Representatives Tom Garrett (R-VA) and Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) have introduced bipartisan legislation in Congress to exclude marijuana from the federal Controlled Substances Act, thus providing states with the exclusive authority to regulate the plant how best they see fit.
The “Ending Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017” removes the cannabis plant from the CSA so that it is no longer scheduled under federal law. This legislation gives states the power and flexibility to establish their own marijuana policies free from federal interference.
Individual states are “more than capable” of deciding their own cannabis policies, Rep. Garrett explained in a prepared statement.
According to polling data released last week by Quinnipiac University, 59 percent of Americans endorse legalizing the adult use of marijuana, and 71 percent of voters — including majorities of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, believe that state governments, not the federal government, should be the ultimate arbiters of marijuana policy.
With the recent confirmation of militant marijuana prohibitionist Jeff Sessions to the position of US Attorney General, and with comments from the Trump administration warning of a coming federal crackdown in adult use states, our best defense is a strong offense.
Please take time today to contact your federal elected officials and urge them to act on passage of the “Ending Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017.” You can do so by clicking here.
Speaking earlier today before the National Association of Attorney Generals, Session’s doubled-down on his reefer rhetoric — denying scientific facts that legalizing cannabis access is associated with lower rates of opioid abuse (“Give me a break,” he responded) and urging state AGs, “[W]e don’t need to be legalizing marijuana.”
If the Justice Department won’t listen to reason, then we must take this issue out of its hands. Act now to pass the “Ending Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017” to ensure that medical marijuana patients and others are protected from undue federal interference.
Yes, this looks like the easiest way to legalize swiftly and easiest.
Jeff Sessions is a total loser. He is fake news. He uses alternate facts, shit he is pulling out of his ass. That scorpion hasn’t changed his nature.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-sessions-warns-america-marijuana-grocery-store_us_58b58d8de4b0a8a9b7863d93?pstfwcpmfp1ty8ehfr&
Oh, sorry TheOracle, did not see you found the article on Huffington already. Well, perhaps my Yahoo! article can also be posted, again, everyone can comment in the comments section in support of legalization. Thanks, TheOracle, though, glad you saw it too. Very scary indeed, although I will say, Sessions STILL has not said for CERTAIN that he will crackdown, but I know better than that!
Take a look at the latest 4473 form, and federal overreach as far as medicinal use of Marijuana started in 2016. It is a states issue and decisions, none of federal gov. business. We are probably in for another fight.
Jefferson Sessions has to be the most DELUSIONAL man on the PLANET. UNBELIEVABLE!
He may be delusional but Obama was the most delusional of all times.
He said if it’s legal young people will be using it. That is a false statement as Govenor Hickinlooper even said teen use is down since legalization. Also legal mj is paying for scholarships. So when he pulls the plug on it he will be hurting more than just the consumers.
Well hell, if that’s the case let’s outlaw crack, meth, acid, and all the other dangerous drugs. That way teenagers won’t use it.
No kidding, I do think they are enjoying this…
Lets start growing cars and see what happens, there goes big steel.
https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/03/01/jeff-sessions-may-hate-cannabis-but-he-sure-loves-big-tobacco/
Excellent link, Mexweed. I advise everyone to take a quick look.
Sessions has been fighting FOR the Big Tobacco for decades, and fiercely resisted defining tobacco as “a drug.”
Of course, tobacco is a drug. It is extremely addictive, and is more deadly than all the other drugs combined.
Sessions is DRUG WARRIOR. Like Trump, he cares nothing for our society or the people who live in it.
His Goal, and Trump’s, is war.
Get ready.
Sometimes I imagine a technology that can laser-project links to peer-reviewed evidence right behind a politician while they lie. Everyone could just download an app that could verify the link’s authenticity and independent investigations would be triggered. But then I realize the hubris of lies Trump and Sessions said during and after the campaign that didnt require a link so much as drain where we could flush these @$$wipes.
And then I remind myself that any accountability of an independent investigations always goes beyond the politician to the special interests who purchase them using the money from the consumers who purchase their products. And theres a damn label on a cigarette box that says “will cause cancer.” And people still buy them? What do we need? A 3D hollogram video of someone dying on a respirator popping up next to Sessions while he talks with another video image of a healthy person consuming marijuana? Is that what our average attention tolerance for research has been reduced to?
What really gets me is Sessions was the first Senator to endorse Trump and people I know who voted for Trump acted surprised when he was nominated to AG. Aspertame, nicotine and Fox “news” cause brain damage. I seen it.
Meanwhile, 24hrs later, theres this:’
http://action.chrismurphy.com/page/s/sessions-resign?source=em170302-c&utm_medium=email&utm_source=chrismurphy&utm_campaign=jeff-sessions&utm_content=resign
Thanks for posting this link. He’s an old guard prohibitionist.
I see ignorance is alive and thriving here. Too bad ignorance is the new NORML!
Glad to see bipartisan approach. Need this to happen. I have always seen this as a states rights issue. Some people seem to support states rights only when it is something they approve of. Can’t pick and choose.
State rights! i was under the impression we all had the same rights. how can anyone say its ok in colorado but not georgia. are they better than georgia ? I guess they just have more balls to stand for whats right tired of the politics end it !!!!!
I hear you. People’s rights!
Look, I’ll take the “states’ rights” protections that we have, and I am grateful for them. But at the same time, I don’t wish to be guilty of situational ethics, and I think human rights and civil rights are far more relevant here… because states are like corporations — they’re legal fictions, which may (or may not) be necessary social constructs, but they certainly are not flesh-and-blood sentient beings! And so, their “rights” are largely metaphorical as well, and always less than that of an actual human being. Any “rights” states may have are derivatives of the rights of actual human beings.
