The Obama policy directive was to tell his regional federal prosecutors to ignore all federal drug laws related to marijuana. The Sessions directive doesn’t rescind the Obama directive as cleanly as your survey question leads everyone to believe. Rather the Sessions directive merely leaves it up to the regional federal prosecutors as to which federal laws related to marijuana to enforce or not. So it is not quite as cut and dry as your survey question makes it sound and thus you haven’t offered a correct option. Just an FYI.
On a personal note, Jeff Sessions seems quite content to limit his actions to playing small ball like this type of action. Which makes him the wrong person to lead the Justice Department as the AG for President Trump. Major current corruption activity within federal government agencies and the past administration get no attention from the AG. The already verified collusion between the Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton with Russian government sources utilized by Christopher Steel as part of the Fusion GPS activity paid for by both the Democrat Party and Clinton gets no dedicated Justice Department attention. All while the American taxpayers are paying millions of dollars for a biased Special Council and his team of Democrat and Clinton loyalists are on a fishing expedition to find something / anything that could serve as a pretense to impeach President Trump should the Democrats re-take the House. To top it all off, Hillary will soon be able to skate on the whole e-mail server fiasco, because the the window to prosecute her and her aids will soon expire.
Anyway, have a nice weekend.
BobS
6 years ago
I defy anyone to show me in the Constitution where the Feds have any authority of any kind over marijuana – or 99% of most anything else they do.
JohnR
6 years ago
Change the law or enforce the law.
Albert Delay
6 years ago
The people that vote against pot usage obviously are happy with man made drugs and the problems they cause. Pot is natural, non-addictive and very useful when used properly. You people against it I damn you to Hell because that is what You’ve done to those of us that could get relief from it !
jerry
6 years ago
ANY mind altering drug is a great way to kill our wonderful USA. And it’s working!! From the womb to the tomb.
B warnstaff
6 years ago
I know too many people with cancer or other medical reasons who need it to for pain and seizures. Just tax it like Canada and find something more important like heroine or other drugs that have no medical purpose. There’s bigger and more important things like illegals who commit a crime should not be allowed to come back again
jerry
6 years ago
Mind-altering drugs are a great way to kill our wonderful USA. And it’s working – from the womb to the tomb!
L. Sue Gilmore
6 years ago
Marijuana IS a gateway drug without a doubt. If so good as ‘medical’ make a pill prescription. Smoking alone is damaging the lungs etc.
Billie Lynn Thomas
6 years ago
Marijuana needs to be decriminalized, by doing so it will kill the sale/street value. Allowance for up to 1/2 oz for personal use should carry no penalty. Again dealers and growers won’t make money on the green leafy stuff so this will
cause the illegal use to dry up. Treat users to cigarette/beer rules of use.
Kenneth D. Sabic
6 years ago
Without exception, every person who has overdosed on hard illegal drugs started with Marijuana !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Justin
6 years ago
They should decriminalize it.
It has been a waste of time and an abuse of power by the federal government for decades that has resulted in no real value.
I say that as someone who doesn’t use pot.
Jim+Mattson
6 years ago
I always wondered why anyone would vote ‘unsure’, then I did it today. I am vehemently opposed to recreational marijuana use, and figured the ‘medical’ use was an excuse to get high. Then a good friend was diagnosed with lung cancer. The side effects of the treatments left her wanting to die (and be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ). A friend from her husband’s ‘wild days’ talked her into trying a drop of “liquid cannibis”(?) on her food. The horrible side effects disappeared, and she was able to function again. It didn’t make her high – but it sure improved her health. I can’t imagine her getting locked up for trying to stay alive, but I am in total agreement that we should enforce our laws against recreational use…
Bob
6 years ago
One thing I do know for sure is…the law is the law and all of our laws should be enforced. If we don’t like a law then we should work to change it.
Bruce
6 years ago
This is a insane law. We have illegals coming to our country and that’s OK. We have Big Pharmaceuticals pushing drugs that kill more people every year and that is OK. Alcohol and beer kill more people and that’s OK. We have corrupt politicians, HC, that broke the law and they are not prosecuted. I agree that marijuana should not be used while a minor and in school because it does effect learning, however the medicinal use of marijuana is documented and without the side effect of real drugs. All other drugs and alcohol have to be processed and they make a profit. Common sense is lost on this, change the law, fighting the smuggling of the most dangerous drugs has been going on for over 50 years and this has not stopped it. How much will we pay to incarcerate someone growing weed or those that are looking for a alternative to costly drugs.
