Attorney General Jeff Sessions wont rule out going after legal pot with law designed to take down..

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory



Attorney General Jeff Sessions won’t rule out going after legal pot with law designed to take down mafia

TANA GANEVA
09 MAR 2017 AT 12:05 ET

On Hugh Hewitt’s show Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions doubled down on his anti-marijuana stance and suggested his department might go after pot businesses with laws designed to take down the mafia.

“I think it’s a more dangerous drug than a lot of people realize. I don’t think we’re going to be a better community if marijuana is sold in every corner grocery store,” the attorney general told Hewitt. Hewitt proposed a strategy for the federal government to clamp down on marijuana businesses in states where it’s legal: bringing racketeering charges against legal marijuana businesses.

“One RICO prosecution against one marijuana retailer in one state that has so-called legalization ends this façade and this flaunting of the Supremacy Clause. Will you be bringing such a case?” Hewitt asked Sessions. Sessions did not embrace the suggestion—but he didn’t rule it out, either.

“We will um … marijuana is against federal law, and that applies in states where they may have repealed their own anti-marijuana laws,” Sessions said in response. “So yes, we will enforce law in an appropriate way nationwide. It’s not possible for the federal government, of course, to take over everything the local police used to do in a state that’s legalized it.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-wont-rule-out-going-after-legal-pot-with-law-designed-to-take-down-mafia/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. He will arrest as many non whites, liberals and celebrities as he can.

He is like a 9 yr old with a gun and badge.

America is so ridiculous right now it is sickening.

[forgotmylogin]

14. "NIP IT IN THE BUD!"

[Dave Starsky]

17. Barney Fife is 20 times the man Beauregard is.

I'd take Deputy Fife in the AG position any day. At least he had a undeniable profound respect for the law.

[forgotmylogin]

22. You are so right.

And he means well, which is 60 percent of the battle.

[LiberalLovinLug]

16. But he will also scoop up a lot of deplorables, independents and libertarians

The police won't ask for party affiliation. (at least not yet!)

Populist Independents like Jesse Ventura will not take this without a fight. As well I'm guessing many Republican voters now used to dropping by their corner weed store.

[MFM008]

2. So much for

"STATES RIGHTS" from the Keebler elf.

[notdarkyet]

3. Stop it! Sick of you fukers.

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. What's he been smokin'?

[Charles Bukowski]

8. He only inhales fumes

from the crosses he burns.

[notdarkyet]

5. You lied on the stand you felon and should go to jail.

[m-lekktor]

6. FUCK him.

[Chicago1980]

7. I thought pricks like him believed in states rights?

I guess not when it involves his friends who are invested in private prisons can make a buck.

[mreilly]

9. I am so sick of these people...

"I think it’s a more dangerous drug than a lot of people realize." BULLSHIT. I've been smoking it off and on for 27 years now. Zero danger to it; just more fear-mongering and scare tactics from the crowd that rejects science in favor of superstitious dogma.

This asshole lied about his connections to the Russians amidst yet another scandal indicating this administration was installed via collusion with a foreign government. And the same asshole wants civil rights stuff sent back to the states so they can discriminate, but states rights doesn't matter when he's forcing his misguided, idiotic beliefs on people.

I live in Massachusetts where marijuana has been legalized. Even the state legislators here are dragging their feet on getting the doors of pot shops opened up for business. I HAVE HAD IT. It's legal, it's harmless, and it's a boon to people like me who drink too much alcohol and would like to switch to something less harmful.

I will not allow this shameless little toad to negatively impact my life in any way, shape or form. Legal or not, threats or not, I'm going to exercise my freedoms. These turds only care about freedom when they want to discriminate or target other people, of course.

[notdarkyet]

10. People like him think it's dangerous because they have no brains to fry

[malchickiwick]

11. FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!!

They will have to pry my legal buds loose.

[William Seger]

12. Fucking idiot

He'll put the illegal distributors back in business.

[lordsummerisle]

18. This

^^

[DefenseLawyer]

13. Just wait until Hugh Hewitt finds out it's not the WHITE Supremacy Clause

that's being flaunted. He'll be so disappointed.

[tinrobot]

15. States rights are great... except when you disagree.

Geez...

[lordsummerisle]

19. I haven't paid much attention to Hewitt before

I didn't know he was such a d*ckhead.

[mpcamb]

20. The DEA needs to reclassify marijuana.

They said they would with more research.

Decriminalize it. Call it a program and get Sessions tiny little mitts out of it.
In no way does it belong with the other dangerous narcotics.

[Yavin4]

21. Marijuana is indeed a gateway drug

A gateway for putting African Americans into jail.

[Dawson Leery]

23. Oh look, another kkkonfederate subhuman who opposes states rights.

...cause "states rights" is code word for legal racism.

[Flaleftist]

24. Jury nullification time

We may be at a point where enough people support it that at least 1 person can manage to get on to jury to nullify.