In an interview with conservative radio show host Hugh Hewitt, Attorney General Jeff Sessions reiterated his position against marijuana, his commitment to enforcing its prohibition, and expressed an openness to use RICO suits against businesses that handle the plant.
Earlier this year, Cully Stimson of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank that has a tremendous amount of influence within the leadership of the Republican Party, penned an 11-point plan advising the Justice Department on how to crack down on the states, businesses, patients, and consumers of marijuana. So far, Sessions has followed the first 4 points and the 9th is the implementation of RICO suits.
Just because the Justice Department has yet to make overt policy changes or action in the first 9 months of the administration, it certainly does not mean that it is not coming. You can see it in the words of the Sessions himself. We have already seen them issue new guidelines to rev up charges against those suspected of drug-related crimes, pursue maximum sentences for those charges, and an escalation in the department’s ability to utilize civil asset forfeiture to deprive those charged of their possessions.
Below is the transcript of the exchange (emphasis added):
HH: But one prosecution that invokes a supremacy clause against one large dope manufacturing concern, and follows the money as it normally would in any drug operation and seizes it, would shut, would chill all of this. But I haven’t seen on in nine months, yet. Is one coming?
JS: Really analyze all those cases, and I can’t comment on the existence of an investigation at this time, Hugh, you know that, so, but I hear you. You’re making a suggestion. I hear it.
HH: I’m lobbying.
JS: (laughing) You’re lobbying.
The House just passed a party line Republican budget. Is this when the bicameral conference committee meets before the Senate votes on extending the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment?
For now, Sessions cracking down on mmj is protected by the R&B amendment until Dec 8th, where it will expire on Dec 8th if not extended by the bicameral committee. Send a letter to your Congressman here (link below) to extend the Rohrabacher Blumenauer amendment and defend states rights over what a majority of Americans want; legalized medical and recreational marijuana; this is now including Republicans according to the latest Gallup poll;
http://norml.org/action-center/item/federal-protect-lawful-medical-marijuana-programs?link_id=1&can_id=3a827e29fde3eb45b0d2ab51cd5e8781&source=email-act-medical-marijuana-on-the-line-2&email_referrer=&email_subject=act-medical-marijuana-on-the-line
So Justin, whose on the Bicameral Conference Committee? Do we know yet?
That was the budget, not the appropriations bill. Things are very much in the air on the approps side of things and a CR is possible. No idea who is on that yet.
Thanks Justin.
The harder the battle the sweeter the victory.
Marijuana should be legal and kept that way. Enough is enough with Session and his ilk. Too many people are dying in this country because of this administration and it has got to stop. Help keep people alive and FREE THE CANNABIS PLANT. IT IS A PLANT. A PLANT!!!!!
I got off opiods because of medical marijuana, two of my Doctors suggested I do this for my health. I have had kidney failure. Medical Marajuana is much better for my body than chemicals and it is healthier, you can’t overdose. We must decide this issue by state,but it should be legal in all states.
Good for you Sandra!
If you havn’t already, click on the ACT tab and copy your story to your representatives and Senators. We can personalize our message when we click on the links!
Use your time to stop harder drugs that are being pushed by doctors and thugs that are killing people of all ages free proabition on Marijuana that actually helps cure without addiction.
Hi all. I am only briefly commenting now because I am so angry at this to express myself in full and also because I wanted this comment to be noticed. I will be back on later to comment further.
He knows that one prosecution RICO is NOT going to shut all this down, esp. with the governors in the West ignorning any crackdown order.
This administration is a nightmare. Every single day I wake up, I can’t even hardly watch the news for fear Sessions announces a crackdown, starts his abuse to attack and DESTROY all the work we have done.
He cannot completely stop us, you can’t kill our passion and our dreams. A total shutdown, and marijuana will be back in 8 or so years.
Some of us can’t wait this long. I am too pained, anxious, enraged right now to comment further, but I will be back later. Sorry it has been so long. Maybe when weed is more availiable, it will help me with my alcohol problem.
Met an amazing women in a recent rehab stint.
She is very intelligent and she loves her marijuana.
