Why is Trump ramping up his unwieldy war on weed?

[lordsummerisle]

salon.com

Earlier this week, it was revealed that President Donald Trump has created a Marijuana Policy Coordination Committee, one in which various federal agencies that oversee marijuana policy work together to find ways to prevent Americans from having access to the drug.

https://www.salon.com/2018/09/02/why-is-trump-ramping-up-his-unwieldy-war-on-weed/

[dameatball]

1. Imagine how much fast food he could eat if he actually smoked the stuff. Or....hmmmmm

[gordianot]

2. So his Russian Mafia friends make more selling illegal weed.

Whatever he does or advocates is for his personal enrichment or that of his Russian masters.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

3. Privatization is limited to when that infringes on insurance, banking or private

prisons. Plus weed convictions are a little money maker. Its to aggravate the little people.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. 100% correct.

I read some time ago how the Drug War creates a fortune for the people who are in the enforcement system, and how high bail creates even more income for prisons and jails who get paid per head, per day.

Also explains why non-profit treatment programs are so limited.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

9. And search and seizure protocols on the highways and when they stop you walking.

If its legal, they cant keep your money etc.

[maxrandb]

4. Because he must kill everything that might bring you pleasure

and relaxation.

[jaysunb]

5. Marijuana is NOT a drug. n/t

[madinmaryland]

6. Because he wants to save the BEST weed for himself...

Stop bogarting that joint, and pass it around!!

[SWBTATTReg]

12. Rump is not on pot, but something else...he's alway sniffling and snorting, like he's just ...

taken a hit on something (or snorted). He's going after the pot because he thinks he can make a difference. Won't. Too accepted into today's society, and is a money maker for those states legalizing it. About time. If they want to do something, do something about the idiotic tweets put out there so the rest of us has to read them...

[JDC]

7. Feels like Pence's handy-work.

[lordsummerisle]

10. So much for

"letting the states decide."

I thought we were past worrying about this on the federal level.

Don't count on the gutless do-nothing Congress to address it either...

[lordsummerisle]

11. More info

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmkab8/the-trump-administration-has-secretly-launched-an-anti-weed-committee