Politically speaking, I think we should support the rights of states like Colorado to legalize it, because that’s the law (and because my ass depends on it personally, I don’t deny it); but our primary arguments should go deeper — civil rights, human rights, and social justice.
Hi everyone. I am coming back on here tonight sometime to comment on this article. I just wanted to share an interesting article I found today that, while I know might be semi-relevant, I wanted to post before it became to late in the comments section:
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-is-killing-this-trump-supporters-weed-business-191135028.html#comments
Stay strong, and let us have hope for Mr. Lee.
and, oh, please feel free to show your support for legalization in the comments section at the bottom of the Yahoo! article if you so choose/this article. See you all later, and keep the faith and the passion.
@ Matt,
Thanks for the link to the interesting article. It boggles my mind to think that anybody in the pot business could be upbeat about a Trump administration. I saw this coming the day after the election.
Trump supporters just can’t seem to get it through their heads that they’ve been scammed: Trump never was, and never will be, a public servant. THAT WAS THE SCAM! He is a con-man, he is there solely to enrich himself and his cohorts.
The con was successful, he’s shoved it into their faces, and they still don’t get it. Wow.
Pro-pot Trump supporters are still talking about what would be good for the country, or good for the economy — as if Trump gives a shit! He never did, he never will.
And, he is still working the scam, even now! He’s still at it! Everything he does is to enrich himself — it’s one big criminal shakedown of America herself! And they don’t see it; or at least, they pretend not to see it!
How do you break through a denial that severe?
The problem is you think its the GOP thats corrupt but the Democrats are as well, so when you call out one side as if the other is the solution it becomes a non-solution.
Calling out Trump or Sessions or any member of the GOP for their selfish enrichment is not automatically saying Democrats dont do it either. False equivalency is a wasted diversion when we need to be focused on the green Act tab in this webpage.
I totally agree with you, Julian. While there are many tears and much outrage, emotion alone won’t solve anything. We need to ACT, and the link is right up there!
On November 8th we “Snatched Defeat From the Jaws of Victory”..
Some people voted for weed and Trump,
Some people voted for weed and Johnson, Stein, or simply left the President box blank..
And now look what’s happened..
Traditionally the Democrats have been, if only slightly,, a little better on Weed.
On an earlier post I wrote a satire about the Democrats after all these years trying weed (as in endorsing a path to legalization in the platform) ,, and it ” didn’t do anything for us” (as in at the ballot box).
I understand why some people just can’t vote for democrats,, but,, you screwed the pooch on this one..
Not much good I can say about Hillary,, but I think she would have played bass on this one… ( as Mayor of the Simpsons put it,,, “let it not be said that whatever way the wind is blowing,, I do not also blow” )
Trump,, hey, if the majority of the Republican base was for weed,, then right now we would all be smoking ” Trump Brand Awesomely Awesome Fine Marijuana in the Bigly Container ” They’re not and we’re not…
You want to wait until the Republicans come around,, fine, your in Good Company. It took us 50 years to get the Democrats.. what’s another 50 years,,, I’ll light my first legal joint from a candle on my 105th birthday cake.
“if the majority of the Republican base was for weed”
It will happen faster if the movement was more Republican friendly. I write for them. Here is an example:
https://www.spartareport.com/2017/02/help-could-be-on-the-way/
Once, years ago, a committed, life-long Republican, who also happens to personally support marijuana legalization, told me something that has been driving me nuts ever since. He told me, “I just think marijuana legalization should happen under a Republican administration.”
In other words, for him, it was “R’s” before “MJ’s”. He is apparently willing to wait that long (fifty years, let’s say) for the Republicans to “come around”, rather than enable Democrats in any way. By his calculation, that was worth the wait.
If that’s a view that is representative of the rest of the lot, then we’re not going to get a lot of help from the “R”‘s for the next fifty years or so, and therefore perhaps ought not waste resources trying to persuade them, if this is indeed the case. If this is true, we should consider all pro-pot Republicans merely Republican propagandists, who would be only using the issue of cannabis legalization as a vehicle to promote their white supremacist agenda.
We should not be complicit in this.
And my pleasure, Mark!
Trumps russian connections should bring him down during the investigations he is the subject of. I was listening to MSNBC the day before the address, the reason trump is enamored of Putin, is the money he was paid in a convoluted scheme of scratch my back I’ll scratch yours. A certain man called the king of fertilizer paid Trump $100,000.000 for a mansion that trump paid $40,000,000 for with out any personal contact. His go between was his new commerce secretary who was the president of the bank of Cyprus that was used to launder the money from russian oligarchs.
Stunning. To think that our best hope for protection from Sessions may be Trump’s traitorous involvement with Russia, and the ongoing, often conflicting investigations into all of that?!
News reports tell me Sessions has lied under oath during his confirmation hearings, and as a result of that scandal, has recused himself from investigations into the Trump campaign, but that the FBI (Remember FBI director James Comey, who HIMSELF interfered in the election, for Trump and against Hillary?) is REFUSING TO COOPERATE with the congressional investigations into the Trump/Russia connections? This is some big-time, high-level shit happening here.
Thus, Trump may, in fact, be holding Sessions back from attacking the marijuana industry, but not in the way that his supporters on this blog have been suggesting! Trump has Sessions jumping around, just trying to keep his job and stay out of jail!
But I wouldn’t count on that to distract them for very long. We still have a big, big problem.
The Russian man youre talking about is Dimitry Ryobovlovlev:
https://www.palmerreport.com/news/dmitry-rybolovlev-who-keeps-flying-in-to-meet-donald-trump-owns-russian-money-laundering-bank/1692/
He’s a Russian money launderer. Russians oligarchs like Dimitry have a need to launder cash around U.S. sanctions. Trump ran for president because he needed to crawl out of tax debt. And he’s a con man: terrible at business as what taxes of his we have seen reveal. Trump was so costic after his casino and Trump airline failures that US banks wouldnt loan him a dime since the mid-nineties. And he owed them alot. So to keep the lights on at Trump resorts, Hotels, golf courses and other properties Trump had to borrow Russian money. A lot of Russian money.