I will never stop fighting for legalization and using marijuana. No matter how many arrests, Jeff Sessions and the alt-right and their moralist stink, no matter ANY law.
If Jeff Sessions and the Feds see this, they can come and get me right now.
Back on later. Sorry it has been so long, we are still fighting here in MI for next year, but, sadly, I am skeptical.
More later. Stay strong, folks, the resistance MUST continue.
Your ally, brother, and comrade
Matt
Oh, one last thing I left out.
Another reason he can NEVER fully stop us is because a crackdown will HUGELY increase the black market. People will be so enraged with him that speakeasy shops will pop up over and over and over again, the old wack-a-mole game for Sessions and the police.
Fear not, folks. In the end, legalization will have the last laugh.
Even Sessions knows this. Trust me. He knows any crackdown is ultimately going to be temp. and useless.
Back later.
M
@ Matt
I agree alot of this is a dog and pony show in hopes that something can come out of it .
They continue to sight DUI arrests are up since legal action , how ever what is up enforcement . Back the day in my personal experience there was at least 3 times I was pulled over with smoke rolling out of the window and never once got sighted for Cannabis , how ever I did get the traffic tickets .
I’m not advocating driving and use here ok I’m putting data out here for purposes of use to see the truth ..
It’s no different then meeting a quota of tickets issued . And since they never tracked Cannabis DUI there is no base line to indicate a significant increase . It’s all fabrication ..
And as for there notions of the FDA opposed legalisation that’s false as well .
The FDA has not said either way because they can’t because they would have disclose there data of testing .. and if they said it proved harmful and it later got dismissed from scheduling there would be some pretty upset investors .. FDA is not saying a word right now .
Gilbert, stop. Stop it right now.
@ Julian
Transprancy ! I’m just here to be a positive part of the movement and to help bring true facts of repasentation by personal experiences in life , my goal here is to provide support to end prohibition of Cannabis nothing else Julian I’m not here to be anyone’s friend or enemy I have no argument for you or anyone else my mission is the same as the rest here and that is to bring supporting information to a group that I thought would find it helpful in the fight of Cannabis prohibition. Im losing my respect for you Julian as I kinda thought you had good mind and choose your words to reflect a path of intelligence of a higher source how ever as in the past you would not be the first human to fall from Grace !!
@ Julian
Instead of being a tyrant Julian how about trying to bring a dialogue of communication that is beneficial to the mind ? I’m standing by awaiting for a good quality of effort towards a dignified like wise mind set of communication from adults. feed me intelligence!!
Lol… the guy who defends Trump… and by that measure Sessions… says he’s trying to find intelligence… Good luck with that Gilbert. If its of any consolation I meant to post “stop” after one of your white privilege rants.
But your defense of Trump is a defense of Sessions, you know that right? You know its Trump who is ramping up a drug war to kill Americans for his own profit? Why dont you read up on Mueller’s indictment of Manafort and then ask yourself if your beloved administration is not treasonous? Tell Sessions “Run, Forest!”
As the song Mississippi Kid goes, “Cuz in Alabama you can run but you sho caint hide.” If you don’t believe me just wait for it. Our courts can’t deny this much evidence of conspiracy against the United States.
And so long as you keep posting here without clicking on the Act tab, typing in your information and writing your Congressman thats all youre doing; running away from yourself. Which you can’t do. It doesn’t matter if we agree on that or not, it’s just a fact of life.
So if you would like to continue an “intelligent dialogue” free from telling you to “F off,” then post something useful like a response letter from your Congressman from one of the many links to pending marijuana reform legislation on the Act tab of this webpage. It will make you feel good. And you’ll feel empowered and intelligent, if thats what you seek.
@julian
Your white privilege comment kinda spells you out to a racist individual , and you bribery tactics to stop the personal attacks tells you your a hypocrite , I thought we was on the same side on the fight of prohibition ? How ever you and Mark have decided to throw racist insults and threats of personal attacks unless I do what you want ? I’m I correct if so then it’s no wonder the battle for the end of Cannabis prohibition stalls like a clogged toliet full of crap .
