Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
January 5, 2018
There is a growing bipartisan group of Senators that is not going to stand by while Jeff Sessions takes us back several generations on marijuana policy. More later.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) January 5, 2018
We must stop Jeff Sessions' backwards actions. There is now great urgency to pass the Marijuana Justice Act to legalize marijuana on the federal level.
Now is the time. Call your Senator. https://t.co/Cr8FZjITWI pic.twitter.com/9OMTz3VMjN
— Sen. Cory Booker (@SenBooker) January 4, 2018
You can have my bong, Jeff Sessions, when you pry it from my cold, dead, stinky hands.
— dean norris (@deanjnorris) January 5, 2018
The war on drugs didn’t stop drug usage; it just ruined a lot of lives. Jeff Sessions is reviving it because he believes in using the criminal justice system as an instrument of racial and economic control of poor people and brown people. https://t.co/XRd8OldE2N
— Rep. Keith Ellison (@keithellison) January 4, 2018
Why Jeff Sessions' anti-marijuana agenda is racist https://t.co/h5CfcY9GLQ pic.twitter.com/S06WQAexv9
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) January 5, 2018
I said that I didn’t think the DoJ should be dealing with weed until other issues were dealt with, but that was before I saw these people’s response.
The Trump administration ashed the legal marijuana industry’s budding flame Thursday, announcing it would end an Obama-era policy to tread lightly when enforcing federal cannabis laws.
States that have legalized marijuana for recreational use — including Washington, Colorado and California – immediately cried foul.
California’s law, creating the world’s largest legal pot market, had just taken effect New Year’s Day.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ announcement allows federal prosecutors to consider bringing marijuana cases, but falls short of ordering them to do so. Justice Departmnent officials did not say whether pot shops and legal growers would be targeted.
Sessions, a long-time opponent of marijuana while serving in the U.S. Senate, and some law enforcement officials blame the legalization of marijuana for a number of problems, including the trafficking of black market weed.
Authorities also fear an uptick in stoned drivers and worry that widespread acceptance of the drug could increase its youth appeal.
Yeah, no shit. They legalized drugs in Portugal and now all young people are on them.
And yes: I am loving the freakout.
That said, yes: I think there are much more important problems.
Sessions isn’t dealing with Hillary and her crew. Maybe he thinks he’s recused from that but he actually isn’t. He is dealing with sanctuary cities but not really that much with the larger immigration issue.
Also, Sessions is a representative of the Trump administration, and the Trump administration should be choosing battles carefully. Weed is very popular. Immigrants are not.
As much as I hate hippies and believe they should be ground into a gel and fed to pan fish, there are better battles to fight right now.