Politics Sessions personally asked Congress to let him prosecute medical marijuana providers

[riverman]

meh..Sessions has bigger fish to fry than to waste time on something like this. As an aside, I do not remember if I have mentioned this, but the state has purchased a multi story building in salem..some may remember it as an insurance company..and have remodeled an office for Kate Brown on the top floor. The Cost of her office alone was 1.2 Million. This building is being used to collect all of the taxes on pot at this time. All of the taxes are collected in cash..word from inside is that A) They dont even know how much money they have taken in. B) It is being ran like a mafia casino operation, where large sum of cash are being funneled off to pet projects.

It's a mess...they won't even bank it..I have no doubt somebody is skimming off the top of the pot..

 

[barfo]

Right he did do that with the feds and I applauded that but guess what? weed is still legal in a shit ton of states and a lot of the states are still illegal under federal law as well so yeaaaaaaaaaaaaahh

So yeah. Maybe you don't see this as progress or change but I think it's pretty significant.

barfo

 

[Cippy91]

So yeah. Maybe you don't see this as progress or change but I think it's pretty significant.

barfo

Weed should be fully legal everywhere. I mean sure you might find it as progress but once again over 40 states is both illegal and federal so while it was a minor change, wasn't much. People still getting crazy sentences over fucking weed

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Weed should be fully legal everywhere. I mean sure you might find it as progress but once again over 40 states is both illegal and federal so while it was a minor change, wasn't much. People still getting crazy sentences over fucking weed

It's weird watching episodes of Cops and seeing them jack people the fuck up over weed.

 

[Cippy91]

It's weird watching episodes of Cops and seeing them jack people the fuck up over weed.

it's disgusting. These politicians are ancient. I would completely make alcohol illegal before I would weed. Weed actually helps people. BUT THAT PROFIT THOUGH!

it's so crazy and ass backwards

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Legalized marijuana is making it harder for police to search your car

Drug policy experts often say that the health risks of marijuana use are relatively minor compared to the steep costs of marijuana enforcement: expensive policing, disrupted lives, violence and even death.

Law enforcement agencies, however, have often been at the forefront of opposition to marijuana legalization. One reason is that the drug, with its pungent, long-lasting aroma, is relatively easy to detect in the course of a traffic stop or other routine interaction. It's an ideal pretext for initiating a search that otherwise wouldn't be justified — even if that search only turns up evidence of marijuana use and nothing more.

New data on traffic stops in Colorado and Washington underscore this point: After the states legalized pot, traffic searches declined sharply across the board. That's according to the Open Policing Project at Stanford University, which has been analyzing public data of over 100 million traffic stops and searches since 2015.

“After marijuana use was legalized, Colorado and Washington saw dramatic drops in search rates,” the study's authors explain. “That’s because many searches are drug-related. Take away marijuana as a crime and searches go down.”

In Colorado and Washington, traffic searches of black, Hispanic and white drivers fell significantly after legalization, according to the Open Policing Project's analysis. That pattern didn't hold for states where marijuana use remained illegal.

The Project's data encompasses traffic searches initiated for any reason but excludes searches following an arrest. This makes the data a good barometer of searches initiated at an officer's discretion. The numbers changed dramatically after legalization, as we see in the above chart, suggesting, as the researches do, that suspected marijuana use is often a factor in these searches.

As the chart also shows, legalization didn't eliminate racial disparities in the searches. Black and Hispanic motorists are still searched at considerably higher rates than white motorists. But following legalization, they are searched less often than they were before.

In 2014 a Washington Post investigation detailed how highway police often use suspicion of marijuana as justification to search drivers' vehicles and ultimately seize cash and property from them, regardless of whether any drugs are ultimately found. From 2002 to 2012, the federal government seized roughly $1 billion in cash and other assets related to marijuana cases, according to the Wall Street Journal.

That figure doesn't include seizures made by state and local law enforcement authorities who handle most of the nation's drug enforcement.

If legalization leads to fewer searches, that means fewer seizures of cash and property, which could have a significant negative impact on the finances of police departments that have come to rely on those seizures to pad their budgets.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ce-to-search-your-car/?utm_term=.dbdfdd2b08de

 

[DaLincolnJones]

oh cry me a river..they are worried about the reduction of funding from seizures...pissshhhh...all the taxes on pot will more than make up for it

 

[MarAzul]

Weed actually helps people.

Whoa! Take it easy on what ever is jacking you up!