I don’t see you support any thing , at least I support my country and the leader as a individual with freedom and liberty , I get choose my own belief’s with freedom obviously you don’t respect other individual freedoms you choose to be hateful and disrespectful to individual freedoms so don’t go around preaching about the leaders in place while thinking your actually doing a better job , because I can roll back several posts of your racist insults and now your bribery of threats unless I do it your way . Those that cry racist usually end up being the true racist !! No one tells me what do to how to vote or how to live especially cowards like you Julian .
I choose how to fight this prohibition my way how I see fit and I for Suresh don’t see you as any type of a leader to lead a battle , people like you get people hurt so in no way I’m I following you to the gates of your he’ll go by your self.
I know my own truth I own it every day in every way I find my own respect , while I sit by watch individuals like you disrespect others for there freedom..
So I take that as a “no,” you’re not going to grow some balls, click on the ACT tab or do anything useful to protect our freedom besides cry about how racially abused you are by my calling out your white privilege comments on a previous post?
Sigh… well then dear Gilbert this is where we part ways in dialogue. For as long as you use this blog to lure people into distracting and unproductive arguments about race without adding anything substantive about marijuana policy or at bare minimum contacting your Congressman on one of the several prescripted letters provided on this webpage than you are part of the problem, not the solution. And we have too much at stake to afford the distraction.
If you voted for Trump this is what you voted for. Sessions was his pick. Pense was his pick. Both avid cannabis haters. I would took that regurgitated Clinton over this crap anyday. These guys are gonna set us back 20 years. I will be dead before I see cannabis legal in my state. Thanks a lot Trump trolls.
While I do agree with you, I don’t think that comment will do much good on Norml. You might try posting that on Fox News if you want Trump voters to read it, but don’t be surprised if you get barbecued in the flames they will hurl at you. I know this from personal experience.
You are welcome libbie! Thanks for making it possible to set up Trump’s win by being sleazy liars in cahoots with the fakestream media, selling out America (uranium to Russia) and playing identity politics. As your Islam-loving hero said, elections have consequences!
Trump troll spouting Bullshit. Anyone surprised? Not me.
Got some bad news for ya: the worst fakestream media in this country is called Fox News. Fox should just change its name to GOP news. Joseph Goebbels would be proud.
I can rarely venture over to that channel without getting nauseated, but I suspect there will be almost no coverage of the Manafort indictment. They must keep their viewers (sheep) as ignorant as possible.
“Dr.” Goebbels was reportedly a multi-pak-a-day nicotine combustion $igarette addict.
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On May 1, 1945, a day after $hitler poked the $hootgun up his mouth cavity and $prayed brains all over the Fuehrerbunker, First Lady Of The Third Reich Magda Goebbels had all six (6) children put down with cyanide candy (before she and Joseph took theirs), humanely explaining that if they had lived they would have been persecuted all their lives for what their daddy had done.
Goebbels, like Hitler, took the coward’s way out. After Adolf had caused so much death and misery, he was too much of a coward to face the Soviet army that closed in on his bunker. He knew that they had some serious payback to dish.
I am not digging this interview at all. Here’s the snippet:
“Hugh, you know that, so, but I hear you. You’re making a suggestion. I hear it.
HH: I’m lobbying.
JS: (laughing) You’re lobbying.”
Did Jeff Sessions just take it as a suggestion, like Hewitt is suggesting to Sessions to crack down on cannabis?
This little snippet is the camel’s nose in the tent:
“And we will do our best to enforce the laws as we’re required to do so.”
I want to know the “by whom” in that statement–best to enforce the laws as required to do so “by whom.” [quotes for emphasis]
This latest poll shows more Americans are in favor of legalization. The opposite of that is fewer Americans support a crackdown.
It’s time to get individual electors and lobby groups to apply pressure to candidates to support this new legislation to end federal prohibition. I tried to find a list of them but just came up with this link.
https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/electors.html
I’m thinking a lot of the members of Congress have presidential aspirations. If the electors are pro-legalization and indicate they prefer legalization candidates, then the guillotine is set for prohibitionists or neutral politicians to cut off the funding of cannabis prohibition.
