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Thursday, December 14th, 2017

Sessions must stop telling lies about marijuana

Author:     Ryan Jennemann
Source:     Raw Story/Newsweek
Publication Date:     13 DEC 2017 AT 09:06 ET
Link: Sessions must stop telling lies about marijuana
Stephan:   Jeff Sessions, in my view, never should have been appointed, let alone confirmed, as Attorney General. Anyone who knows anything of his history knows he is an unreconstructed Confederate from another century. Worse yet he is corrupt, and a perjurer. Personally, having met him a couple of times, I think he is also a moron. But there he is. His obsession against marijuana is of a piece with his other views, which is to say it is not fact based, but purely ideological, with a heavy spice of theological. Unfortunately, in the face of the current legal, and corporately created opioid crisis that afflicts America, particularly rural America, that is exactly not what is needed. Here is the latest.

Republican Attorney General Jeff Sessions

Congress just gave the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment, which bars the Department of Justice from using federal funds to prosecute people buying or selling medical marijuana in states that have legalized it, a temporary reprieve until Dec. 22.

However, as Rep. Earl Blumenauer, (D-Ore.) stated, “Two weeks is not enough certainty,” especially when you are talking about patients’ well-being and a North American cannabis marketplace largely made up of small business owners and their employees that is expected to grow 33 percent to nearly $10 billion in 2017 and create tens of thousands of new jobs in the New Year.A recent Gallup poll revealed support for legalizing marijuana is the highest it’s been since the question was first asked in the US in 1969. The poll showed a four-point uptick from a year ago with 64 percent of Americans supporting legalizing marijuana for medical and adult use.In addition to Democrats or independents supporting legalization, Republicans for the first time backed fully legalizing cannabis, a plant found to be far less harmful than alcohol […]

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1 Comment

  1. nexus5th on Thursday, December 14, 2017 at 9:21 am

    Fortunately, those who think like Sessions are aging, and out future leaders decisions will begin to reflect policy based more on objective science rather than on religious ideology. This is what being “progressive” is all about.