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Related: About this forumTrump might be coming for your weed
Donald Trump says he has never smoked pot and apparently hes not a fan of people who do.
Trumps 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 youll 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, weve 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
Looks like we're going to have to build more prisons since Trump is making American great again
world wide wally
Feb 2017
#9
underpants
(186,668 posts)1. Yeah but bathrooms ARE states rights.
dhill926
(16,953 posts)2. got that, ya dumb pot smoking rednecks that voted for him...
dubyadiprecession
(6,342 posts)8. They voted for Trump, now they can go to jail for him.
Bunch of dumbshits!
trc
(825 posts)3. And, in other news...
Jeff Sessions Reverses Obama-Era Policy That Curtailed DOJs Private Prison Use. I am sure it is all coincidental...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/doj-private-prisons-sessions_us_58af529ce4b0a8a9b780669a?
MFM008
(20,000 posts)4. Spicer whining about "states rights"
wwwwwwwhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
idiot.
C_U_L8R
(45,694 posts)5. 'This aggression will not stand, man'
elmac
(4,642 posts)6. States rights is just GOP code words for
let the states decide as long as corporations are OK with it.
ret5hd
(21,320 posts)7. That would turn a few small L libertarians.
world wide wally
(21,830 posts)9. Looks like we're going to have to build more prisons since Trump is making American great again
can we have mass incarceration for the entire GOP?