You prohibitionists just need to get out of the way. Cannabis is making a lot of jobs and filling the public coffers that the federal government can’t come up with if they crack down and the jobs and all that money is gone from the legal economy. Not only are all those jobs and that money for local and state government gone, but it’s going to cost money for the criminal justice system to carry it out.
They just need to get legalization done. Wall $treet love$ legalization!
Cannabis will be traded in U.S. dollars on the international commodity markets. We will follow the money internationally to make sure it’s not going to people who want to kill us.
The only reason why AG Sessions is so anti-marijuana is because he wants to lock more people up and he has stocks in the private prison industry; that alone should be a conflict of interest but apparently with this administration it is not, and that is bullshit! Marijuana has NEVER killed anyone, EVER! Yet, alcohol has and so has prescription drugs; but I am sure he could care less about those facts as he sips his cocktails and takes his pills; hypocrisy at it’s finest. In fact, people who are now addicted to LEGAL drugs (prescriptions; opioids) are using marijuana to STOP their addictions and to still HELP them with their pain! AG Sessions you don’t know what you are talking about, you only want to line your pockets by keeping a plant illegal and it’s crap. Reefer madness isn’t real…come on, get educated and STOP your insane agenda! Seriously!
I have Bad Anxiety, MJ does help me calm me down . Rather Legal or unlegal. I shall continue my as I like to call it Medicine….
Our voice must be heard… I know how I felt the first time I put my name, e-mail, address and sometimes phone number into a petition and /or letter to a Congressman; trust me… they aren’t cops! They don’t care enough to prosecute only impute… who actually votes and which votes count? Congressman are more afraid of us than we are of them… kinda like rattlesnakes…
On that regaurd, no matter whether you are Democrat or Republican, if you like freedom and Democracy, here is a petition to the apparently split Supreme Court over ending gerrymandering;
http://go.traindemocrats.org/page/s/end-gerrymandering?source=MS_EM_PET_2017.10.26_B3_end-gerrymandering_X__F1_S1_C1__all-ac
If you believe in freedom, lets sign this link!
@ Julian
I try not to put my name anywhere near this protest of prohibition of Cannabis, it seems certain individuals are always looking over me looking for that connection to Cannabis as if it’s Wich hunt, even though they tell me it’s not a Wich hunt .
I have called and spoken to a few different groups in the country about there view and actions towards Cannabis , the boys club of America , the church of Scientology that was a rough one as I battled every one of there misconception they got pissed ..
A few groups in eastern United States , where ever I find an even where they lambasted Cannabis I try to call them out on it the best I can ..
Gilbert,
You’re about as useless as tits on a boar…
If you do mot click on the Act tab and contact your Congressman you have no use here on this website but to distract those of us hard at work trying to free the weed for those in need. You are a shallow troll… working in the opposite direction of legalization.
“The Church of Scientology?” Were writing letters to Congress and this fucknut wants to argue with religious cults? Gilbert, you fucking gumba. Go waste the time of Tom Cruise and leave the grown up here alone to legalize marijuana.
@ mark @ Julian
If your writing Congress is like any of the writing you do here I’m pretty you’re the joke of the morning round table meetings ..
You both pretend to actually believe you are doing something productive in the fight of prohibition ? You’re worse then fake news a bunch of pretend freedom fighters sitting around riding of the backs of what other groups have already done . You have provided nothing here not one single peice of data towards the end of prohibition all you do is call people names act like school children on a computer typing insults about the president or individuals in Congress , I hire a complete high school class to do what you guys are doing for a hundred bucks and maybe a video game ..
You don’t go after the base root of the cause you dont go out and fight the pockets of resistance because yeh your to busy pretending to write Congress like your really some vocal point here ? You seemingly don’t understand your little tiny letter is nothing compared to a shutdown of a complete organization so while you pantyhose wearing video gaming nerds write your little pathetic letters individuals as myself will do the real fighting for you cowards that hide behind letters and words . I have yet to see any significant amount of changes to prohibition due to any action of group all I see is reporting of what others have done . I’m the real freedom fighter the rebel that fights while cowards waste there time with verbal insults . I had my hesitation about what NORMAL is actually providing for years and since I finally made a step to actually put my feet in the water here I find it very radioactive with bigotry , racist remarks , and false information , lies and propaganda . If you Julian and Mark are the embodiment of this organization I clearly I’m in the midst of the lowest degradable individuals on the planet .. so go write you punny paper ok, I have an organization to bring down you cowards ..
