Say Goodbye to Legalized Marijuana in Trump's America

[workinclasszero]

Say Goodbye to Legalized Marijuana in Trump's America
Trump's Attorney General Jeff Sessions is almost certainly coming for your weed.
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Despite the growing body of hard scientific evidence showing Marijuana is not only not a dangerous drug, but potentially a game changing plant with extraordinary medicinal properties, political dinosaurs are still opposed to its legality in America.

While Donald Trump has previously come out in favor of drug legalization (although that was over 20 years ago) and was noncommittal on reversing marijuana legalization at the state level, his appointment of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General of the United States indicates pot smokers could be in for a rude awakening.

http://thedailybanter.com/2016/11/goodbye-legalized-marijuana-trumps-america/

[ghostsinthemachine]

1. Hope, Obama's walk off is

Rescheduling as is the rumor today.

[eShirl]

3. let it be so

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. Couldn't those cretins restore the scheduling?

[Calculating]

14. Trump himself would need to do that

And he's said that it should be a state rights issue. Obama pushing to get it descheduled would keep Sessions from going 'full Nixon' on legal cannabis states.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. Trump says a lot of things. He is not to be trusted. Sad but true.

[leftofcool]

2. As well as medicare, pell grants and a few other essentials

[Bettie]

5. Social Security, the minimum wage

protections that keep workplaces safe for workers, highways (roads in general) you can drive on without paying tolls, oh, the list is so long.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. If Trump can figure out how HE can make money from it,

it will be legalized everywhere, and sold at a premium price in gold-wrapped packages with the TRUMP name on it in the largest possible letters.

[TeamPooka]

6. States rights only count for abortion. #GOPrules nt

[workinclasszero]

8. Bingo

[Initech]

10. And guns. Don't forget the guns!

[TeamPooka]

18. That's 2nd Amendment, not state's rights.

[Initech]

9. Great. They won't come for guns but they will come for our bongs!

Big government much?

[workinclasszero]

11. No shit right?

[Cha]

12. The AG can take it away from the states who legalized it?

That's gonna kill Colorado etc.. they're making big bucks off that. Not to mention all who get to reap the benefits of weed.

I sense Rebellion.. black market mj

[Calculating]

13. Maybe or maybe not

I doubt Trump would just let Sessions try to "shut it all down". Trump himself said it should be a state rights issue. It would likely lose Trump a lot of support. Keep in mind the majority of the country backs legalization. Liberals would all just point and say "See, this is what happens when you elect conservatives. So much for respecting state rights huh?".

Aside from that, I think the legalization movement is a bit too big to just 'shut down' now. The feds have bigger fish to fry and probably don't have the resources to go after tens of thousands of legal cannabis businesses.

[HughBeaumont]

16. Some actually thought Trump would be their champion in this arena.

Turbo-wingnuts aren't historically in the legalization camp and frequently demonized pot itself.

I'm not even getting where such logic took root.

[Calculating]

17. It's probably because Hillary never gave much support to legalization

And her running mate wasn't exactly a champion for the cause either. He's pretty bad on the issue and has an F rating from NORML. This was a large part of why I hated the guy.
http://marijuanapolitics.com/tim-kaine-marijuana-pain-hillarys-prohibitionist-vp-pick/
Tim Kaine’s regressive and repressive views and votes on marijuana recently earned him into a “hall of shame” over at StopTheDrugWar.com. Just last month, they consolidated NORML’s congressional scorecard, and displayed the names of 26 current US senators to whom they have given an “F” rating on marijuana prohibition. Unsurprisingly, only four were Democrats; unfortunately, one of those four prohibitionists is Tim Kaine. He recently said:

"I wouldn’t vote for a law at the federal or state level that would decriminalize marijuana."

The only GOOD candidate for legalization was Sanders....