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Jeff Sessions Just Confirmed He’s Going After States With Legalized Marijuana, Claims It Causes “Violence”

While Trump may claim he’s for state’s rights, Attorney General Jeff Sessions just pissed on the opinions of about 71% of Americans who do not believe the federal government should attempt to ram federal laws down the throats of states where voters have legalized marijuana.

After Press Secretary Sean Spicer essentially warned everyone last week that the Trump administration plans to crack down on states with recreational marijuana laws, AG Sessions backed that up on Monday with some bizarre statements that prove the guy actually believes Reefer Madness was a documentary.

Via Politico:

“Most of you probably know I don’t think America is going to be a better place when more people of all ages and particularly young people start smoking pot,” Sessions said during an exchange with reporters at the Justice Department. “I believe it’s an unhealthy practice and current levels of THC in marijuana are very high compared to what they were a few years ago.”

“We’re seeing real violence around that,” Sessions said. “Experts are telling me there’s more violence around marijuana than one would think and there’s big money involved.”



If there is any “violence” around marijuana, it’s due entirely to the black market created by the phony drug war, not the actual drug itself, as pointed out by chairman of the drug policy reform group Marijuana Majority Tom Angell:

By talking about marijuana and violence, the attorney general is inadvertently articulating the strongest argument that exists for legalization, which is that it allows regulated markets in a way that prohibition does not.

Prohibition keeps drug cartels in business and needlessly puts thousands of Americans behind bars.

But then again, that must be why Sessions also reversed the DOJ plan to phase out the for-profit prisons last week; they’re going to need somewhere to put all those non-violent drug offenders once the federal crackdown on a benign plant legalized in over half the country begins.

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Melissa Dykes
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One Reply to “Jeff Sessions Just Confirmed He’s Going After States With Legalized Marijuana, Claims It Causes “Violence”

  1. Raise your hand if you got loaded before you went to see Reefer Madness.
    I haven’t smoked any pot in more years than I care to recall, and my views have changed over the years (I won’t say which way or how much). I will say I never became violent or aggressive when under the influence nor did any of the multiple hundreds of people I knew. No one who was under only the influence of pot alone ever threatened me, let alone got violent towards me. I’ve never seen a user get aggressive or violent over not having any, either. On the other hand, I know many who have lost their lives in a bad deal or a deal gone wrong, and most were sober when that occurred. The profit is what drives the violence.

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