I have lobbied my state representatives for years to help pass the Compassionate Use Act here in Texas and continue to do so. We just managed to get the state legislature to open a commission to study marijuana legalization through the Chair of the Criminal Jurisprudence Committee Joe Moody, D-El Paso.
Mark has gathered signatures to pass marijuana reform legislation in his own state.
We have marched, we have citizen lobbied, we gathered petition signatures either for voter initiatives or to get marijuana reformists on the ballot.
I’ve personally been to lobby my state capitol suit and tie so many times to reform marijuana law I have to assure new staff members that I’m not a registered lobbyist, just a voting constituent.
Tell me, Gilbert, what will you do to reform marijuana law?
@ Gilbert,
My goal on this NORML blog, where you and your kind are concerned, is to expose you for the alt-right Trump propagandists that you clearly are.
I say, you are attempting to undermine our cause: marijuana legalization.
You are doing what all the other Trump supporters do on this blog, which is to attempt to extort the marijuana legalization movement into silence regarding Trump’s white nationalist fascism, on the threat of withholding your support for marijuana legalization.
Well, you know what? We’re not going to give Trump or Sessions a goddamn thing. Fuck those Sick Fuck Nazis, and anyone who supports them.
We reject Trump. And we will not be extorted by you.
If that changes your degree of support for marijuana legalization, that only proves you were only feigning support the whole time! So who needs you, anyway? Having a little snit fit? Fine, then take your ball and go home.
Jeffery Sessions, LAZY dumb ass refuses to do his job.
When is Crooked Hillary Felony Clinton going to PRISON?
Jeff Sessions need to jail the low hanging fruit ASAP.
Jeff Sessions is a lazy worthless Attorney General, he is a JOKE.
@ Dave beall,
Shut the fuck up with your Hillary horseshit. Sessions sucks because he is a perjurer, a racist Nazi, and a Trump supporter. Trump can and will go to hell, obviously.
But this has nothing to do with Hillary, you Trump nut licking propagandist.
Trump and Hillary have both demonstrated less trustworthiness than I would expect out of a business partner.
Meanwhile, your immediate attacks for an alternate perception clearly identify you as a an asshole.
@ B,
You alt-right nut-jobs are truly obsessed with Hillary to an unhealthy degree.
It is a false equivalence to compare Trump with Hillary, as the Mueller indictments illustrate.
By “business” you mean corrupt corporate America? That’s a very low bar. Not well known for high ethical standards!
That’s really SAD, Dave Beall, that you would try to drag Hillary back into the spotlight. She’s old history, Dave, though you obviously want to trumpet her name again to try to take the heat off Drumpf. Sorry, he’s prez, and this is HIS scandal. Your attempt to bring Hillary back into the conversation just tells me that you’re worried about Drumpf’s future. And you should be.
I got yer “supremacy clause”, cracker. It’s called the “Tenth Amendment”. “Enumerated powers”. Never mind that “Schedule I Cannabis” is a damned lie on its face…
I wouldn’t worry about the supremacy clause stopping state legalization anymore. Barbuto v. Advantage Sales & Marketing in the Supreme Justice Court of Massachusetts already shot that down a few months ago in a case awarding the plaintiff who sued because she was fired for off the job medical marijuana consumption. I’m still fascinated that the judges cited their ruling off of legislatively enacted marijuana reform when all states thus far began with voter initiated language. The amended delays of legalization initiatives being pushed by prohibitionists are being considered legislatively enacted legalization by federal judges. It’s like the dog that barks at his own reflection to lose the steak in his mouth. Greed is so stupid it steals from itself.