M Anaconda
6 years ago
As a caregiver, I have seen the benefits that cannabinoids have provided to seniors in pain. While I support legalization, I also believe that standards for intoxication and simple, reliable tests need to become available to law enforcement to keep the streets safe. Deriving tax revenue from marijuana is a pretty bad justification, but individual freedom and reduction of illegal drug trafficking are pretty good justification.
CJ Neesmith
6 years ago
Have we forgotten that we are meant to be the party of LESS government control, not more?
“If it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket, what difference does it make?” Thomas Jefferson
Rogrdane
6 years ago
Considering that most unbiased medical studies show marked impacts, negative, from pot smoking and that reasonable and prudent LE experts indicate it is indeed a gateway drug AND that ‘being under the influence’ of anything can be hazardous to other people’s health, all combined it is wisdom to curtail usage. That said, I do know those who suffer intractable pain and cannabis helps. So medical use should be continued but excesses (and anyone who thinks that doesn’t occur hasn’t lived near a medical dispensary) should be handled in a serious manner. I hear people say “It’s no worse than alcohol” and, while excellent medical studies indicate that it has deleterious effects different from booze, I really don’t want anymore “under the influence” people driving, operating machinery or simply creating domestic lunacy.
Linda Bagley
6 years ago
There are proven medical benefits to marijuana. I believe that alcohol is worse than marijuana, it kills more people in this country than any other drug because of the damage it does to the body and it is socially accepted. Consider the fact of your warm weather states growing marijuana for resale. The amount of tax money on this industry would provide these states with an income instead of raising the taxes on it’s residents. We need to look at the big picture and stop being so narrow minded and behind the times.
Brian B
6 years ago
We are at war with drug abuse in America. It is every bit as dangerous and destructive as any foreign enemy. The federal government has both a right and a mandate to protect our way of life from the socially destructive consequences of this gate-way drug.
Joe Liss
6 years ago
Let marijuana go. Pick your fights. Jails and courts are already overcrowded
Tony Green
6 years ago
Why do we get to the point of “lenency” after years and years of discussion from the liberals? This is what they do, trying to convince people that what used to be totally illegal should be considered acceptable. Anything to get a vote. How about the hundreds of deaths contributed to “whacked out drivers” using marijuana causing accidents and death the consequence? The United States is in a dire position with ethics and common sense. President Trump has been watching the decline in scruples morality due to his predecessors. He is trying to correct it and bring the U.S. back to a respectable nation.
Sheri Hennig
6 years ago
Unfortunately, as long as cigarettes and alcohol are legal. Liberals will fight for marijuana legalization.
I forsee a never ending issue like abortion.
Both create endless divisions which the leftist want.
LOLA TODD COLLINS
6 years ago
Just seeing some of the people who were purchasing their marijuana, and seeing how giddy they were, makes me more worried that this is one big mistake. One of our friends was killed while on a vacation by a driver who was high on this drug. Her son was badly injured, and that family was never the same. It’s too sad that people can’t just be HIGH ON LIVING. But they believe it can’t happen without drugs. People who use drugs have no idea they are putting those around them in danger when they drive.
Vickie
6 years ago
It is time for decriminalization of marijuana. The majority of states have legalized some form of marijuana by the vote of the people. Federal law should never go against the law of the states. Let’s put our resources where it can be better used. Let’s collect taxes on recreational use of marijuana, raise taxes on alcohol & cigarettes. Theses taxes could restore the money’s stolen from social security and help pay down our national debt. (Medicinal should not be taxed any more than traditional medicine)
WayneB
6 years ago
It’s time for a change! We have witnessed a fight to prevent cannabis from being used medically and recreationally for more than 60 years that has truly failed. This stuff is everywhere and the federal and state governments have spent countless dollars trying to prevent it’s use. Why? The wasted resources could be put to much better use. It’s moronic to continue to practice the same methods of prevention over and over that just do nothing but waste time, money and resources. Legalization and control is the only answer to this real problem and big Farma will just have to find another vise to use to protect their empire. The only winners in the war on cannabis are lawyers and big Farma. Cannabis has been proven it can help people who are suffering. Why would any government want to stop that??? It will change and the sooner the better. This is the only time I have ever agreed with California policy.
