Trump's DOJ gears up for crackdown on marijuana

[Phisher]

http://thehill.com/regulation/admin...own-on-marijuana?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=tw

The Trump administration is readying for a crackdown on marijuana users under Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

President Trump’s Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety, led by Sessions, is expected to release a report next week that criminal justice reform advocates fear will link marijuana to violent crime and recommend tougher sentences for those caught growing, selling and smoking the plant.

Sessions sent a memo in April updating the U.S. Attorney’s Offices and Department of Justice Department (DOJ) component heads on the work of the task force, which he said would be accomplished through various subcommittees. In the memo, Sessions said he has asked for initial recommendations no later than July 27.

“Task Force subcommittees will also undertake a review of existing policies in the areas of charging, sentencing, and marijuana to ensure consistency with the Department's overall strategy on reducing violent crime and with Administration goals and priorities,” he wrote.
Criminal justice reform advocates fear Sessions’s memo signals stricter enforcement is ahead.

“The task force revolves around reducing violent crime and Sessions and other DOJ officials have been out there over the last month and explicitly the last couple of weeks talking about how immigration and marijuana increases violent crime,” said Inimai Chettiar, director of the Brennan Center's Justice Program.

 

[trident]

State's rights advocate Sessions is a hypocrite

 

[Badger67]

Idiots.

 

[FacePunch]

Good luck with that, you hypocrite retards.

 

[fordman7795]

Good news. I dont know a single good person who smokes weed.

 

[hillelslovak87]

Sessions only cares about State's Rights when applied to the civil war.....

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

But I thought conservatives wanted to lessen the reach and power of government? Well I guess it's cool if Sessions comes for your weed and makes profit off locking you up.

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

Good news. I dont know a single good person who smokes weed.

Get out of the basement. You'd need to meet people first.

 

[FIMN]

Nothing says MAGA than locking people up.

 

[Thunderflash500]

Good news. I dont know a single good person who smokes weed.

Sad form of reasoning.

 

[Terry Noonan]

What a waste of government resources. How about cracking down on gang crime?

 

[KONE]

Pot smoking burnouts are insufferable and pothead culture should be heavily discouraged

 

[Sexy]

but but muh small govment!!!

 

[Fawlty]

Sorry Jefferson, jazz music and interracial marriage are here to stay. Go fuck your sister some more.

 

[FacePunch]

Meanwhile, the gov't pumps the country full of Oxcontin and Fentanyl creating a new generation of junkies and more bodies than car wrecks or gun violence. Over 500,000 people will die of overdoses in the next ten years. 60,000 people will die this year.

None of them will die from cannabis.

 

[FacePunch]

Pot smoking burnouts are insufferable and pothead culture should be heavily discouraged

This guy is unAmerican.

 

[Sexy]

Meanwhile, the gov't pumps the country full of Oxcontin and Fentanyl creating a new generation of junkies and more bodies than car wrecks or gun violence. Over 500,000 people will die of overdoses in the next ten years. 60,000 people will die this year.

None of them will die from cannabis.

u didnt even mention monsanto

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

This guy is unAmerican.

He's another one of these fake phoney patriots. Fine with restriction on personal choice and freedom as long as it isn't his.

 

[ShoelessRye]

With crime stats trending down the Prison Industrial Complex needs to keep it's prisons at capacity...

 

[fordman7795]

What a waste of government resources. How about cracking down on gang crime?

The gang crime that revolves around weed?