As for the 10th amendment, I’m anxious to see if that plays out in the Washington v. Sessions case. The plaintiffs have until the 3rd of November to block a Motion to Dismiss from Sessions. I believe the 1st, 4th and 10th amendments can award the injunction on marijuana prohibition under the CSAct. But interestingly enough, the plaintiff’s lawyers for 11-year-old Alex Bortelli are persuing the 1st, 4th and 14th amendments to achieve the injunction:
https://www.marijuanaventure.com/washington-vs-sessions/
This strategy makes sense since Alexis has to incriminate herself to comply with existing law which is unconstitutional. This is similar to how Timothy Leary overturned marijuana prohibition in 1969 in Leary v. U.S.
I will also add that I kind of hope he does crack down on it, or more correctly I hope he tries. It won’t actually achieve anything, and it will make many on the fence Senators and Representatives take a side. Since they have to know their electorate is for legalization by now, I think his crackdown would be a net gain for us.
To Mr.Sessions Are you still stuck in the Macarthy era? Wake the hell up you “dreamer” We are not going to put up with you much longer, you are just too stupid!!! Period. Resign now…. from a republican potsmoker w/blood cancer screw you come for mine and you will regret it, You then become what i took an oath to defend this country from, an over bearing fool looking for pain. I’ll deliver. All enemies foreign or domestic. All i see in you is a domestic threat to my health. Get off it fool!!!end schedule one now.!!!!!!!!!!!!
With more than half of states recognizing MMJ Legislators now have an obligation to their constituents to legalize medical marijuana. It is reprehensible that marijuana remains a Schedule I substance.
I met 11-year-old Alexis Bortelli (who was then only 9?) at the 2015 Southwest Cannabis Conference and Expo in Fort Worth, TX. It was a quick speech and appearance as she is prohibited from taking her cannabis outside of her Colorado refuge. She is currently more than 360 days seizure free.
I knew right away from listening to her speak that this girl has the spirit to end marijuana prohibition. We could feel the vibe in the room. Her confidence and truth are contageous. NFL superbowl winner Marvin Washington was there and look what that turned into? There exists the possibility that this Washington v. Sessions case could end marijuana prohibition as we know it next week and it all started from a retired Superbowl athlete meeting a 9-year-old marijuana activists with epilepsy from Texas.
What I would give to be a fly on the wall of that courtroom! Alas, the revolution will not be televised. But we can follow it here:
https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/22047318/Washington_et_al_v_Sessions_et_al
It’s sad and tragic that some of our politicians remain willfully ignorant of cases such as hers. It wouldn’t be the first time a child educated her elders.
It is sad, Bud, but if you ever met Alexis Bortell you could not help but feel proud. I’m tokin down some Huck Flow trying to stay calm for Friday’s decision on Washington v. Sessions. I even contacted her attorney to connect campaign contributions from Sessions to lethal prescriptions for epilepsy Alexis took previously.
Of course I’ll keep you posted on the latest blog.
http://www.thebestdemocracymoneycanbuy.com
https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/03/01/jeff-sessions-may-hate-cannabis-but-he-sure-loves-big-tobacco/
https://youtu.be/udWSsHJBI6g
Or try
http://youtu.be/sqRlKHg0U_k
The link above is from the latest episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, who happens to be a big doner on the NORML advisory board.
Bill, you and Joy were entertaining and it’s fair to say when “they go low the Dems should go lower” but not stupider!
You just did a whole show trying to convince Woody Harelson to start smoking weed again (almost got him too).
http://youtu.be/bA-0FP3JcJs
You then conmended your “passionate panel” talking about the opioid crisis… talking about solutions… and one person on the panel, Woodruff, finally mentions the word “marijuana” at least to suggest we should be going after legal opioids, not marijuana… and yet throughout the entire show NO one mentions the Journal of the American Medical Association study showing a %37 reduction in opioid addiction and suicide in state with legal medical or recreational marijuana?!!!
Don’t get me wrong, who doesn’t want to hear Joy Behar say she “wouldn’t fuck Bill O’rielly for $37 million dollars”? But to dumb down the conversation with “They’re (audience/public) are not responsive to all that technical tall talk”? C’mon Bill?! Can’t we go low without going stupid? There’s an opioid crisis out there, Trump is making it worse and addicted towns are voting Republican! If we don’t tell the truth about why whole plant marijuana, its extracts and kratom are all still on schedule 1… to sell oxycontin and depakote… there won’t be a low to lower down to… just the abyssmal grave of opioid addiction and suicide.