John Doe
6 years ago
States rights? Federal law supercedes state law. Bust them and end this asinine stupidity.
Clyde Perrine
6 years ago
Why differentiate between alcohol and marijuana in this country? If the feds allow alcohol then what legal grounds are there to restrict marijuana? I know the answer. The state’s want control for the money. That’s it in a nut shell.
Allan L.
6 years ago
Lazy Congress-critters with the administrative state, AS USUAL, created this mess and have done nothing about it. When the DEA was created, Congress not only created the dangerous drugs list and classifications, but also gave DEA the power to change the classifications. Marijuana is a Class 1 drug alongside of Heroin. But, Coke and Meth are Class 2 drugs because of possible medicinal value. We have known for some time that the medicinal value of CBD – which contains no THC – and other uses of marijuana and hemp are valuable — and that marijuana is not as addictive a drug as heroin, coke, or meth. So, why the Hell is Marijuana, LEGALLY – SPEAKING, classified as more dangerously damaging than the medical opioids which are the biggest drug problem escalating across the whole nation?!?!?!?!
Allan
J. Clarke
6 years ago
So much has been said about the health hazards of smoking tobacco products. Now it is acceptable to smoke pot. What is the difference.
Both are addictive.
Dale Krebsbach
6 years ago
I am mostly against federal laws and rules but not in this case. Fifty different rules for our fifty states is worse than no rules at all. Marijuana should be regulated like other intoxicants. Restrict the sale to Liquor Stores and tax the hell out of it. Of course with exceptions for medical prescription.
Jim
6 years ago
A lot more people are dying or dysfunctional in this country from alcohol abuse than from marijuana. Think about that when you have your cocktail or glass(es) of wine at dinner tonight. Don’t be a hypocrite. And many of you suffer with health issues that can be cured or greatly deminished with CBD or THC therapy. Open your eyes.
Steve Patterson
6 years ago
marijuana if sold should be subject to other commerce laws, otherwise it should be a vote of the people of that state.
George
6 years ago
The entire issue hinges on money (taxes) the states will receive,instead of restraining themselves government officials tax and spend to obscene levels and forget the taxpayers do not have bottomless pockets.This issue with pot is deceptive because users claim it is harmless which has proven to be untrue.The loss of tobacco tax revenue left a huge gap for the politicians to fill.It is insane to claim tobacco is harmful but marijuana is not.It has already placed an additional new burden on law enforcement.Where is MADD on this issue?
Bob Sinclair
6 years ago
We in America today have more than enough problems with the two legalized “Recreational” Drugs already. ( those being Nicotine and Alcohol). The LAST thing we need is yet another one adding to the mess and all that it brings down. Saying Marijuana is less harmful that these two is merely a Straw Man Argument. ANY adding to the Drug Problems in American society is a MISTAKE,……no matter how comparatively “Less Harmful” it might be perceived as being at this time.
Mark Rieser
6 years ago
The Feds have spent too much time and money pursuing their failed, zero-tolerance war on drugs…at least in the case of marijuana. All they have really managed to do is fill prisons with low-level “criminals”, who just wanted to relax. They also managed to fund well-armed street gangs in every major city, just as they created the magus with prohibition. They claim it has a gateway effect, and therefore classify it as just as dangerous as heroin. Ha!
When they outlaw all other mood-altering substances, like alcohol and prescription pharmaceuticals…then people might listen to them. Oh wait, they already tried to outlaw witchcraft, prostitution, sodomy and alcohol. Hmm. Maybe you can’t effectively legislate religion, sex and the need to seek escape from the pressures of life, without burning people at the stake, stoning, or some form of confinement.
Maybe people just need to see good lives modeled successfully, and simply get swayed off the path by the well funded once-in-the-minority liberals, who have swelled their numbers by co-opting our schools and controlling nearly all of the media. Maybe it is due to corporate America continuing to downsize, while expecting those employees left behind to do more and more of the workload. Maybe it is overpopulation, not enough nature around us anymore and too much traffic, light and noise…as well as a decrease in resources available on the planet, and biodiversity declining at an alarming rate.
Whatever happened to this land is your land, this land is my land? Land of the free? Right to a speedy trial? Rights against unlawful search and seizure? Rights to privacy? Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Of letting God judge those outside the church, and of the church judging those within it?