The insane fact is not only has Trump put his surrogates in hot water to fund his campaign with Russian laundered money, first with Flynn, now Sessions, but our current President is STILL attempting to secretly meet with Ryobovlovlev! That’s right; the guy that couldn’t have enough camera time, that won the election from the washing machine of laundered cash that our campaigns have become since Citizens United sold our Democratic Republic to the highest laundering bidder$ (Adelson, John Paulson, etc.) …actually believes he can just skip off to Switzerland unnoticed and meet with ol Dimitry… a guy who owns the bank of Cyprus which is known to illegally launder Russian money… And Trump is so full of hubris he thinks he can meet with Dimitry any time he needs to without being noticed?!
It’s an almost laughable exposition of witless failure and yet the GOP still backs him? How long can this go on?
To keep it on topic, money launderers are a major force at promoting marijuana prohibition. Prohibiting state legal marijuana operations is another form of enriching powerful laundering brokers. Laundering promotes prohibition because every tax evader from black market cartels to black ops needs to clean their books for the banks and the launderers feel compelled to protect their best client$.
Just take one example in my previous post: Sheldon Adelson. The casino magnate donated millions to stop various initiatives, successfully stopping legalization in Florida and Arizona. Sheldon hit the news back when Romney was running for President and took a hard break from the campaign to go to Vegas and kiss Adelson’s rings for funds. It was a new era of Citizens United where our own election campaigns effectively became money washing machines, creating unprecedented demand and supply to launder money. Trump largely ran as if he didnt need Adelson or the Koch brothers, with publications saying “Trump hadnt received any money” from them, pleasing the egos of his Trumped-up followers still wounded by Romney’s public @$$ ki$$ing. Clearly,Trump believed he didnt need the money anyway; he had a deal with Russia. (Thats right, I said it: prove me wrong). But with laundry donors as powerful as off shore tax havens for Big Pharma in the game, candidates dont need to ask for support, if they say yes to these off shore tax havens theyll get the help anyway. Notice how Trump funded his campaign by loaning money to his own campaign? Notice how Adelson sat right behind Trump during his innaugeration?
The only ways to get marijuana fully out of prohibition is to allow legal access to cannabanking. (Click on the green Act button)
We can have an elevated conversation about off shore tax havens, ending Citizens United and the need for capitalist government economies to hide campaign money later; for now lets figure out how to our get legal cannabis out of the washing machine.
Well of course. Trump’s Russian connections.
You are aware that Hillary was involved with selling off a part of America’s uranium reserves to the Russians. Aren’t you?
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The sky is not falling. Trump still supports Medical Cannabis. As good as I’d like? No.
Still better than any previous President.
I just read my own posts against yours and I noticed one major difference: A link to facts. You sound rediculous. And your false equivalencies are not helping end marijuana prohibition or the survival of our Democratic Republic. Do the Clintons launder money? Of course. Does anyone believe their Clinton Foundation is comparable to the racket Trump has going with Russia? Far fewer than the elections you little propagandist you…
As long as Citizens United is around we will see money laundering in our campaign. We’ve been down this road before MSimon but you still wont pull your head out of your @$$. So lets agree on one thing: Click on the Act tab, call our Congressman:
202-224-3121
And lets focus on the “Ending Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017” and ending prohibition together, shall we?
@ Julian,
Ever notice how MSimon never answers any questions? Never acknowledges a single fact? Just blows right past all inconsistencies and contradictions?! That pushes my buttons more than anything, I think. It’s like arguing with your goddamn TV set!!
You’re delusional blogs are sad. Save the Trump and Trump supporter put downs for next election as obviously, you are the minority since Trump won in a landslide, and at this point the country has already become stronger. You are also delusional to think Obama or Hillbag would make this country any stronger, as it has weakened thru the Obama administration. This blog is about legalization of marijuana, as a Trump supporter, I fully support the legalization. Trump is a smart guy, he understands the positive flow of tax money that could be made thru marijuana legalization, as some states are now realizing. It is a rolling stone gathering momentum. I believe Trump wants to do as the people want, therefore, if the people wants marijuana legalization, I believe he will provide that.
Nice read, thanks for posting the link to the article.
Just because Trump isn’t interested in the cannabis business doesn’t mean he should put the kibosh on it. If he wants jobs, well, small businesses and start-ups such as those in the cannabis sector are the kinds of businesses that will make jobs–if they can stay in business long enough.
An even playing field for banking and with the IRS would help greatly, as well as keeping Jerk Sessions from fucking up things for the cannabis community.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/on-small-business/who-actually-creates-jobs-start-ups-small-businesses-or-big-corporations/2013/04/24/d373ef08-ac2b-11e2-a8b9-2a63d75b5459_story.html?utm_term=.c67ce1ac0e0d
http://www.nber.org/digest/feb11/w16300.html
What Trump “should” do is irrelevant to Trump. He is a thug and a sociopath.
“What Trump “should” do is irrelevant to Trump. He is a thug and a sociopath.”
Wonderful comment!
Guaranteed to attract the Republican support we need to further our ambitions.
Way to go!
The way were gaining support is because Trump supporters who support marijuana legalization are done with the @$$ ki$$ing. Once again, MSimon, we will work with Republicans that exhibit reason and act on their support for marijuana legalization. It worked out great for me and my Republican state legislator, but thats a rare example. Trump’s credibility is so damaged at this point he’s a sinking ship, much like in Matt’s link to the Trump-supporting cannabis-ship owner from Florida is having to do today; sink millions of dollars because he couldnt accept the guy he voted for is a con man.
Can you?
