Congress Won't Give Jeff Sessions Money to Fight State Marijuana Laws (x-posted from LBN)

[Eugene]

LBN thread: Congress Denies Jeff Sessions Money to Fight Marijuana

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Source: Newsweek

Congress Won't Give Jeff Sessions Money to Fight State Marijuana Laws

BY GRAHAM LANKTREE ON 5/2/17 AT 2:27 PM

Congress won’t give Attorney General Jeff Sessions any money to fight a war on state laws to legalize marijuana—at least not in the new budget bill.

A bipartisan group of House Democrats and Republicans agreed Sunday to $1 trillion in government spending to avoid a shutdown and see them through to the end of September.

But while it also gave $1.5 billion more for border security and $12.5 billion for new military spending, there wasn’t any money for Sessions to go after states that have legalized medical marijuana and or where the recreational use of the drug is legal.

The move quashes potential plans to try to prevent 44 states, plus Washington D.C. and the territories of Guam and Puerto Rico, “from implementing their own laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.”

The move led pro-legalization advocacy groups and House representatives to urge Congress to amend federal law, removing cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act at a time when support for legalizing marijuana is at an all-time high.

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Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/congress-wont-give-jeff-sessions-money-fight-state-marijuana-laws-593188

[underpants]

1. Damn man, that's gonna harsh his buzz

[Lotusflower70]

2. Some good news for once

The tide has turned. There was major damage done with mandatory drug sentencing. It's time to move forward. Medical marijuana and even recreational (though I personally don't partake) have their uses. I don't know if any of you watch the Viceland channel but there are several shows that demonstrate that there are more positives than negatives with marijuana. The war on drugs was an epic failure. Sessions wants to pursue marijuana law in order to fill up for profit prisons, nothing more than that.

[skylucy]

3. Cool.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. Kick and Rec.

Hopefully, this time ALL the members of the Dem. leadership in the house voted for inclusion of Rohrbacher-Farr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohrabacher%E2%80%93Farr_amendment