first legalized med use knows what I mean. It may be a tough pill to swallow for some of you younger folks that have had it good, and I feel for you. It sucks.

So my advice is make some alternate plans and hope you don't have to use them. But if you do, well remember us older guys. We've dealt with prohibition forever. And we get by...

You boys are not very nice to each other. I feel sorry for the mods trying to keep ya'll from slapping each other around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUAURmmqebE

brown_thumb said:

You boys are not very nice to each other. I feel sorry for the mods trying to keep ya'll from slapping each other around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUAURmmqebE

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Perhaps the Mods are partial to the odd 'Punch and Judy Show'...on occasion?

But when a politically charged thread goes waay off topic, and it turns into a bunch of guys spouting vile rhetoric and mediocre insults at each other, someone has to step into the playground and stop the fight.

*Not to say this thread has gone far off topic, as yet, so please do carry on.

The first test could be as early as this weekend at the cup in Nevada...

Trump Puppets: "Move along, folks. Nothing to smoke here". The vendors cuffed and disappeared for decades...

Trump administration will go States Rights and all states will legalize like dominos. Probably all 50 by end of term. Tea Leaves