The thing is, MSimon, Trump’s thuggish, sexist, racist, bigoted, psychotic behavior clearly doesn’t offend you; I base this on your blatant and perpetual Trump promotional propaganda.
The groping, the threats, the lies, the scams, the Russian ties, the corruption, the scandals, the deceptions, the perjuries… none of it bothers you — at least, not enough to be honest about it, not enough to admit any of the basic facts.
No, what upsets you IS WHEN I SAY IT!
MSimon, screw you. Your priorities are so skewed and repugnant, I will never stop calling you on your vomit-stream of lies.
Will that offend other Trumprhoids like yourself? Probably.
Well boo fucking hoo.
Its sad dick wads like Mark, Simon and all the little political whiners that cant face the fact that the election was won in a landslide cant put their moronic ignorance aside and use this site for the purpose it is meant for. Pushing the republican supports away with ignorance and your pitiful put downs are a resemblance of your low IQ. I voted for
Trump and I want to see legalization…..so get over it.
This, ladies and gentlemen, this is what we need.
Put an end to prohibition on MJ !!!
Recreational AN medical !!!
Absurd…we the people have spoken !!!
As a law abiding citizen(I felt the need to quit a few years ago in order to be one) who has Parkinson’s Disease and knows the value of Marijuana’s medicinal properties, I hope and pray that common sense is used rather than complete bias to this issue.
It’s a plant, that saves life’s not takes them, however they will never be legalized, to much money from big pharm, it’s a damn shame too, thought we was living in the land of the free
@ Brandon halcomb,
Cannabis is a “miracle” drug; but it cannot legalize itself — so, if you haven’t already, please click on the green “act” tab on the front page of this website.
Put an end to marijuana prohibition for the sake of healthcare.
Did you send an email?
Did you click the green “act” tab?
Are you willing to “participate in your own liberation”, as Gandhi advises?
Please, everybody: go up to the article above, find the sentence that says
Please take time today to contact your federal elected officials and urge them to act on passage of the “Ending Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017.” You can do so by clicking here.
…go to the word “here”, (in the article above, not this comment) and click on it!
Fill in your name and address and stuff (don’t be scared, be brave) and send the email!
Please! We seriously need everybody who reads this to send an email, at the very minimum. It’s not hard, and it’s the least you can do if you truly care about marijuana legalization. This is the moment to join in, and act.
The good news is it’s fast and easy, so there’s no excuse not to do it! Please!!!
This sounds good! Where do we find the text of the Bill?
Prez Trump stated a few times during his campaign and after he was the prez elect. Medical MJ should be legal nation wide and rec mj should be up to the states. sessions better get in line or get gone
Sessions IS in line. Both Trump and Sessions are against drug legalization, including marijuana. Both have declared War on us.
You’ve been Trump-fucked, my dear friend. Time to open your eyes. Trump is your enemy, not your friend. Trump is against marijuana legalization, despite his campaign lies.
Do you still believe a word Trump says? Don’t be a fool.
Trump continues to support Medical. More than any other President has done.
Ideal? No. But a start.
President Obama forwarded the Cole memos to keep the DOJ off state legalization, without which we would not have state marijuana legalization.
Trump nominated Sessions.
Surely, you must realize youre not fooling anyone on this webpage?
Please PASS THIS BILL!!!
Please click on the green “act” tab, and send an email to your representatives!
Hi all…and NORML, thanks for posting my earlier link. I am still going to respond to this NORML post, but I just found something that has once again brought me fear…I don’t know if anyone else saw this, but there is also another article on Yahoo.com right now….this is most disturbing….
https://www.yahoo.com/news/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-just-153433176.html
We MUST be vigilant…..very scary
Glad we have their support! I hope the DEFY Sessions and Trump and any crackdown! I hope they REFUSE to help Sessions. I know they cannot stop the DEA, but it will frustrate Sessions resource capabilities if they do! Sessions should know he is going to look like an IDIOT if he cracksdown, why would he want to, it is only going to HURT the image not only of the DOJ but of Trump as well! That is a FACT.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/28/governors-to-trump-chill-out-on-the-weed.html
I hope the governors at least manage to delay a crackdown and stand in defiance of Sessions and his total stupidity. This time a more positive article.
oh crap….maybe I should have read the NORML post first, lol, it clearly states at the end my earlier article post about Session’s comments. My apologies, but I still hope my article on it is helpful, lol. Oops. That statement though, about we dont’t need to legalize, is quite frankly, the most dire. It may mean his mind is made up about a crackdown. This is bad, but we can resist. The sad thing though is how much damage he could do to what would be a thriving market, and already is. It’s just sad….however, know this. He will never completely defeat us or the cause of legalization. Everytime they crackdown, we only grow STRONGER. To avoid going crazy on posting, I am now going to take this time to respond to this article….this Act is EXACTLY what we need, another powerful solution to this problem of stopping Federal interferance. The CSA is SO outdated, and the 1937 prohibition this year is 80 years old. It is time for change, hats off and thanks to Reps. Garrett and Gabbard, but we MUST remember, Sessions could move quickly because he knows about this…we need to get these acts passed FAST. We don’t have months to wait. Legislators need to move QUICKLY. Write your legsislators, call them, attend NORML chapters and town halls. We must move fast. The fact that Sessions is talking so much about marijuana legalization is very worrisome, he seems to be very focused on it, and this is not good.
Click that link and act now. Because they could roll out the proverbial tanks any day, tommorow, this week, or any hour. We must act fast and we must push back. We might take some damage along the way, but we can keep legalization alive including at least some retail (I was doing some thinking earlier today…realized that in three states that have legalized, Nevada, Mass, and Maine….yep, Republican governors. Not good). This is the time to prepare for WAR. Because I, in deep pain, in tears, in desperation, very much think it is coming. But stand strong, brothers and sisters, stay vigilant, every single day now we need to be watching. Because it could start on any day now. Any hour. Thank you, and let us stand together. I will be back on later to respond and also to check any new news and updates.
