Rohrabacher–Farr amendment
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The Trump Admin - Jeff Sessions is urging that the Rohrabacher–Farr amendment not be renewed. The legislation protects states rights to keep Medical Marijuana legal. it's going to come under attack in September, hold onto your hats and stash your stash/cash growers. IF Jeff Sessions gets his way there will be no more legal medicinal marijuana, or any legal marijuana for that matter.
Science Friday had nice discussion on the topic, check out the podcast if you missed it.
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In before that guy who always
In before that guy who always talks up local vigilante justice and beats his chest and says nothing will change in Humbolt regardless of the laws that are passed.
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Hopefully Sessions hangs
Hopefully Sessions hangs himself with the amount of rope he's given himself over all this Russia bullshit long before that date. I have a feeling no blue state that's gone forward with any sort of legalization is gonna want to spend the $$$$ to cooperate one Iota with the Feds to go after weed in any way state or form.
The threat of the Fed's holding back funding is the scary-est notion, this has successfully been done with regard to Alcohol laws many times in the past (raising drinking age to 21, lowering BAC to 0.08). Also to the national "double nickel' speed limit in the Nixon era.
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Will we still have illegal
Will we still have illegal marijuana?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Hitchhiker awaiting "true call"
https://www.yahoo.com/news
https://www.yahoo.com/news/high-hopes-ride-marijuana-painkillers-amid-op...
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Pool boy. Pharmie Marijuana
pharmaceutical Marijuana is nothing new - Marinol and Dronabinal (Pharmie THC) have been on the market for a while.
The Trump Admin is going after the devil's weed, not the pharmaceuticals being sold.
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The Million Stoners March
The Million Stoners March should be a hoot.
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Hmm Humboldt has been growing
Hmm Humboldt has been growing since 1967 and the feds have not been able to stop it at all !.They tried with the military under bush senior and still we grew more than they could eradicate .We have had our medical going on 21 years .We also have an attorney general and governor and legislators that support it . And we are the 6th largest economy in the world so we have money that the feds want .States rights yo . harvest is going on right now big beautiful buds all over the mnts
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yep, THAT guy.
yep, THAT guy.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: nebulous nelly
>>Will we still have illegal
>>Will we still have illegal marijuana<<
Yes, but try to avoid federal property if you have it.
>The Million Stoners March should be a hoot<
How about the 100,000 stoner lock up?
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my friend helped roarbacher
my friend helped roarbacher out w cbd for sick family member. on this issue he is on the team.
love conservatives selectiveness when it comes to states rights
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Didn't the head of the DNC
Didn't the head of the DNC vote against the amendment?
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<<<Yep, THAT guy.
<<<Yep, THAT guy.
Lol. Like clockwork.
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https://www.seattleweekly.com
Reefer Madness
https://www.seattleweekly.com/food/jeff-sessions-is-coming-for-medical-m...
>>...Sessions is going after the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, introduced way back in 2003 to protect states that had legalized medical marijuana from the ubiquitous War on Drugs movement. It failed to pass six times, but was finally pushed through in 2014, as more and more states approved medical marijuana. Currently the amendment has plenty of bipartisan support.
The letter, obtained by Tom Angell, founder of the advocacy group Marijuana Majority, and verified independently by The Washington Post, stands in stark contrast to Trump’s campaign claims that he was “in 100 percent support” of medical marijuana. But contradiction is part and parcel of this administration. It made sense for Trump to appear supportive of medical cannabis; during his campaign, approval rates were around 85 percent. Right now, approval is at 93 percent.
Trump himself did not mention medical marijuana again until he gave lukewarm approval to the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment when it was kept in the $1.1 trillion spending bill he signed in May. However, in his signing statement, he pressed the point briefly: “Division B, section 537 provides that the Department of Justice may not use any funds to prevent implementation of medical marijuana laws by various States and territories. I will treat this provision consistently with my constitutional responsibility to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” That last part is shorthand often used by past presidents to say, “I’m going to undermine or ignore this thing as soon as possible”—an interesting stance given that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) is one of the president’s firmest allies.
At the same time, Sessions has been quietly maneuvering to repeal the protections. He sent a sentencing memo to federal prosecutors, crafted with help from Stephen Cook, a former federal prosecutor notorious for “going hard” on drug-related convictions, that urged prosecutors to begin seeking the maximum penalties for crimes, including drug offenses. This means we could see a resurgence in mandatory minimums, a practice the Obama administration had backed away from.