Cite your solutions!!!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/29019782/
EVERY action can
(and usually does)
produce an OPPOSITE reaction…
the more they ‘crack down’,
the more ACTIVISTS they produce…
the more they ‘crack down’,
the higher the price of pot rises,
and the more PROFITABLE it becomes…
therefore, more people will get involved with selling it…
DECADES after alcohol prohibition ended,
they still haven’t learned it’s lessons…
THIS comment goes DIRECTLY TO JEFF SESSIONS;
if you REALLY want to ‘enforce the law’, ; PLEASE enforce this one;
“THE UNITED STATES,
WILL PRINT,
AND MINT,
IT’S OWN MONEY”.
THEREFORE, the “FEDERAL RESERVE” is ILLEGAL, under the HIGHEST LAW of the LAND;
which is;
THE CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/28/nasa-colombia-cauca-valley-battle-mother-land#comment-107500962
The price of marijuana from the south is dropping and California hasnt even fully opened their recreational market yet. It would appear as if demand for cocaine is decreasing as cartels are concentrating on poppy production in tropical climates.
Colombia’s tropical growing climate is a microcosm of traditional drug war racism. White Europeans pushed indigenous people into the mountains and forced black people to work the cane fields. “Post” Colombia’s 50 year civil war lies the deception that the war is over, as big sugar and big pharma move into indigenous territories once controlled by armed FARC rebels.
The article above has some powerful reporting in it:
“..the Cxhab Wala Kiwe (Nasa people) were absorbed in simply saving our community from war and preventing paramilitary groups from recruiting our children,” said Capaz, who is also a senior member of the indigenous guard. “Now there is no war, we can focus more on the liberation of Mother Earth. Extractive industries and monocultures are contrary to our belief system. People here are aware of what is going on elsewhere in the world. We know how the climate is changing. We know about contamination of the land. We don’t want that.”
“Agricultural monoculture is tearing at the very fabric of sustained human coexistence with our living planet.”
-David Attenborough
The takeaway is clearly “grow our own legal variety garden.”
Will that be the future of legal marijuana? Will we make the same mistakes of deforestation and monoculture by purchasing mj from Canada where marijuana supplies are low?
Growing our own local supplies of cannabis in rotation with fruits and vegetables and using carbon trapping hemp products like hemp crete not only makes good economic sense, it may be the key to our continued coexistence on earth as a species.
Well, I voted for Trump and support our President. However, if the administration decides to pursue a completely unscientific witch hunt of one of the most useful and least harmful medicines ever known to man, I and many who voted for Trump will have no choice but to vote for a candidate that is not in the pocket of the Pharma Cartel.
http://www.norml.org/congressional-scorecard
Use it often. Were vetting candidates now. Call snd ask candidates what their campaign marijuana policy is. State and federal Congress is more important to reform than the President.
With that said, unless a candidate rejects PAC money such as Beto Orourke in Texas, ALL politicians are in the “pockets” of Big Pharma, just some more than others.
The false equivalency between Hillary and Trump needs to stop. She had a tricky schedule 2 policy but it should have been obvious Trump was a drug warrior when he began his campaign blaming Mexicans for our corrupt dug policy like Anslinger did when he started prohibition. Sessions endorsement of Trump in Feb 2016 was a red flag.
Evidence Jeff Sessions lied under oath;
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/us/politics/trump-jeff-sessions-russia.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
@Jim Davis: You are so typical of Trump voters. Wanting your cake and eating it too. Let me break it down for you. You and all the other despicables (deplorable is too nice a word) support an illiberal fascist psychopathic grifter who by the way praised Filipino’s President Duterte’s murderous drug war. Yes you did. Who do you think you are kidding? You and your fellow Trump supporters are complicit in unleashing a new deadly war against cannabis and Sessions is doing your dirty work. Don’t try to run. You own this. You inflicted this travesty upon this country. Blood is on your hands.