Proverbial tanks,, I see an M1 Abrams coming through the wall.. Hell of a photo op..
The Republican Governors in legal States plan to oppose Sessions.
Republicans are no longer monolithic on the issue.
We should endeavor to attract more of them. I’m doing my part. I write for them.
https://spartareport.com/2016/10/heroin-making-war-abused-children/
It seems you are persuading neither Republicans nor Democrats to your cause.
You seem to be a Trump social-media operative who thinks progressives are going to start sucking up to Trump, simply because YOU say he supports legalized marijuana — which, of course, is a lie.
But progressives are not going to do that, if for no other reason than Trump (and you) have no credibility whatsoever among the political left, and so there’s simply no reason to waste time attempting to cut a deal that would be meaningless from the start.
We owe them nothing, and that’s exactly what they will get from us by way of concession.
The Trump supporters voluntarily yield nothing, ever, to anyone or anything. Given the opportunity for political dialogue and exchange, they are completely intransigent, and fully deceptive; thus it’s pointless to “play nice” with them. Ever.
What a lost cause you represent.
How sad.
One last post for now, folks. Just read in a Monday article when Sessions was talking about violence…he apparently said the J.Dept would try and adopt “responsible” policies when ENFORCING anti-marijuana laws. Does this mean it is official, he WILL crackdown?
Sessions could go the administrative route, firing off warning letters to initiate the crackdown, but DEA raids are surely going to be unannounced, if they happen. Personally, I’m expecting simultaneous DEA raids in all legal states. But I sincerely hope I’m mistaken, and I hope that WE THE PEOPLE will be able to prevent this from happening via political action.
Click on the green “ACT” Tab, Good People!
Thank you, Mark. I have wondered if Sessions would START administrately (sp.) benignly…with letters. Here is the thing: the governors and their state officials will REFUSE to comply.
Now comes the HORROR……….Sessions sends in the DEA troops.
There is NOTHING we can do against the DEA. Though many soldiers may, quite possibly, be assualted by pissed-off store owners, some of whom, make their liveliehood doing this. Many former felons will be arrested…..
Here is what will happen once retail is GONE.
All of US stoners will go underground and continue to sell weed and continue to enjoy it.
Here is our nemesis…..NOW….Jeff Sessions will ORDER the governor “repeal that law and change it back, I don’t care if you want to fine marijuana users, but get this DANGEROUS drug off our streets.” It will be just like it was BEFORE 2012, but this time, the cops will have ALOT more stoners, and and underground culture, to deal with. Thank you again, Mark. This forum may serve as a place even when we disagree, but there is no need to attack others, everyone. Everyone has a voice. Let’s keep it peaceful. PLEASE. Thank you. M
lol, hey Mark, when I said “disagree” I meant others, NOT you. I appreciate your support. Let’s make weed legalization happen, TOGETHER. So a woman can enjoy….at an art show, museum, by the pool, even in school. Activist rally, whatever. Every day I wake up it is interrupted with PAIN the moment I think about Jeff Sessions and the coming attacks, the rape and the abuse. Thank you, NORML. M
Sessions can not make States enforce Federal law.
It is how Alcohol Prohibition ended. States stopped making alcohol illegal.
A good article on the subject:
http://hightimes.com/culture/pot-matters-assessing-the-counter-revolution/
This is the most logical bill I’ve seen by far. States’
Rights with no controlled substance issues. Spread the word. This is the one to get behind!
@ John,
Right! And please don’t forget to click on the green “act” tab, send an email to your representatives, or they’ll never hear you!
CBD and THC are Neuroprotective Antioxidants
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC20965/
The world is overwhelmed by neurotoxins like fluoride, alcohol, mercury and aluminium in vaccines and aspartame.
People need the neuroprotective cannabinoids of cannabis now more than ever !
People must be free to grow cannabis with no restrictions or license like any other plant.
It’s time for people to stop being afraid of plants.
De-Schedule cannabis immediately!
Cannabis and Neurogenesis
http://ropevilleraider.tumblr.com/post/156415187503/cannabis-and-neurogenesis
hey smoke on this:
recreation is therapeutic!
but….but…but….
Good one.
I think part of the problem is the way we think about medical issues as a society — as a question of disease or not, and if so, which ones.
But the truth is, health is really about Wellness, not sickness. Wellness is the preferred option, as opposed to simply dealing with critical illness after it happens. I suppose I’m talking about Prevention, and this includes Prevention; but it’s even broader than that: Wellness.
Even now, intelligent people of good faith are skeptical of the “medical use” of cannabis — “You just want to get high,” they will say. Or, “I don’t think you’re really sick.”
But they are missing the fact that Wellness is the best choice. Not being critically ill is wonderful, no argument there; but that is not a reasonable threshold for cannabis use, which promotes Wellness.
To Norml
It’s to take serious action to run off the childish trolls or even agency trolls. It’s time Alphas take over and move serious legislation to end prohibition on marijuana especially medical marijuana. Please take the time to filter the trolls from comments. We don’t need to slander our government. We don’t need to slander the DOJ. We have no business slandering Jeff Sessions. We need people to grow up. Take charge. Not fuss whine and moan. We need to bring real concerns to the President, real concerns and agendas to our politicians. No one will listen nor take action with a bunch of bitchy childish behaviors. Please Norml. I’m tired of the fake meds with all their dangerous side effects. If we allow Federal marijuana laws to continue no one will have anything close to help them deal with illnesses. If DOJ has its way the only thing you will have left is booze to numb the mind, turn towards violent mood swings…and early deaths. But we must not slander our government we must find solutions and push our politicians to remove this matter from the DOJ’s hands. We must act like Alphas and bring real common sense back. If we allow the directions the DOJ wants to take we will become a lost hopeless prideless nation. Everyone needs to get on board and contact your politicians daily. Behave speak clearly with common sense. Bring real solutions.