It is nice to believe our leaders are benevolent. The facts show that we pay income tax due to an emergency winter session of Congress back in 1919 I believe, when they snuck in a bill with a minimum vote during a recess period. That was just about when the Federal a Reserve bank was founded. Whoever controls money, the press, and even culture controls it all. We have come to the point of being farmed. All they want is healthy, low-cost farm animals to labor for them until at least 70 years of age, if they can pull it off. After that, they hope you die.
Steve L.
6 years ago
I voted “Yes, liberal pot laws are a pipe dream doomed to go up in smoke” only because the correct choice was unavailable. I believe marijuana should be LEGAL nationwide and taxed the hell out of like tobacco. This has been my stance for decades even though I do NOT partake! However, until that happens, no state should be allowed to override Federal law on this or anything else.
Gary Mefford
6 years ago
time for states to get all their right back that were taken away from them by the feds
Susan
6 years ago
I believe theCongress should update the law regarding marijuana and States Rights. This is one area where both sides can work together. Then, the Feds will not be conflicted regarding state laws vs federal law on this subject.
Danolator
6 years ago
The federal government is far too involved in our state and local business. Compared to legal drugs like alcohol and opioids, this non-drug shouldn’t be an issue at all. Sessions has bigger fish to fry. He should be fired. #FIREJEFFSESSIONS
Big Daddy
6 years ago
If federal law overrides state law, then I agree. If States disagree, take it up in the courts. Same thing is happening in some cities and states with letting illegals stay. Can’t allow this to happen.
As far as this poll goes, I did not vote. I did not like the choices. Why not “Yes” or “No”?
TAP CEO
6 years ago
How well is the law, against use, working. QUESTION: IF I were to want to use, who would be the best person to ask “Where can I get some marijuana?.” ANSWER: Any high school student. Did we not learn anything from Prohibition days? How much money and time would be saved if law enforcement did not have to waste their time dealing with dealers and users, not to mention the space and money required to prosecute and house these “criminals” in our prisons. As Rush would say, “Follow the money.” Somebody is getting rich off of the illegality of marijuana or it would have been decriminalized years ago. In the past, I have used cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana. I was only a danger to others while drinking. Today, I do not use any of the above except alcohol. I MAY have a drink twice a year. Thanksgiving and Christmas. And when I do drink, it’s 1 drink. That’s it!
Martin
6 years ago
Time for the American citizens to wake up!
Cannabis is a naturally growing substance that has existed since creation. God created all substances for the use and benefit of man, there are people that are inclined to abuse anything. But for people to say I don’t agree with it’s use so nobody should be able to use it, is against our constitution.
If you don’t like it don’t use it but your privilege of choice stops where mine begins.
Remove cannabis from any retrictions, use the wasted money to stamp out the poisons being cooked up in labs across the country, legal and illegal.
ANYBODY that has ever worked in a pharmacuitical plant knows the poisons and deadly chemicals utilized in “DRUG” manufacture, sanctioned by the same government that says a simple herb that grows wild is BAD!
In spite of the documented positive benefits our government is making the same mistake as alcohol prohibition!
THat did’nt work and neither is the current abomination!
corky
6 years ago
Sessions recused himself. Stop referring to his participation.
John
6 years ago
What really sucks is that there is a medical purpose for it, it is the recreational use that is the issue at hand. Medical use should be permitted, recreational use dealt with. that wasn’t a choice in the poll
Tom S
6 years ago
I think POT is a gateway drug. I believe America does NOT need another vice. FDA should approve pot and treat as a prescription drug ONLY. Thinking that people under 21 wont use it is just idiotic.
D Miles
6 years ago
I think this is the Trump administration giving Congress the nudge it needs to get off their butts & change the laws. It is the Presidents duty to enforce the laws on the books.
Ken
6 years ago
There is too much ‘over reach’ by the federal government. Let the states handle this issue
Norman Lawrence
6 years ago
Just as an aside. Marijuana is in the hemp family and hemp is a natural fiber that is used to make rope. Restrictions were placed on hemp when the chemical companies invented nylon and dacron. Hemp is a very strong and inexpensive fiber. Follow the money to see who backed the legislation against hemp. The marijuana that is being sold today is way more potent thru the process of selective cultivation than it was 100 years ago. And Big pharma does not make any money on it! Follow the money.
