Why I Oppose the Nomination of Jeff Sessions for Attorney General

signalmankenneth

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"Good people do not use marijuana," is the mantra of the man who would be the nation's top law enforcement official. I guess I'm a bad person then, been using it since 1968!

Sen. Jeff Sessions, Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, stated on the floor of the Senate last April, “Good people do not use marijuana”, and in doing so, Sessions defamed countless people. Individuals who are Good People and whom, by the millions, have said, “YES” to responsibly consuming marijuana here in America.

Through the ballot box, nearly a quarter of America’s citizens have regained their marijuana freedom. Their message to the federal government at this moment is loud and clear, exactly the same as was our forebears’ message, fighting for our life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I take Sessions’ demeaning public statement is an insult to my sweet wife of 46 years, Ann, who uses cannabis salve for the neuro-muscular aches and pains of an active life and uses cannabis tincture as a sleeping aid most nights. Annie served as business manager of our small county fair for a decade. She was superintendent of our rural school district in eastern Washington. She is mother of 4 and grandmother of 9. Annie is the very definition of “good people”, Sessions’ ignorant, arrogant and insulting sentiment stating otherwise is wrong, dead wrong.

I urge you to join me in contacting our Senators to question these views. [2]

Millions of Good People do use marijuana! Millions of them.

While over a ten-year period, 8.2 million marijuana arrests [3]; almost nine in 10 were for possession alone.

Raised in Auburn, Alabama, where my dad was a research scientist at the USDA lab there, my formative years in the South taught me to respect women and to never, never let an affront to one’s wife go unchallenged.

Jeff Sessions in insulting my wife has, by proxy, insulted millions and millions of others, too. They are Good People who use marijuana. After eight decades of marijuana prohibition, America’s voters, state-by-state, they are regaining their freedom through the ballot box. Unless he clarifies otherwise, Jeff Sessions’ views on cannabis law reform make him unfit to become America’s next Attorney General.

By
George Rohrbacher

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The picture show the is from the Canadian law blog. Is the author of this article an American or a Canadian?
 
Can't say I care for the guy either, but he is going to be approved, can say good bye to the Federal Gov't insuring certain Southern States abide by Civil Rights and Voting laws
 
i happened to see this part of the Hearing.
Senator (whomever) mentioned the Colle memo under Obama and asked if he would do the same.
Sessions said something about directing resources -meaning probably the same approach.
Sessions mentioned federalism ( commonly called 'states rights') - same deal.

So I would look for more of the same hash of laws that leave dispensaries up in the air in terms of banking /RICO
 
Leahy asks about medical marijuana

Leahy: "If you are confirmed...would you use our federal resources to investigate sick people who are using marijuana in accordance with their state laws" even though it may conflict with federal law?

Sessions: "I won't commit to absolutely never enforcing federal law." But Sessions did agree there was a problem of resources.

"Using good judgement about how to handle these case will be a responsibility of mine...I will try to do so in a fair and just way," Sessions said.
 
Leahy asks about medical marijuana

Leahy: "If you are confirmed...would you use our federal resources to investigate sick people who are using marijuana in accordance with their state laws" even though it may conflict with federal law?

Sessions: "I won't commit to absolutely never enforcing federal law." But Sessions did agree there was a problem of resources.

"Using good judgement about how to handle these case will be a responsibility of mine...I will try to do so in a fair and just way," Sessions said.

Trump would never allow him to start enforcing Federal laws banning marijuana in those States that have legalized it, bad politics
 
Trump would never allow him to start enforcing Federal laws banning marijuana in those States that have legalized it, bad politics

A government cannot choose the laws it wishes to enforce right? If you are not going to enforce them, change the laws.
 
Most any old southerner will have some deplorable sentiments expressed over the years. This presidency is about reclaiming ugliness. Sessions is part of that bullshit. It's like a white nasty as I wanna be mentality. Big middle finger to grace, intelligence, class, merit, charity, worthiness. Warm embrace of populist, least common denominator content, contempt for virtue, class, merit, dignity and science.

Lofty is out of fashion. So wipe your snotty nose of that tablecloth, republicans. Every dog has his day.
 
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