So if I read you correctly we should stop fighting back and go back to begging…
Ok Freedom&Liberty, we can all agree on contacting our legislators daily to legalize and deschedule marijuana, (and replacing the prescription meds with marijuana might not be a bad idea either)… but there’s this pesky little thing called the First Amendment that allows us to post different opinions on this webpage and maybe… just perhaps… educate a troll with better questions than the supressive fear of “slandering” a government that lies to us and supresses our votes with Crosscheck programs, false threats, misinformation and rhetoric riddles of ignorance.
Its ok for us to accept when we are wrong. And when we are President or USAG? Accepting and understanding the facts of science BEFORE saying “maybe science will prove me wrong” is prerequisite to a functional Democratic Republic, or those things we value and call “freedom and liberty” will cease to exist.
And if the USAG or the President attack and muzzle truth and science? Then its ok to say they are the organized crime that menaces our society. Accepting anything less from our elected leaders, especially Congress, than making laws that reflect our best known peer-reviewed science is not “slander” much less being “Alpha,” buddy; failing to call out their lies is called being the Omega bitc# in a cabinet full of treasonous gangsters. So cite your studies when you write your Congressman. Or next thing you know you’ll be fetching Trump’s shine box like @$$-ki$$ing Chri$-Chri$tie. (Now THAT was slander, for good reference. 😉 )
Mr. President,, Is that you… this isn’t twitter..
By the way,, the Arkansas Bill to Ban smoking of Medical Marijuana at any location in the state and also bans edibles just cleared committee and now goes for a full vote in the Legislature.. Where the Republicans hold a 75% majority. Wadda ya think a that,,
Tell the First Lady I said hello next time you run into her at a public appearance,, or even if you see her before then…
You certainly bark orders a lot for someone with a name like “FreedomAndLiberty.” But I don’t recognize your authority to tell me what to do.
Jeff Sessions is a delusional bigot, and is apparently incapable of learning new information.
Trump is a bigot, a sociopath, a sicko, a fraud, a con artist, and a sad, sad, pathetic loser. The Republicans who protect these criminals are traitors.
We already have the solution. It’s not complicated, it’s simply “Legalize it.” That has always been the solution. But it is entirely the Republicans who are standing in the way now.
So keep your lectures to yourself. If you must lecture somebody, lecture the Republicans.
Congress will PASS the END of Marijuana prohibition !!! FACT
Someday,, but not this Congress.
Who’s going to win The World Series?
“MAYBE SCIENCE WILL PROVE I’M WRONG” echoes wrong….wrong… wrong…..wrong…..wrong….
(Sessions attacking the Post story).
http://www.refinery29.com/2017/02/143087/jeff-sessions-marijuana-grocery-comment
Wasn’t that the catch phrase of the year?
“Im gonna eat this box of donuts to lose weight…. Of course MAAYBE science will prove Im wrong…”
Hi all. As my final post on this article….just wanted to offer something that is helping me through these hard times—inspiring music. I listen to all kinds of music, all genres, currently, it is the powerful “Halo” by Beyonce, Heaven knows we and our brothers and sisters could all use an angel right now. Music truly relaxes the soul and calms the mind. And INSPIRES. So this is my last post on this article, but of course I will be watching for more news. But if you are feeling low, like I am during these horrible times for legalization, thinking of our friends in the shops and terrified of the crackdown, turn on some of your most powerful and inspiring artists. We are going to win this fight. No matter if Sessions shuts us down, we all know legalization will NEVER stop. Peace, and let’s stay strong. I will be back for the next update. M
This post is EXCLUSIVE to NORML mods……
Thank you SO MUCH for finding my post. I apologize sincerely for my orginal total ignorance. WOW, you folks are amazing. I am so sorry for my anger, I was just trying to, well, ensure what I considered a good post, wend though
Thank you, I will work on emotion, tone, and length of my posts.
Sometimes……the idea of Sessions abusing, starting and continuting to rip up, tear it down, bulldoze, DESTROY, it hurts me, every time I think about how Jeff Sessions is taking that NEXT step…..abusing our progress, the son of a bitch wants to now take it all apart. Because he’s to STUPID, to understand reality. Jeff Sessions,….is a moron.
My point is stand your ground, do whatever your can. Because they are coming. DEA considers ALL PRESENT, FELONS. Trust me. Here they coooooooome. I know they are NOT, but a legit concern.
NORML, thank you for posting this. I am telling you…..post, as often as you can. PLEASE.
THANK YOU
Guys please pass the link to this page everywhere you can. We need as many people signing this as possible.
do not know what happened to music post. NOT appreciated. No time for this at ALL.
Sessions is a man who upholds the law as it is written. That is good! All we on the MJ side need to do is push the Demos (some who oppose legal MJ like Feinstein) and the Republicans (who back states’ rights) to go with the flow and the prohibition will go!
Besides, there is enough “good news” on the MJ front to make a case with a man like Trump, who is a pragmatist.
Oh, bullshit. Trump is a walking con job. And you’re the sucker. Fuck that sack of shit Trump.
Fine example of Orwellian Doublespeak.. this is why everyone should read 1984.
Doesn’i Mr. Sessions’s have a KKK rally to attend?
The Klan is a Democrat organization.
Robert Byrd is a fine example.
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Seriously. What I do when I want to change minds is educate. Attacking is counter productive.
Suppose only 50% of Prohibitionist minds can be changed. That gets us from 60% to 80%. That means we are getting whole Republican States well past 50% support. That is what we need. States.
The temper tantrums I see around here are not useful.
