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CountAllVotes

(20,866 posts)
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 08:04 PM Feb 2017

Trump might be coming for your weed

Donald Trump says he has never smoked pot — and apparently he’s not a fan of people who do.

Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer, suggested on Thursday that the Trump administration could crack down on the 8 states that have legalized marijuana for recreational use. Spicer said the Justice Dept. would be “further looking into” the question of whether to enforce federal anti-marijuana laws more aggressively, and went on to say, “I do believe that you’ll see greater enforcement of it.”

That would be an abrupt change from the federal policies of the last several years, and a big setback for the burgeoning legal marijuana industry. Marijuana is classified as a Schedule 1 controlled substance, which means federal law prohibits its use. But after Colorado and Washington declared recreational pot legal in 2012, President Obama famously said, “we’ve got bigger fish to fry,” indicating that his administration would look the other way instead of enforcing the federal law, which preempts state law.

Weed enthusiasts hoped Trump would be just as chill. In 2015, Trump said the question of legalizing pot should be a “state issue, state-by-state,” which, essentially it has been. A January report from a publication called Marijuana Business Daily concluded that “we will see a continuation of some form of the status quo.”


More here: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-might-be-coming-for-your-weed-231515133.html

Oh goodie! Back to this old sh*t again! So much for States' rights, etc. etc.



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Trump might be coming for your weed (Original Post) CountAllVotes Feb 2017 OP
Yeah but bathrooms ARE states rights. underpants Feb 2017 #1
got that, ya dumb pot smoking rednecks that voted for him... dhill926 Feb 2017 #2
They voted for Trump, now they can go to jail for him. dubyadiprecession Feb 2017 #8
And, in other news... trc Feb 2017 #3
Spicer whining about "states rights" MFM008 Feb 2017 #4
'This aggression will not stand, man' C_U_L8R Feb 2017 #5
States rights is just GOP code words for elmac Feb 2017 #6
That would turn a few small L libertarians. ret5hd Feb 2017 #7
Looks like we're going to have to build more prisons since Trump is making American great again world wide wally Feb 2017 #9
 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
6. States rights is just GOP code words for
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 08:25 PM
Feb 2017

let the states decide as long as corporations are OK with it.

world wide wally

(21,738 posts)
9. Looks like we're going to have to build more prisons since Trump is making American great again
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 03:20 AM
Feb 2017

can we have mass incarceration for the entire GOP?

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