This “historic drug epidemic and… uptick in violent crime” that Sessions suggests is also in stark contrast to, well, facts. The National Institute on Drug Abuse announced in April that many states were reporting a decrease in opioid overdoses and deaths in states that were legalizing cannabis. And the Uniform Crime Reporting Program, an FBI-maintained database, just reported a 12.5 percent drop in violent crimes in states bordering Mexico that have passed medical-marijuana laws. Jeff Sessions and the Trump administration are standing in direct opposition to facts, along with the will of the American people.
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"Facts" lol
"Facts" lol
Drug War 101 lesson: The Opiod Epidemic & all the Scare Tactics that come with it are Essential to keeping all this Drug War bullshit alive & kicking. So yeah, Weed in any way, shape, form, that actually reduces Opiod harm, is Anathemia to any good Drug Warrior's goals . . .
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Fucking figures. I tried to
Fucking figures. I tried to tell my friends that moved out to Colorado this shit was going to come down the pike eventually. They try this bullshit and states will openly revolt against the government. Can wait for the new civil war to begin.
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http://kymkemp.com/2017/06/18
http://kymkemp.com/2017/06/18/video-of-seven-acre-fully-permitted-cannab...
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Fucking figures. I tried to
Fucking figures. I tried to tell my friends that moved out to Colorado this shit was going to come down the pike eventually. They try this bullshit and states will openly revolt against the government. Can wait for the new civil war to begin.<<<
I know, right?
"College kids" up in Boulder light couches in fire just for the fun of it ... shit will definitely hit the fan. Perhaps that's the idea, or to force the Fed/State issue to the SCOTUS.
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The most insane riots that
The most insane riots that happened when I went to college (Pitt/WVU) were whenever the football or basketball team upset a ranked team. There was no draft in the late '70's/early '80's, & the drug war hadn't really had a chance to get heated up yet under Reagan, so Priorities are Priorities after all . . .
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comments on that link are
comments on that link are crazy
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Yup just killed an hour of my
Yup just killed an hour of my pointless pitiful life reading thru that - love some of the names: Dragon with Matches, Sugar Magnolia, Honest to the Point of Recklessness
The extensive gossip about the guy who married a new wife 20 yrs younger who allegedly looks like a drag queen.
The threats to use Pollen Drones in 2018 to disrupt each other's grows.
#flatbillhatmafia
"Those vape pens are questionable healthwise at best and the litter of cartridges on the sides of the road are like the whip it piles."
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Bump
Bump
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>> Perhaps that's the idea,
>> Perhaps that's the idea, or to force the Fed/State issue to the SCOTUS.
That already happened. Whatever Congress says goes.
Gonzales v. Raich (previously Ashcroft v. Raich), 545 U.S. 1 (2005), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court ruling that under the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution, Congress may criminalize the production and use of homegrown cannabis even if states approve its use for medicinal purposes.
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Yeah the supremacy clause
Yeah the supremacy clause establishes that.
But...there is de jure and de facto.
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Did Sessions do what you said
Did Sessions do what you said he was gonna do yesterday?
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Still be able to grow a
Still be able to grow a couple plants at home in CA, MA & ME no matter what Sessions does.
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2 week extension for
2 week extension for Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment. Farr retired.
news...
Federal marijuana protections safe for now with stopgap spending bill
“While we are pleased that these critical protections will continue, two weeks is not enough certainty for the millions of Americans who rely on medical marijuana," said Rep. Earl Blumenauer.
http://www.thecannabist.co/2017/12/07/federal-budget-medical-marijuana-r...
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Shutdown Averted, but Medical Marijuana Protections Still at Risk
BRUCE BARCOTT December 7, 2017
https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/shutdown-unlikely-but-medical-marij...
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Jeff Sessions Wants to Crack Down on Legal Marijuana—Will Congress Let Him?
UPDATED: Limits on federal pot prosecution just got a brief extension, but medical marijuana may still be at risk.
By Amanda Marcotte / Salon December 8, 2017, 11:46 AM GMT
https://www.alternet.org/drugs/jeff-sessions-crackdown-legal-marijuana-w...
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>>Gonzales v. Raich
>>Gonzales v. Raich (previously Ashcroft v. Raich), 545 U.S. 1 (2005), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court ruling that under the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution, Congress may criminalize the production and use of homegrown cannabis even if states approve its use for medicinal purposes.
It was the "liberal" justices that ruled thusly.
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>>>Did Sessions do what you
>>>Did Sessions do what you said he was gonna do yesterday?
As mentioned extention from the stopgap bill protects the amendment until Dec. 22.
You can bank on it Sessions will push ahead. He gave a talk to law interns last week reaffirming his intent to press ahead.