The KKK is a terrorist organization who use racism to disguise the use of legal infiltration to incite fear and steal the property of minority communities.
Its not clear if your statement goes back to a time when southern Democrats represented fascist ideals of voter supression, but do you have to look that hard at where white supremacists are supporting today? Bannon as Chief Stategist? The GOP support despite Trump’s repeated failure to condemn white nationalist support? This was news last year:
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trump-backers-most-bigoted-gop
Exactly who do you think youre fooling?
I’d call my senator, but Toomey doesn’t answer his phone or listen to his constituents. He’s basically a GOP yes man.
Then I strongly encourage you to click on the green “act” tab and send an email.
Wait a minute Mark; While Im inspired by the encouragment to click the Act! Tab, (good work; go get’m!) in this case she should keep calling. Call their federal office. Call their local office. Visit their websites and track down where theyre going to be. Of course this is easier to do before an election and GOP Trump-chumps arent running like scared chickens from town halls like theyre on fire… but its very important to call our federal Congressman:
202-224-3121 (Switchboard US Congress).
Make it personal but respectful. Staffers dont get to read every email, they just feel compelled to respond after a dozen voting constituents send the same letter.
But they have to answer a question if they answer the phone. Then follow up after they say “I have no idea.” It wears them down. Dont give up.
Hell, Ive got to deal with Cruz and Cornyn. They respond to marijuana states rights letters with “I agree with the DEA.” (Hint: NOT a state agency Senators!) Theyre staffers dont always answer either: and when they do its Senator Cruz’s office! What can one possibly expect to credibly achieve? “Please tell the Senator not to flop like a spineless fish on mandatory minimums? Woops… too late.” No, it’s not easy being respectful to a guy who looks like he never got any in high school. Or college. Or… Congress. But we have to at least try so they know what respect IS. So call. Its fun to hear them studder and squirm at the word “marijuana.”
I stand corrected; “keep calling back” is better advice.
I just wanted to promote participation by suggesting the easier option, in case “jim” was becoming frustrated. An email is better than no contact at all.
But you’re right, a phone call is better than an email.
Haha.. I called “Jim” “she”… touché, I suppose we both stand corrected! 🙂
which bill number is this, 2 are to in house to respect states and 1 for reclassifying it. the 3 are HB331, HB715, HB975
A nice Jeff Sessons ATTACK, and for our small business….yes, including our weed.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/under-fire-sessions-says-hes-willing-to-recuse-himself-from-russia-probe-if-appropriate-142614493.html
previous post, here is the link
Thanks so much NOML! That is awesome! 🙂
on grandpa’s LITERALLY, laptop now. Great, thank you.
legalize marijuana
It looks like to me that removing this from schedule 1 to a much lower class or even all together would be the focus of Normal. If it was the CONgress that passed legislation that put it there then focus on that committee to make the changes. If every member would donate $10 to that cause, funding should be sufficient to but their attention. All the yelling and screaming to just legalize it has gone nowhere. Maybe its time to focus on a better way.
OPEN LETTER TO MR. TRUMP;
(The so called United States president.)
Dear Mr Trump;
After it is proven that you were elected illegally to the white house because of a deal with Russia to help you win the presidency, then every presidential action that you have taken before and after the election is illegal.
Which means all personell that you have placed into positions including the vice president and all your nominations for government positions, are also illegal.
And because of your illegal and criminal activities the entire election must be done over.
You are not mentally fit to be the president of anything.
Many psychiatrists are saying that your actions closely resembles someone who is
mentally ill.
It is highly suspected by psychological experts that you are a
paranoid schizophrenia pathological liar.
A bigoted racist.
And a sexist.
Your executive orders are destroying our Democracy.
You are also destroying our Environment by changing environmental protection laws to allow Corporations to dump their chemical wastes into our beautiful rivers.
And you are hurting many many of Gods Children by tearing them away from their families in your hateful immigration ban.
And now you are showing dictatorship tendencies by calling the news media an enemy of the American people.
Not to mention you leaning on and trying to pressure the FBI and other government law enforcement agencies and White House afficials by demanding that they make statements to the public that NOTHING WRONG has been done concerning Russia and the United States election.
Millions of Americans are demanding that you resign from the office of president immediately before your paranoid hysterical temper starts a world wide nuclear war.
W Bates
Reno Nevada
(If you agree then please feel free to send this letter to anyone you feel needs to know the facts)
It is possible Russia stole the e-mails. Possible.
There is no doubt Hillary wrote them.
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Now if you look at who is in line for the Presidency if you get Trump out – it doesn’t look good for cannabis.
Trump is a staunch supporter of medical. When we get that it will increase the contradictions. So Federally it is a good start. Better than any other President before him.
President Obama forwarded the Cole-memos to stop the DOJ from ending state legalization, which could happen as easily as filing an injunction in Federal court under the Supremacy Clause, (where supremacy Trump’s states rights… is that what you want?) Without the Cole memos we would not have state marijuana legalization.
Again, Trump nominated Sessions to USAG.
Do you have no shame?
Only YOU can legalize marijuana!!
Click on the “take action” link:
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/51046/p/dia/action3/common/public/
Try this one:
http://norml.org/act
Stoney the Bear probably means well, but… he’s just a bear. Not good with computers. Chews on the keyboard.
The credibility of Jeff Sessions is completely compromised by lying under oath. How can he be trusted to guide the legal standing of Cannabis already legal in many states and soon to become legal in others. Any legal compromise by him merely shows, not only his pathetic ignorance, but also points to possible conflicts of interest, requiring the need to come-up with a rational pander to his poor judgement.
If you dig deeper into the question and look at the whole conversation and the question he was answering – he didn’t lie. Don’t believe what you read from the main stream press.
Now about cannabis.
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BTW if Democrats keep up these attacks – I predict a Republican landslide in ’18.
