Feinstein drops opposition to legal pot, giving legal marijuana a new ally

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: McClatchy

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a longtime opponent of legalizing recreational marijuana, now says the federal government should not interfere in California's legal marijuana market.

In comments to McClatchy Tuesday — in the middle of a 2018 campaign for her seat in a state that has settled into the legal pot market — the California Democrat said she was open to considering federal protection for state-legalized marijuana.

Feinstein's office said her views changed after meetings with constituents, particularly those with young children who have benefited from medical marijuana use.

"Federal law enforcement agents should not arrest Californians who are adhering to California law," said Feinstein, who faces a challenge from Kevin de Leon, who's attracting many liberals who see Feinstein as too moderate.

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article210212224.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. And LESS ammo from the progressives to use against her.

[msongs]

2. "open to consideration". not much change there, and agreed with pressure

from progressives. If I was still in CA I'd be voting for deLeon

[still_one]

3. What is pathetic about these so-called progressives 'hatred toward Feinstein, is they have no idea

that she is a liberal, and has been so all her public life when she was in the board of supervisors in San Francisco, and ran against Joe Alioto for Mayor.

They are either taking one or two issues they disagree with her, and ignoring the rest, or worse yet, they are drinking the Kool Aid that somebody is feeding them without knowing the facts

http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Dianne_Feinstein.htm

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. And I ignore the fakes, and lots of em. They either dont know any better or say what they say

for the purpose of hurting the Democratic Party and they are EVERYWHERE.

[CountAllVotes]

10. She ran against Moscone!

Remember this man. Mayor George Moscone ran against Dear Dianne and won!



He along with Supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by Dan White and THEN she became the mayor of San Francisco by default as she was the Chairwoman of the Board of Supervisors. Joseph L. Alioto was inaugurated on January 8, 1968, served a term, and was handily re-elected in 1971. Alioto was history at this time!

[USALiberal]

7. It was a stupid of her to fight it for so long. nt

[Voltaire2]

9. It is the pressure from voters that forced her

to change her position. Without those nasty progressives and their damn pressure she would have stayed the course on the war on some drugs.

[Eliot Rosewater]

14. Same ones who will force candidates on us who cant win in their House districts?

or Senate races?

anybody who calls Pelosi or Feinstein timid has no CLUE who these people are, or Kamala Harris...amazing SIGH

[Voltaire2]

15. Timid stay the course centrism has been a disaster

for our party.

[Jopin Klobe]

5. Feinstein drops opposition to legal pot ...

... in a clearly transparent and desperate attempt to save her "career" by trying to identify with young Progressives ...

[LanternWaste]

12. No doubt, that's the allegation and branding the opposition will paint this with.

No doubt, that's the allegation and thirty-second-attention-span-branding the opposition will paint this with... despite lacking any evidence to support it.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. I doubt she's trying to "identify with" young progressives,...

... probably making an attempt to represent the views of young progressives.

"Identifying" with young people, that's Trump fantasy land (I'm in better shape than most 20-year-olds)

[marble falls]

6. She's running for speaker! I want her sliding a little left.

[hatrack]

8. And it only took 8 states + DC legalizing recreational pot . . .

. . . and 29 states legalizing medicinal pot for her to "evolve".

From the article:

Feinstein has said that when she was a parole officer she saw too many criminals who "began with marijuana and went on to hard drugs."

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article210212224.html#storylink=cpy

Glad to hear she's coming around, but I would have been far more impressed if this were January 2017 (or January 2019) and she'd said the same thing.

[riversedge]

11. I am glad to have DH on board. Better late than never.