Paul B
6 years ago
My concern over the legalization of recreational pot is the medical epidemic of pulmonary diseases like COPD and pulmonary fibrosis that will result from increased use of a product harsher than tobacco which the public unsuspectingly accepts as “safer than alcohol”. The medical costs for the taxpayers will far outweigh any revenue generated by the taxes collected on it.
Donnie Laymon
6 years ago
At just about the time in our history that you think there’s a glimmer of hope for adults and little children with debilitating illnesses then the know it all politicians step up to SAVE THE DAY, and keep the EVIL weed from harming those who need it most. What kind of stupid Ass would do that, Oh hell it’s Jeff Sessions who knows it all.
The Obama policy directive was to tell his regional federal prosecutors to ignore all federal drug laws related to marijuana. The Sessions directive doesn’t rescind the Obama directive as cleanly as your survey question leads everyone to believe. Rather the Sessions directive merely leaves it up to the regional federal prosecutors as to which federal laws related to marijuana to enforce or not. So it is not quite as cut and dry as your survey question makes it sound and thus you haven’t offered a correct option. Just an FYI.
On a personal note, Jeff Sessions seems quite content to limit his actions to playing small ball like this type of action. Which makes him the wrong person to lead the Justice Department as the AG for President Trump. Major current corruption activity within federal government agencies and the past administration get no attention from the AG. The already verified collusion between the Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton with Russian government sources utilized by Christopher Steel as part of the Fusion GPS activity paid for by both the Democrat Party and Clinton gets no dedicated Justice Department attention. All while the American taxpayers are paying millions of dollars for a biased Special Council and his team of Democrat and Clinton loyalists are on a fishing expedition to find something / anything that could serve as a pretense to impeach President Trump should the Democrats re-take the House. To top it all off, Hillary will soon be able to skate on the whole e-mail server fiasco, because the the window to prosecute her and her aids will soon expire.
Anyway, have a nice weekend.
I defy anyone to show me in the Constitution where the Feds have any authority of any kind over marijuana – or 99% of most anything else they do.
Change the law or enforce the law.
The people that vote against pot usage obviously are happy with man made drugs and the problems they cause. Pot is natural, non-addictive and very useful when used properly. You people against it I damn you to Hell because that is what You’ve done to those of us that could get relief from it !
ANY mind altering drug is a great way to kill our wonderful USA. And it’s working!! From the womb to the tomb.
I know too many people with cancer or other medical reasons who need it to for pain and seizures. Just tax it like Canada and find something more important like heroine or other drugs that have no medical purpose. There’s bigger and more important things like illegals who commit a crime should not be allowed to come back again
Mind-altering drugs are a great way to kill our wonderful USA. And it’s working – from the womb to the tomb!
Marijuana IS a gateway drug without a doubt. If so good as ‘medical’ make a pill prescription. Smoking alone is damaging the lungs etc.
Marijuana needs to be decriminalized, by doing so it will kill the sale/street value. Allowance for up to 1/2 oz for personal use should carry no penalty. Again dealers and growers won’t make money on the green leafy stuff so this will
cause the illegal use to dry up. Treat users to cigarette/beer rules of use.
Without exception, every person who has overdosed on hard illegal drugs started with Marijuana !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They should decriminalize it.
It has been a waste of time and an abuse of power by the federal government for decades that has resulted in no real value.
I say that as someone who doesn’t use pot.
I always wondered why anyone would vote ‘unsure’, then I did it today. I am vehemently opposed to recreational marijuana use, and figured the ‘medical’ use was an excuse to get high. Then a good friend was diagnosed with lung cancer. The side effects of the treatments left her wanting to die (and be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ). A friend from her husband’s ‘wild days’ talked her into trying a drop of “liquid cannibis”(?) on her food. The horrible side effects disappeared, and she was able to function again. It didn’t make her high – but it sure improved her health. I can’t imagine her getting locked up for trying to stay alive, but I am in total agreement that we should enforce our laws against recreational use…
One thing I do know for sure is…the law is the law and all of our laws should be enforced. If we don’t like a law then we should work to change it.