 

[barfo]

Weed should be fully legal everywhere. I mean sure you might find it as progress but once again over 40 states is both illegal and federal so while it was a minor change, wasn't much. People still getting crazy sentences over fucking weed

Well, when I was your age (whatever age that is) it was illegal in all 50 states. So while I understand your impatience, political change takes time, but this particular thing is moving in the right direction (ignoring, for the moment, Sessions).

barfo

 

[Cippy91]

Well, when I was your age (whatever age that is) it was illegal in all 50 states. So while I understand your impatience, political change takes time, but this particular thing is moving in the right direction (ignoring, for the moment, Sessions).

barfo

Yeah I see what you're saying but how many years will this really take? this shit should of been legal on both levels years ago. I am 25 so when I was growing up it obviously was illegal everywhere and people made weed seem like it was the worst drug you could get into, all the misinformation on it. It's just ridiculous, so many people serving insane sentences over some weed. It's these ancient politicians who never understand because they aren't for the people, ever. I say legalize every drug, let people decide what the fuck they want, who is it harming besides themselves. While we are at it, make prostitution legal because that's not hurting anybody either, it's a paid service like anything else in this country.

fuck it, make me president

 

[barfo]

Yeah I see what you're saying but how many years will this really take? this shit should of been legal on both levels years ago. I am 25 so when I was growing up it obviously was illegal everywhere and people made weed seem like it was the worst drug you could get into, all the misinformation on it. It's just ridiculous, so many people serving insane sentences over some weed. It's these ancient politicians who never understand because they aren't for the people, ever. I say legalize every drug, let people decide what the fuck they want, who is it harming besides themselves. While we are at it, make prostitution legal because that's not hurting anybody either, it's a paid service like anything else in this country.

fuck it, make me president

I don't think you are quite ready for the presidency yet. Except as compared to the current occupant (some gratuitous Trump bashing there just because I know it bugs you)

I predict it will take another 20 years or so. You should live to see it legal nationwide.

You say the politicians are ancient, and many of them surely are. But realize that someone who was 20 in the Summer of Love is now 70... lotta old people around now that didn't get their knowledge of pot from Reefer Madness.

barfo

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Trump's new crazy lawyer is very very anti pot. Because the crazy far far far right Christian base is very very anti pot. (This guy loves milking those people for money. Which he'll need since Trump has a history of not paying people)

 

[riverman]

Trump's new crazy lawyer is very very anti pot. Because the crazy far far far right Christian base is very very anti pot. (This guy loves milking those people for money. Which he'll need since Trump has a history of not paying people)

The anti pot fanatics will lose the redneck rural vote...they love their wacky tabaccy! Next thing you know you won't be able to buy beer on super bowl sunday...that'll get some votes!

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Imagine if instead of Jesus doing the, "this wine is my blood, drink it in memory of me" thing he instead blew out a bunch of pot smoke and told people it was his breath.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Imagine if instead of Jesus doing the, "this wine is my blood, drink it in memory of me" thing he instead blew out a bunch of pot smoke and told people it was his breath.

That needs to be a bumper sticker, a really long bumper sticker but the reactions would be awesome.

 

[riverman]

I always liked the bumper sticker, " It's the Oregon Country Fair Man....be glad I'm driving slow!"

 

[H.C.]

You say the politicians are ancient, and many of them surely are. But realize that someone who was 20 in the Summer of Love is now 70... lotta old people around now that didn't get their knowledge of pot from Reefer Madness.

barfo

So whats the excuse these old ass politicians use for allowing cigarettes to stay legal?

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

 

[stampedehero]

"Uptick in Crime" LOL. A citizen smokes a joint and he expects wide eyed fever plagued demons. Sessions needs to get real.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

One of my favorite parts of a recent road trip was sitting in a park in the middle of Mobile Alabama, smoking a joint with a couple of down on their luck (but gracious) black dudes. I had forgotten what it was like to feel paranoid about weed but thoroughly enjoyed myself because I felt like I was blowing the smoke straight into Jeff Sessions face, in his backyard, with people his state and political party go out of their way to shit all over. It's usually the little things like that that give me the serious warm fuzzies.....

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

One of my favorite parts of a recent road trip was sitting in a park in the middle of Mobile Alabama, smoking a joint with a couple of down on their luck (but gracious) black dudes. I had forgotten what it was like to feel paranoid about weed but thoroughly enjoyed myself because I felt like I was blowing the smoke straight into Jeff Sessions face, in his backyard, with people his state and political party go out of their way to shit all over. It's usually the little things like that that give me the serious warm fuzzies.....

He probably heard that. Those ears are supernatural.