To help Idaho, Otter wants Trump to crack down on states with liberal marijuana laws

[workinclasszero]

To help Idaho, Otter wants Trump to crack down on states with liberal marijuana laws
By Rocky Barker February 16, 2017 8:31 AM

Idaho Republicans stand united against most federal mandates from Washington, D.C., especially when Democrats are in control. But when Republicans take control of the federal strings of power, this authority seems less ominous.

Idaho Gov. Butch Otter showed this shift in a Jan. 30 letter to President Donald Trump. He wrote that he looked forward to the closer collaboration with federal agencies than he experienced during the Obama years.

And he sought more flexibility from a host of programs, from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Department of Veterans Affairs. But he specifically urged Trump to use the full power of the federal government against neighboring states that have legalized marijuana.

“Among the most pressing concerns facing Idaho, both from the criminal and public health standpoints, is the utter lack of consistency displayed by the Obama administration in enforcement of federal marijuana laws,” Otter wrote. “In that respect, Idaho is a virtual island of compliance, and we are paying the price.”

http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/letters-from-the-west/article133079199.html

[dubyadiprecession]

1. Many of those Idaho republicans that voted for that potato head..

want liberal marijuana laws.

So cranky, old, out of step GOP governor's better watch their steps.

[sagetea]

2. Indeed!!!

If you go to the dispensaries right over the border to Oregon, everybody there has Idaho plates, lol!! Even the sheriff of Payette County issued a LTTE stating that they will not prosecute under 28 grams.

sage

[Calculating]

5. The war on weed is an EPIC failure honestly

I mean somebody can go onto the dark web, pay some bitcoins, and have a pack of grade A cannabis delivered right to their doorstep. The war is lost, has been lost for decades, and will just be lost worse in the future. END IT!
It's just welfare for big prison, big pharma, big alcohol and big law enforcement.

[2naSalit]

3. But, but all that private prison space...

http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/idahos-last-private-prison/Content?oid=3883909

They have a terrible track record but some think he's been getting kickback from them.

[workinclasszero]

7. Yup the republican owners of private prisons

Are losing big money on legal pot.

[Calculating]

4. The likely suspect

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Old Republican guy.

[Rex]

6. What an out of touch, piece of garbage. Like MOST of the GOP, lost in the woods.

Of COURSE he wants to make the working class miserable with his control freak habits.

[2naSalit]

8. And then

adaptation occurs so he has to keep looking for new ways to be an embarrassment to the species.