This is a insane law. We have illegals coming to our country and that’s OK. We have Big Pharmaceuticals pushing drugs that kill more people every year and that is OK. Alcohol and beer kill more people and that’s OK. We have corrupt politicians, HC, that broke the law and they are not prosecuted. I agree that marijuana should not be used while a minor and in school because it does effect learning, however the medicinal use of marijuana is documented and without the side effect of real drugs. All other drugs and alcohol have to be processed and they make a profit. Common sense is lost on this, change the law, fighting the smuggling of the most dangerous drugs has been going on for over 50 years and this has not stopped it. How much will we pay to incarcerate someone growing weed or those that are looking for a alternative to costly drugs.
As a caregiver, I have seen the benefits that cannabinoids have provided to seniors in pain. While I support legalization, I also believe that standards for intoxication and simple, reliable tests need to become available to law enforcement to keep the streets safe. Deriving tax revenue from marijuana is a pretty bad justification, but individual freedom and reduction of illegal drug trafficking are pretty good justification.
Have we forgotten that we are meant to be the party of LESS government control, not more?
“If it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket, what difference does it make?” Thomas Jefferson
Considering that most unbiased medical studies show marked impacts, negative, from pot smoking and that reasonable and prudent LE experts indicate it is indeed a gateway drug AND that ‘being under the influence’ of anything can be hazardous to other people’s health, all combined it is wisdom to curtail usage. That said, I do know those who suffer intractable pain and cannabis helps. So medical use should be continued but excesses (and anyone who thinks that doesn’t occur hasn’t lived near a medical dispensary) should be handled in a serious manner. I hear people say “It’s no worse than alcohol” and, while excellent medical studies indicate that it has deleterious effects different from booze, I really don’t want anymore “under the influence” people driving, operating machinery or simply creating domestic lunacy.
There are proven medical benefits to marijuana. I believe that alcohol is worse than marijuana, it kills more people in this country than any other drug because of the damage it does to the body and it is socially accepted. Consider the fact of your warm weather states growing marijuana for resale. The amount of tax money on this industry would provide these states with an income instead of raising the taxes on it’s residents. We need to look at the big picture and stop being so narrow minded and behind the times.
We are at war with drug abuse in America. It is every bit as dangerous and destructive as any foreign enemy. The federal government has both a right and a mandate to protect our way of life from the socially destructive consequences of this gate-way drug.
Let marijuana go. Pick your fights. Jails and courts are already overcrowded
Why do we get to the point of “lenency” after years and years of discussion from the liberals? This is what they do, trying to convince people that what used to be totally illegal should be considered acceptable. Anything to get a vote. How about the hundreds of deaths contributed to “whacked out drivers” using marijuana causing accidents and death the consequence? The United States is in a dire position with ethics and common sense. President Trump has been watching the decline in scruples morality due to his predecessors. He is trying to correct it and bring the U.S. back to a respectable nation.
Unfortunately, as long as cigarettes and alcohol are legal. Liberals will fight for marijuana legalization.
I forsee a never ending issue like abortion.
Both create endless divisions which the leftist want.
Just seeing some of the people who were purchasing their marijuana, and seeing how giddy they were, makes me more worried that this is one big mistake. One of our friends was killed while on a vacation by a driver who was high on this drug. Her son was badly injured, and that family was never the same. It’s too sad that people can’t just be HIGH ON LIVING. But they believe it can’t happen without drugs. People who use drugs have no idea they are putting those around them in danger when they drive.
It is time for decriminalization of marijuana. The majority of states have legalized some form of marijuana by the vote of the people. Federal law should never go against the law of the states. Let’s put our resources where it can be better used. Let’s collect taxes on recreational use of marijuana, raise taxes on alcohol & cigarettes. Theses taxes could restore the money’s stolen from social security and help pay down our national debt. (Medicinal should not be taxed any more than traditional medicine)
It’s time for a change! We have witnessed a fight to prevent cannabis from being used medically and recreationally for more than 60 years that has truly failed. This stuff is everywhere and the federal and state governments have spent countless dollars trying to prevent it’s use. Why? The wasted resources could be put to much better use. It’s moronic to continue to practice the same methods of prevention over and over that just do nothing but waste time, money and resources. Legalization and control is the only answer to this real problem and big Farma will just have to find another vise to use to protect their empire. The only winners in the war on cannabis are lawyers and big Farma. Cannabis has been proven it can help people who are suffering. Why would any government want to stop that??? It will change and the sooner the better. This is the only time I have ever agreed with California policy.
