Bigdog
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IIRC, less than 1% of prisoners are doing time for possession of weed.
Trump Administration moves to end legal marijuana.
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IIRC, less than 1% of prisoners are doing time for possession of weed.
cawacko
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The democrats controlled congress from 52 to 94 and never did a damn thing about it. Under Obama they had a huge majority in both houses ... and we got nada.
I think there was one bill in 2010? ... and it got like 10 democrat votes, IIRC.
The right way is rarely the easy way.
It doesn't matter what didn't happen 50 years ago. People's view of MJ has changed since then. I'm reading what people are saying in response to this and it isn't good for Republicans. And as we try to make inroads into millennial voters this is not helping us.
We've seen things change organically at the state level over the past few years. Now we have a Republican administration who is saying we want to put a halt to this.
I'm speaking as a Republican who wants to see my party grow. This is bad.
the 13th Amendment freed the enslaved population from the control of slave owners, the reality of slavery lived on. Former slave owners and humiliated Confederate sympathizers sought to maintain the antebellum status quo and minimize the amendment’s financial and social implications. After the war “black codes”—laws aimed at restricting the freedom of former slaves—were initiated to control freed men and women once again. So-called black codes criminalized gathering for worship, reading, writing, and even unemployment. They also supported a system of peonage—the practice of holding persons in servitude as part of a penal sentence. The prison system was used to simultaneously maintain control over the movement of blacks and also to exploit their labor through incarceration. Upon imprisonment, those once enslaved were again forced to work for free—as if slavery had never ended.
The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.
The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.
Althea
Althea told me...
Perhaps, but he did little to change he way banking is done with the industry, and nothing to change the way the IRS makes it almost impossible for the industry to conduct business.
Sessions is ending the horrible drug problems in America. Aren't Republicans pleased. Sessions still thinks weed is a gateway drug. He just solved the heroine problem too. Those states that are collecting money for weed shops and tax money for its workers will be happy. Trump administration is ideological. Run by old ideas and that old time religion. Trump of course is not doing shit. He is not in control . What a mess.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
I get that. The Dems have created a false narrative, that they are pro weed. And they've never had to back it up with a congressional voting record.
We'll see how it plays out.
moon
Satire for Sanity
Weed war: Sessions announces marijuana crackdown
https://www.rt.com/usa/415013-trump-admin-weaken-marijuana-laws/
Way, way too late, Jeff. Your opposition is awake.
https://www.rt.com/usa/415013-trump-admin-weaken-marijuana-laws/
Way, way too late, Jeff. Your opposition is awake.
Like Nixon, Reagan’s declaration of a “war on drugs” preceded any national crisis. More significantly, his own campaign strategist, Lee Atwater, admitted it was politically motivated. In an audio interview, Atwater explained the evolving strategy of talking about race without talking about race:
You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, “forced busing,” “states’ rights,” and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites. . . . “We want to cut this” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”
Being “tough on crime,” then, became code for solving the “race problem.” The emphasis on “law and order” was used to subconsciously communicate a message of “inner-city danger.” The unprecedented millions of dollars to fund prison-building in the 1980s prepared to house a prison population that surpassed 1 million by 1990. While the United States is only 6 percent of the world’s population, we have 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated population. This phenomenon results in part from the “war on drugs.”
Keeping pot illegal, keeps Black men in prison.
You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, “forced busing,” “states’ rights,” and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites. . . . “We want to cut this” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”
Being “tough on crime,” then, became code for solving the “race problem.” The emphasis on “law and order” was used to subconsciously communicate a message of “inner-city danger.” The unprecedented millions of dollars to fund prison-building in the 1980s prepared to house a prison population that surpassed 1 million by 1990. While the United States is only 6 percent of the world’s population, we have 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated population. This phenomenon results in part from the “war on drugs.”
Keeping pot illegal, keeps Black men in prison.
cawacko
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You're correct about the congressional record but we're talking about the Executive Branch here. And as often is the case states are the first to act in our laboratory of democracy. Congress will be the last to act. But by Republicans at the Executive level slowing down/pushing back on the states we are rightfully going to be blamed.
Nixon’s plan, as detailed by his chief strategist, marked an evolution of racial discrimination. It politicized the use of law enforcement by stigmatizing and overpolicing neighborhoods of color, thus helping to create the ominous label “inner city.” Simply put, the “war on drugs” increased both the perception and also the actual instances of crime in African-American and Latino communities.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
And yet, Nixon was The Affirmative Action president. Had to do it by EO because of a Democrat obstructionist congress.
lol
Another BigBitch lie along the same lines as his establishment of the EPA lie.
Must be related to Orangetweet.
countryboy
Verified User
Sessions has been completely AWOL on Fusion GPS and Russia "collusion", but legal weed is suddenly a top priority? What in the actual fuck?
I mean forreal......who actually believes the mess he posts?
I can’t tell if BigBitch is a pathological liar like Trump, but he certainly is a prolific liar.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
Rev. Al says ... Amen sister!
The actual fuck has been posted in this thread.
70 Black people in Georgia were arrested over the holiday weekend for less than 1 once of weed because they were all in the vicinity of the pot.
That's 70 Blacks who now have records when they didn't have one before. Once in the system, the racist white man likes to keep them there.