OT Trump administration takes aim at recreational marijuana

[SlyPokerDog]

Sean Spicer suggested Thursday that the Trump administration will enforce federal marijuana laws in states where recreational pot is legal.

At a White House press briefing, a reporter asked the White House press secretary how the Trump administration will differ from the Obama administration when it comes to the "state/federal conflict" over recreational marijuana.

"There's two distinct issues here," Spicer said, "medical marijuana and recreational marijuana."

Medical use, he said, is not in question. But recreational use, including in states like Oregon, faces a possible challenge.

"I think that when you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this country," Spicer said, "the last thing that we should be doing is encouraging people."

Though Spicer drew a connection between opioid use and marijuana, there is no known connection between the two. According to the Centers for Disease Control, in 2015 more than 33,000 people died from opioid overdoses, which includes both heroin and prescription painkillers, "more than any year on record."

The CDC reported that "nearly half of all opioid overdose deaths involve a prescription opioid."

http://www.oregonlive.com/marijuana...ministration_takes_aim.html#incart_river_home

 

[crandc]

Trump received a lot of money from private prison industry. Quid pro quo.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

So much for states rights lol. What a buffoon.

 

[barfo]

In other news, because of the pervasive problems with gambling addiction, the administration will soon launch a "War against Pinochle".

barfo

 

[PDXFonz]

It's a proven fact that using marijuana leads to things, like the cessation of prescription drug use.

 

[riverman]

He's running out of people to piss off...this won't end well for Trump or the GNP...just when the tax on pot is about to boost the economy...putting American farmers out of work will increase welfare burdons and drive the industry underground again...tax free

 

[tlongII]

Since I don't smoke weed I don't really care.

 

[riverman]

Since I don't smoke weed I don't really care.

taxed and made in America...you don't have to smoke it to see the benefit. better than big pharma selling dangerous drugs in my view

 

[Jade Falcon]

Since I don't smoke weed I don't really care.

Same. My parents smoke it medically though.

However, even though I don't like it, I really think the Federal Government should legalize it. It would seriously boost private businesses, farming, and provide a wide array of hemp products to our economy.

 

[Cippy91]

Hillary Clinton was also very against weed for the record but yeah fuck all these people, too many in prison because of weed which is insane and EVERY other drug is more harmful than weed could ever be

 

[Natebishop3]

Since I don't smoke weed I don't really care.

Do you care about state's rights?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I wonder if they're going to go after assisted suicide?

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

Good people don't smoke marijuana

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

Good people don't smoke marijuana

Thank God!!! I damn sure don't want anyone thinking I'm good people....

 

[barfo]

Good people don't smoke marijuana

People don't smoke good marijuana.

barfo

 

[PDXFonz]

I wonder if they're going to go after assisted suicide?

Yes, they are going to make it mandatory for weed smokers and muslims.

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

Thanks....



who's president again?

 

[barfo]

Yes, they are going to make it mandatory for weed smokers and muslims.

and trans people and mexicans and democrats and ...

 

[blue32]

Finally something I disagree with this Administration on. ;-)

I don't smoke; but have friends that do. I also realize the medical benefits of it. I think people should be able to smoke whenever they want like they do in Oregon now. I believe this to be a states rights issue and something the Government should hand down to them.

I'd like to hear more about what the Feds have in store for it, after listening to Spicer today.

 

[tlongII]

Personally I think the jury is still out as to whether weed has any harmful effects or not. I understand it has medical benefits, but I think it is potentially harmful as a recreational drug. If it were up to me I would legalize it, but it's not that big of a deal.

 

[Spud147]

That's a whole lot of jobs and small businesses he's talking about.

 

[Jade Falcon]

Every member of the legal system who had anything to do with busting down doors for marijuana should be tortured in Iraq by the U.S. Army in one of their torture prisons.

I feel the same way for every criminal involved in trafficking illegal substances into our communities.

 

[Further]

Well fuck, maybe I won't support Trump then.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

special interests. He's gotta pay back all that super PAC money.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

 

[Jade Falcon]

LMAO, nice.

This one's my favorite. Someone posted it on here....



And it's so true. It's like gun control advocates think that these kinds of things only impact criminals.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

LMAO, nice.

This one's my favorite. Someone posted it on here....

View attachment 12705

And it's so true. It's like gun control advocates think that these kinds of things only impact criminals.

It was me. I like to post it when liberals cry about their weed and scream for gun bans in the same week. Oops thought you were talking about my meme. I like yours too.

 

[crandc]

I don't smoke pot and I oppose this.
1. It will ruin a lot of lives. Locking people up for drug possession. Try getting a job later. Families torn apart. Due to Reagan-era "just say no" policies people with drug convictions are forever barred from accessing all kinds of services, from student loans to federally subsidized housing. A person convicted of rape, murder, armed robbery, after serving his/her sentence, can apply for a federal student loan but not a person convicted of marijuana possession.
2. Prisons will become even more hideously overcrowded, hence more violent. Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Session III has announced the federal government once again wants to use privately run prisons, which are even worse than the state and federal prisons, and that's a pretty low bar.
3. A massive use of federal resources to lock people up for smoking pot. Meanwhile the proposed budget is expected to have drastic cuts in social security, Medicare, housing, transportation, education, not to mention eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Legal Services Corporation, end funding to Corporation for Public Broadcasting and OF COURSE Planned Parenthood. Is this how we want resources spent? Prisons, not schools?
4. The only beneficiaries will be the private prison industry who donated heavily to the Trump campaign. Is this what will "make America great again"? More people locked up so some of the most vicious capitalists, the ones who invest not in making things but in misery, can get richer?
5. It is of a piece with the entire first month of the Trump presidency which has been defined by cruelty. Towards animals, working class homeowners, transgender students. Immigrant parents dragged away from their crying children, patients dragged out of hospitals, the Muslim ban. Now lock up pot smokers. Trump is a vicious, petty bully who takes pleasure from causing pain and distress to vulnerable people, you know, "losers". The secret plan to defeat ISIS never existed, ISIS shoots back. The campaign rhetoric to take on Wall Street was horseshit, the cabinet is filled with Wall Street Executives. Trump kisses the asses of the powerful and kicks the powerless in the face. What a nasty man. Or I should say, excuse for a man.

 

[stampedehero]

Sean Spicer suggested Thursday that the Trump administration will enforce federal marijuana laws in states where recreational pot is legal.

At a White House press briefing, a reporter asked the White House press secretary how the Trump administration will differ from the Obama administration when it comes to the "state/federal conflict" over recreational marijuana.

"There's two distinct issues here," Spicer said, "medical marijuana and recreational marijuana."

Medical use, he said, is not in question. But recreational use, including in states like Oregon, faces a possible challenge.

"I think that when you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this country," Spicer said, "the last thing that we should be doing is encouraging people."

Though Spicer drew a connection between opioid use and marijuana, there is no known connection between the two. According to the Centers for Disease Control, in 2015 more than 33,000 people died from opioid overdoses, which includes both heroin and prescription painkillers, "more than any year on record."

The CDC reported that "nearly half of all opioid overdose deaths involve a prescription opioid."

http://www.oregonlive.com/marijuana...ministration_takes_aim.html#incart_river_home

 

[crandc]

I should add, sets up confrontation between federal and state governments. Point 6.