States rights? Federal law supercedes state law. Bust them and end this asinine stupidity.
Why differentiate between alcohol and marijuana in this country? If the feds allow alcohol then what legal grounds are there to restrict marijuana? I know the answer. The state’s want control for the money. That’s it in a nut shell.
Lazy Congress-critters with the administrative state, AS USUAL, created this mess and have done nothing about it. When the DEA was created, Congress not only created the dangerous drugs list and classifications, but also gave DEA the power to change the classifications. Marijuana is a Class 1 drug alongside of Heroin. But, Coke and Meth are Class 2 drugs because of possible medicinal value. We have known for some time that the medicinal value of CBD – which contains no THC – and other uses of marijuana and hemp are valuable — and that marijuana is not as addictive a drug as heroin, coke, or meth. So, why the Hell is Marijuana, LEGALLY – SPEAKING, classified as more dangerously damaging than the medical opioids which are the biggest drug problem escalating across the whole nation?!?!?!?!
Allan
So much has been said about the health hazards of smoking tobacco products. Now it is acceptable to smoke pot. What is the difference.
Both are addictive.
I am mostly against federal laws and rules but not in this case. Fifty different rules for our fifty states is worse than no rules at all. Marijuana should be regulated like other intoxicants. Restrict the sale to Liquor Stores and tax the hell out of it. Of course with exceptions for medical prescription.
A lot more people are dying or dysfunctional in this country from alcohol abuse than from marijuana. Think about that when you have your cocktail or glass(es) of wine at dinner tonight. Don’t be a hypocrite. And many of you suffer with health issues that can be cured or greatly deminished with CBD or THC therapy. Open your eyes.
marijuana if sold should be subject to other commerce laws, otherwise it should be a vote of the people of that state.
The entire issue hinges on money (taxes) the states will receive,instead of restraining themselves government officials tax and spend to obscene levels and forget the taxpayers do not have bottomless pockets.This issue with pot is deceptive because users claim it is harmless which has proven to be untrue.The loss of tobacco tax revenue left a huge gap for the politicians to fill.It is insane to claim tobacco is harmful but marijuana is not.It has already placed an additional new burden on law enforcement.Where is MADD on this issue?
We in America today have more than enough problems with the two legalized “Recreational” Drugs already. ( those being Nicotine and Alcohol). The LAST thing we need is yet another one adding to the mess and all that it brings down. Saying Marijuana is less harmful that these two is merely a Straw Man Argument. ANY adding to the Drug Problems in American society is a MISTAKE,……no matter how comparatively “Less Harmful” it might be perceived as being at this time.
The Feds have spent too much time and money pursuing their failed, zero-tolerance war on drugs…at least in the case of marijuana. All they have really managed to do is fill prisons with low-level “criminals”, who just wanted to relax. They also managed to fund well-armed street gangs in every major city, just as they created the magus with prohibition. They claim it has a gateway effect, and therefore classify it as just as dangerous as heroin. Ha!
When they outlaw all other mood-altering substances, like alcohol and prescription pharmaceuticals…then people might listen to them. Oh wait, they already tried to outlaw witchcraft, prostitution, sodomy and alcohol. Hmm. Maybe you can’t effectively legislate religion, sex and the need to seek escape from the pressures of life, without burning people at the stake, stoning, or some form of confinement.
Maybe people just need to see good lives modeled successfully, and simply get swayed off the path by the well funded once-in-the-minority liberals, who have swelled their numbers by co-opting our schools and controlling nearly all of the media. Maybe it is due to corporate America continuing to downsize, while expecting those employees left behind to do more and more of the workload. Maybe it is overpopulation, not enough nature around us anymore and too much traffic, light and noise…as well as a decrease in resources available on the planet, and biodiversity declining at an alarming rate.
Whatever happened to this land is your land, this land is my land? Land of the free? Right to a speedy trial? Rights against unlawful search and seizure? Rights to privacy? Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Of letting God judge those outside the church, and of the church judging those within it?
It is nice to believe our leaders are benevolent. The facts show that we pay income tax due to an emergency winter session of Congress back in 1919 I believe, when they snuck in a bill with a minimum vote during a recess period. That was just about when the Federal a Reserve bank was founded. Whoever controls money, the press, and even culture controls it all. We have come to the point of being farmed. All they want is healthy, low-cost farm animals to labor for them until at least 70 years of age, if they can pull it off. After that, they hope you die.
