US prosecutors won't take on small-time pot cases, Attorney General Jeff Sessions says
Source: WCVB-TV Boston/AP
Updated: 11:33 AM EST Mar 10, 2018
WASHINGTON Attorney General Jeff Sessions says federal prosecutors won't take on small-time marijuana cases, despite his move to lift an Obama-era Justice Department policy that discouraged U.S. authorities from cracking down on the pot trade in states where the drug is legal.
Sessions said Saturday that federal law enforcement lacks resources to take on "routine cases" and would continue to focus on drug gangs and larger conspiracies.
The comments come after Sessions said federal prosecutors should handle marijuana cases however they see fit. The move created uncertainty about the future of the burgeoning legalization movement.
Sessions said he won't allow states to flout federal law banning the drug. But he said federal prosecutors "haven't been working small marijuana cases before, they are not going to be working them now."
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)is really dumb you dumb fucking racist piece of shit.
If I was in charge out in CA I would make it so you cant travel there.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Hopefully, Rosenstein can reign in his Nazi azz.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)Just wondering...
groundloop
(11,522 posts)As well as who his audience is when he's babbling about it.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Another part of the plan to Make America White Again
7962
(11,841 posts)Now release small time pot offenders from prison
Champion Jack
(5,378 posts)Last edited Sun Mar 11, 2018, 09:56 PM - Edit history (1)
he owns stock in the private,for profit, prison industry
7962
(11,841 posts)But I guess even if he is, if he owned stock before, whoever handles his stuff NOW would probably still own it