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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,063 posts)
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 10:50 PM Jan 2018

WA AG: Jeff Sessions's Marijuana War Faces a Foe in Washington State

For nearly a year, I waited for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to accept the longstanding offer from me and Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee to have a conversation about federal priorities with respect to marijuana.

Unfortunately, we are still waiting. Sessions, on the other hand, has just repealed the Department of Justice’s guidance for U.S. attorneys regarding legalized marijuana.

Compare today to 2013, when less than three months after voters approved an initiative to legalize marijuana in our state, then-Attorney General Eric Holder met with the governor and myself.

Those conversations paid off. Seven months later, the Department of Justice produced the Cole Memorandum, detailing the federal government’s priorities with respect to marijuana. Washington state supports these priorities, which include keeping marijuana out of the hands of minors and organized crime, and from crossing state lines. The Cole Memorandum provided clear guidance for the states to improve their regulatory systems and allow businesses to develop.

That guidance is now gone.

I understand that a meeting will not resolve all our differences. I am not naïve, and do not expect to change Sessions’s animosity toward marijuana legalization. But I do believe face-to-face meetings are productive, especially on such critical issues.

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http://www.newsweek.com/jeff-sessions-marijuana-war-washington-state-776246

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WA AG: Jeff Sessions's Marijuana War Faces a Foe in Washington State (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2018 OP
Jeffery Beauregard Sessions is a COWARD MagickMuffin Jan 2018 #1
K&R 2naSalit Jan 2018 #2
"He's a MEAN little man!" Mopar151 Jan 2018 #3

Mopar151

(9,965 posts)
3. "He's a MEAN little man!"
Thu Jan 11, 2018, 01:46 AM
Jan 2018

So said my Uncle "Tiny", of Bircher icon/ NH Governor Mel Thompson. (A native of Georgia). Sessions is cut from the same cloth. Self-righteous, narrow minded, racist, and dysfunctional administrators.

Sessions says "Good people don't smoke marijuana!" How would he know? "Good people" have fled from him and his ilk since the dawn of time.

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