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G_j

(40,366 posts)
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 01:41 PM Jul 2017

Trump's DOJ gears up for crackdown on marijuana

http://thehill.com/regulation/administration/343218-trumps-doj-gears-up-for-crackdown-on-marijuana

July 23, 2017 - 07:30 AM EDT

The Trump administration is readying for a crackdown on marijuana users under Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

President Trump’s Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety, led by Sessions, is expected to release a report next week that criminal justice reform advocates fear will link marijuana to violent crime and recommend tougher sentences for those caught growing, selling and smoking the plant.

Sessions sent a memo in April updating the U.S. Attorney’s Offices and Department of Justice Department (DOJ) component heads on the work of the task force, which he said would be accomplished through various subcommittees. In the memo, Sessions said he has asked for initial recommendations no later than July 27.

“Task Force subcommittees will also undertake a review of existing policies in the areas of charging, sentencing, and marijuana to ensure consistency with the Department's overall strategy on reducing violent crime and with Administration goals and priorities,” he wrote.
Criminal justice reform advocates fear Sessions’s memo signals stricter enforcement is ahead.

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NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
2. Hey Mueller et al. Please put Sessions under a prison soon, thanks, signed medicinal cannabis users
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 01:45 PM
Jul 2017

Cannabis saved my life and if it goes away, I'm in trouble.

hunter

(38,310 posts)
6. Then what? They stuff civil rights back into the bottle too?
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 02:02 PM
Jul 2017

Restore prohibition of alcohol?

Reinstitute slavery?

Reestablish monarchy where the king's word is law, no matter how despotic or insane that king is?

The War on Drugs has been a very lucrative business for both the racist authoritarian drug warriors, and the connected and protected gangsters selling the drugs. Sessions is part of that disgusting stew.


CakeGrrl

(10,611 posts)
8. Yes, when they can figure out how to do it.
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 03:12 PM
Jul 2017

All of these "reforms" are nothing more than pretenses to reduce the number of minorities in society at large, including removal from the voter rolls.

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is a CONFEDERATE. His middle namesake is a Confederate Civil War general.

He's been opposed by no less than Coretta Scott King as anti-Civil Rights. He was installed at the DOJ to advance the white supremacist causes of Bannon and Miller.

And don't think that Putin isn't aware of and supportive of this.

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