If that happens we are going to have to get Republicans on our side. The temper tantrums don’t help cannabis.
Reposted Congressional video from late night television can fact-check you MSimon:
http://youtu.be/lzXrvTNOOqc
Do you need a snorkel? Because right about now youre drowning in your own bull$#!+.
We shouldn’t believe the mainstream press, but we should believe YOU?! Get the fuck out of here.
Seriously, MSimon, how long do we have to continue to disinfect this site, every time you take a dump here?
Are you getting paid for doing this? Or is it solely a mental illness?
I have gotten long sought after seizure control with medical cannabis. I relocated to save my life. I was a refugee able to return home last year after my home state legalized. I found growing in OR to be both therapeutic and the only way to ensure my medicine was grown organically! All need access to this plant and the fact that the endocannabinoid system has now been located in all mammals we all deserve the right to easy and preferred access. If the federals government wanted control they should have rescheduled long ago. Rescheduling is the only right thing to do for patients in need!
Debbie,
Trump supports medical cannabis. The first President to do so.
May you live long and prosper.
Fact:
Those pesky Cole memos from President Obama keep proving you wrong MSimon. We would not have state legalized medical marijuana if President Obama had not signed them and called off the dogs in the DOJ.
And Im not going away: Even though Im actually Julian Ive created this alter ego (in a world of alternate-alter-egos) JUST to fact check every piece of regurgitated nonsense you post on this webpage. Hold on to your noses editors; I think it’s gonna get a whole lot stinkier in here before we get this troll back under the bridge.
How dare you attempt to exploit the desperation of the critically ill for the purposes of promoting your white supremacist agenda, you worthless piece of shit.
Burn in hell.
Since we can’t reply to the one where Sessions says we don’t need to be legalizing Marijuana I’ll reply here. Fuck you Sessions you lied under oath during your confirmation hearing, no matter how you slice it. That’s enough to make him resign.
with what I’d said on Sessions this does look like a good thing and did take action and sent an email to my State Reps.
HaHa… thanks! 🙂
@ csaaphill,
Excellent. If this legislation is something which we “D’s” and “R’s” on this blog can ALL agree on, and make our combined, BIPARTISAN voices heard by clicking the green “act” tab and calling our representatives… then maybe that message will be loud enough to leverage that consensus onto a larger, national scale!
Let’s hope more Republicans, and Democrats, do as you have done.
If Trump does nothing but make Medical Cannabis permanently viable as he continues to promise (according to his spokesman Spicer) he will rank well ahead of any previous President.
Of course I’d like more – much more – but that is not a bad start. Why is it a good start? Because medical leads to recreational.
Ok, say it with me MSimon…
“Prez-ih-Dent Oh-BAH-Mah SINED thuh COLE memos that A-LOUD state LEEG-UH-Liz-A-SHUN!”
“Prez-ih-Dent TRUMP Nom-ih-Nated SESH-Uhnz!”
Just keep repeating that phonetically, smoke a bowl of Trainwreck, and write us in the morning. Youre going to be okaaay… maaaaybe…
Re: Sessions
Doesn’t he look like on of those actors from Reefer Madness? Maybe that’s what influences his views on pot.
When you eat a lot you get fat, yes. But you also add muscle. Lyle McDonald has written about this but in essence for every pound you add to your body some will be fat and some will be muscle. Tha;t#8217&s why a heavy person, even if he has never worked out, can be extremely strong.Also, improved leverage.
Fascinating.
Well. Legalize marijuana, I say!
It’s about time to start organizing massive protests in favor of legalization. Millions for Marijuana March on Washington? Let’s make the government hear us.
The reason cannabis is being kept illegal is because it breaks down mind control programming that the baby rapist and murderers of the armed services and other satanist groups. People need to wake up to the underlying brainwashed masses in these groups and go after them individually. The evil that these groups are doing is killing off good and innocent people daily especially on their satanic holidays. Please stop these people.
JS. = short mans disease
“If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
It is time to remove this useful medical grade plant from the list. Let’s get to curing and preventing MS, Parkinson and other debilitating conditions!
Time to get rid of big pharmaceutical companies control of the market.
Floridians For Freedom is a non-partisan statewide citizen‘s movement, formed to place the RIGHT OF ADULTS TO CANNABIS, [Serial No. 15-20], a Florida State constitutional amendment ballot initiative proposal, on the ballot for Florida Voters to approve or deny on Election Day, Tues. Nov. 6, 2018.
It is the way all adults in Florida will have legal and medicinal cannabis. Two months later, on January 8, 2019, after we vote and, if approved, you can legally plant a cannabis seed in your own herbal home garden to grow.
A second legal cannabis petition is also being signed by Florida voters called REGULATE FLORIDA [16-2]. We encourage Florida voters to sign both legal cannabis petitions. Each follows a different path regarding how to proceed. Voters have a choice, once we are on the ballot to vote to approve or deny legal cannabis, as to which path they would like to follow as their legal cannabis law.
RIGHT OF ADULTS TO CANNABIS in Florida, over the age of twenty-one, to possess, use and cultivate cannabis, for personal use, on private property and within the privacy of our own homes. Whether for medicinal use or for personal use, it is legal. This is the heart of “legal” cannabis. It will no longer be illegal.
Print out a RIGHT OF ADULTS TO CANNABIS [Serial Number 15-20] state constitutional ballot initiative petition. If you are a registered Florida Voter, fill out, sign and date the form.
Go to: FloridiansForFreedom.com
(Spanish versions available on line soon; by April 2017).
Join us! It is time we, the people, vote to decide the issue of legal cannabis in Florida.
We for a civil war for states rights. 620 thousand men lost their lives in that war.now the liberals are destroying monuments of the losing side. What’s next, book burning, witch trials, another Inquisition? Elect politicians that stand with you on this issue. There are no other options.