I voted “Yes, liberal pot laws are a pipe dream doomed to go up in smoke” only because the correct choice was unavailable. I believe marijuana should be LEGAL nationwide and taxed the hell out of like tobacco. This has been my stance for decades even though I do NOT partake! However, until that happens, no state should be allowed to override Federal law on this or anything else.
time for states to get all their right back that were taken away from them by the feds
I believe theCongress should update the law regarding marijuana and States Rights. This is one area where both sides can work together. Then, the Feds will not be conflicted regarding state laws vs federal law on this subject.
The federal government is far too involved in our state and local business. Compared to legal drugs like alcohol and opioids, this non-drug shouldn’t be an issue at all. Sessions has bigger fish to fry. He should be fired. #FIREJEFFSESSIONS
If federal law overrides state law, then I agree. If States disagree, take it up in the courts. Same thing is happening in some cities and states with letting illegals stay. Can’t allow this to happen.
As far as this poll goes, I did not vote. I did not like the choices. Why not “Yes” or “No”?
How well is the law, against use, working. QUESTION: IF I were to want to use, who would be the best person to ask “Where can I get some marijuana?.” ANSWER: Any high school student. Did we not learn anything from Prohibition days? How much money and time would be saved if law enforcement did not have to waste their time dealing with dealers and users, not to mention the space and money required to prosecute and house these “criminals” in our prisons. As Rush would say, “Follow the money.” Somebody is getting rich off of the illegality of marijuana or it would have been decriminalized years ago. In the past, I have used cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana. I was only a danger to others while drinking. Today, I do not use any of the above except alcohol. I MAY have a drink twice a year. Thanksgiving and Christmas. And when I do drink, it’s 1 drink. That’s it!
Time for the American citizens to wake up!
Cannabis is a naturally growing substance that has existed since creation. God created all substances for the use and benefit of man, there are people that are inclined to abuse anything. But for people to say I don’t agree with it’s use so nobody should be able to use it, is against our constitution.
If you don’t like it don’t use it but your privilege of choice stops where mine begins.
Remove cannabis from any retrictions, use the wasted money to stamp out the poisons being cooked up in labs across the country, legal and illegal.
ANYBODY that has ever worked in a pharmacuitical plant knows the poisons and deadly chemicals utilized in “DRUG” manufacture, sanctioned by the same government that says a simple herb that grows wild is BAD!
In spite of the documented positive benefits our government is making the same mistake as alcohol prohibition!
THat did’nt work and neither is the current abomination!
Sessions recused himself. Stop referring to his participation.
What really sucks is that there is a medical purpose for it, it is the recreational use that is the issue at hand. Medical use should be permitted, recreational use dealt with. that wasn’t a choice in the poll
I think POT is a gateway drug. I believe America does NOT need another vice. FDA should approve pot and treat as a prescription drug ONLY. Thinking that people under 21 wont use it is just idiotic.
I think this is the Trump administration giving Congress the nudge it needs to get off their butts & change the laws. It is the Presidents duty to enforce the laws on the books.
There is too much ‘over reach’ by the federal government. Let the states handle this issue
Just as an aside. Marijuana is in the hemp family and hemp is a natural fiber that is used to make rope. Restrictions were placed on hemp when the chemical companies invented nylon and dacron. Hemp is a very strong and inexpensive fiber. Follow the money to see who backed the legislation against hemp. The marijuana that is being sold today is way more potent thru the process of selective cultivation than it was 100 years ago. And Big pharma does not make any money on it! Follow the money.
My concern over the legalization of recreational pot is the medical epidemic of pulmonary diseases like COPD and pulmonary fibrosis that will result from increased use of a product harsher than tobacco which the public unsuspectingly accepts as “safer than alcohol”. The medical costs for the taxpayers will far outweigh any revenue generated by the taxes collected on it.
At just about the time in our history that you think there’s a glimmer of hope for adults and little children with debilitating illnesses then the know it all politicians step up to SAVE THE DAY, and keep the EVIL weed from harming those who need it most. What kind of stupid Ass would do that, Oh hell it’s Jeff Sessions who knows it all.