The complacency regarding the renewed war on cannabis is alarming

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Sessions Voids Cole Memo, the Sky Isn’t Falling
BY MONTEREY BUD ON JANUARY 5TH, 2018 AT 11:18 AM

https://www.marijuana.com/news/2018/01/sessions-voids-cole-memo-the-sky-isnt-falling/


This appears to be the heart of this article's argument:

"The DOJ currently lacks sufficient funding and resources to prosecute all the compliant businesses and their customers. And with November 2018 just around the corner, a majority of U.S. Attorneys will likely view any attack against the marijuana industry as nothing short of political suicide."

Two points on this.
They don't need to go after "all". It would not be difficult, even with limited resources, to target the largest grow/dispensary operations and place forfeiture and seizure on all assets, property, cash, and also owners' personal assets, personalbank accounts, and personal property as products of "ill gotten gains". That doesn't take an army. Just 3 or 4 of these unannounced raids per state will shock the cannabis industry to the core.

As far as the political fallout goes it's more than obvious this administration doesn't care about negative politics when you consider its actions these last 300 or so days, including the very unpopular tax legislation that barely passed along party lines. And while we aren't looking Trump and the Republican Senate are stacking the federal courts with anti-cannabis judges.

Nothing may come of reversing the Cole Memorandum put forth to protect the states during the Obama administration and I hope that is true.
However, I don't believe this is a time to "take a deep breath" and kick back.

[TheMastersNemesis]

1. The GOP Seems To Think It Election Disruption Plan Will Actually Give Them More Power.

[MontanaMama]

2. I'm so pissed

about what Sessions is up to on this. I just discovered CBD products for myself and my old dog because it is now available here in Montana. It is incredible stuff. Game changers to be sure. I don't want to lose, or anybody else for that matter, access to cannabis.

[Voltaire2]

3. legalization isn't going away

so at worst this will drive the non-medical retail business back underground. I think the political fallout from going after regulated medical marijuana would be too much for even the idiots in the republican party to accept.

It is sad. It is also an enormous political opportunity for the Democratic Party. Will leaders have the courage to own this issue?

[workinclasszero]

4. Legalization of recreational and medical MJ

should be a top priority of the democratic party. A majority of Americans want it and it needs to be federal law so red states can't keep it illegal.

It's a winning proposition. Whether the party has the guts or the will to do it remains to be seen.

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7. I agree

[Wounded Bear]

9. Agreed....

It may not be a big issue in all local races, but nationwide, this should be a winner for Dems.

[BannonsLiver]

5. +1

[MineralMan]

6. It's not complacency so much as it is an overload of disgusting

actions by this administration. Different people are alarmed by different things.

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8. My thoughts are

If the big and medium players in the cannabis industry aren't doing all they can to shield their assets then they are fools.

[Wounded Bear]

10. The one big problem is the deep pockets of Big Pharma...

they don't want people self-medicating and forgoing their expensive, and addictive, drugs.

[TeamPooka]

11. They are trying to scare the investment money away from cannabis too.

[Kirk Lover]

12. There is too much money to be made for them to scare away (I hope) n/t

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13. We own TRTC stock

It went from 61 cents per share to 28 cents when Sessions opened his piehole.