Donald Trump adds another marijuana opponent to his Cabinet

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Donald Trump adds another marijuana opponent to his Cabinet
By Christopher Ingraham November 29 at 7:55 PM

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) as his pick for Health and Human Services secretary, a position that could offer the anti-marijuana legislator more control over medical access to the drug.

Although federal regulation of illicit drugs rests primarily with the Justice Department, the HHS secretary holds some powers that could restrict how available marijuana is in states that have legalized it for recreational or medicinal use. For instance, drug policy observers say that the agency could penalize doctors or sue sellers who work with medical marijuana in those states, since the substance remains illegal under federal law.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/29/donald-trump-adds-another-marijuana-opponent-to-his-cabinet/

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1. K&R!

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2. At some point Democrats will realize the importance of this issue...

I expect Republicans to be stuck in the past. But the fact that Democrats aren't pushing forward on this issue and really trying to not only attract that voter base but more importantly just do what is right is beyond me.

It's just another of the multitude of examples of Democrats allowing Republicans to frame the debate. Yet another issue on which staking this stance (legalization or decriminalization) would lose them no voters that would have ever voted for them anyway but would gain them a great deal of support.

Especially seeing as to which way the country is moving on this, for them to continue to hunker down and wait until it's all but decided and all the legwork is done by the people not the party (see also gay marriage) is not just shortsighted and stupid but almost offensive.

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3. Totally agree

Why the democratic party isn't out front demanding Federal/national legalization of MJ I will never know.

Well except for all that campaign cash from Big Pharma, Beer manufacturers, etc, etc.

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4. Yeah, forgot about that too..

..I was more thinking their continued idiotic fixation on pandering to people who will never, ever vote for them anyway regardless of their stance on one specific issue. In this case that would be cops or "law and order" types. And completely ignoring the fact that almost every single time it's put on a ballot, it wins. Because...you know the people actually vote for it.

And like gay marriage they'll be happy to let everyone else do the hard work and heavy lifting and then will trot around taking victory laps once it's all done and legal.