Governors to Trump: Chill Out on the Weed

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/28/governors-to-trump-chill-out-on-the-weed.html

Governors to Trump: Chill Out on the Weed
When it comes to marijuana policy, Republican governors are stuck between a rock and a green place.
Matt Laslo
02.28.17 1:03 AM ET

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The GOP used to be the state’s rights party. Just a few months ago, even the idea of federal intrusion on a legal business owner would have been anathema. Not anymore.

It seems Republican governors are bracing for the new reality of having Trump in White House—even his fellow party members don’t know how he’ll yield the vast federal powers now at his disposal.

As the Trump administration picks its battles, some Republican governors don’t love that the new attorney general, Jeff Sessions, seems to oppose their local voters who want looser, not more stringent, pot policy, but they seem to be at a loss for words.

“I suppose we just have to see how it rolls out, no pun intended,” Gov. Brian Sandoval (R-NV) quipped to The Daily Beast. “So let’s put this a different way, I want to see the details to what the administration is talking about.”

The former federal judge added, “The more important question will be what the Department of Justice does.”

That’s the question hanging over the cannabis industry head. And because Congress has failed to address the discrepancy, except for passing a bill that prohibits federal forces from going after medicinal marijuana dealers, federal policy remains at opposition to what’s happening in red and blue states alike, which is why Sandoval said the Feds seem to have broad discretion.

“You’ve got a 10th Amendment argument but you’ve got a supremacy clause question,” Sandoval said. “And then I don’t know how you distinguish between medical and recreational, at least based on a federal law enforcement perspective, at least as the law is written now.”

But then there’s the whole money issue. States are now making money by taxing weed.

“No absolutely, there’s no doubt,” Sandoval said, who expects to send his education department about $30 million a year from weed money. “It is extra money. But it is. And it’s important to me to continue the quality of education. And you know that’s something they’ve done in Colorado, something they’ve done in Washington, something they’ve done in Oregon.”

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[gordianot]

1. Has Sessions started to call the Republican Governors "boy" yet?

I would bet Uncle Jeffery Beauregard has thought about it and has a list of people he thinks of in those terms.

[Raster]

2. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, III...

...AmericaKKKa's EVIL KKKeebler Elf.