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Cattledog

(5,914 posts)
Fri May 12, 2017, 10:15 AM May 2017

Use weed? Sessions orders harshest charges for non violent users.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-issues-sweeping-new-criminal-charging-policy/2017/05/11/4752bd42-3697-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_sessions-7a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.61ec702435dd

Attorney General Jeff Sessions overturned the sweeping criminal charging policy of former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and directed his federal prosecutors Thursday to charge defendants with the most serious, provable crimes carrying the most severe penalties...

The Sessions memo marks the first significant criminal justice effort by the Trump administration to bring back the toughest practices of the drug war, which had fallen out of favor in recent years with a bipartisan movement to undo the damaging effects of mass incarceration.
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Use weed? Sessions orders harshest charges for non violent users. (Original Post) Cattledog May 2017 OP
Time for a mass smoke-in on the National Mall. MineralMan May 2017 #1
And if the wind is blowing just right flakey_foont May 2017 #8
Just when we need weed the most... Gidney N Cloyd May 2017 #2
Reefer and Republican Admins go hand-in-hand BeyondGeography May 2017 #4
I hate these fucking assholes. Initech May 2017 #3
Get rid of crook Sessions CountAllVotes May 2017 #5
Yes, the US definitely needs a larger prison population. Jim__ May 2017 #6
Say, I happen to know a few private companies that would Luz May 2017 #7
Beauregard needs a brownie crazycatlady May 2017 #9
Because how else will you put large numbers of black people in jail for no reason? wildeyed May 2017 #10

BeyondGeography

(39,374 posts)
4. Reefer and Republican Admins go hand-in-hand
Fri May 12, 2017, 10:26 AM
May 2017

Like Reagan would have been bearable without getting high and listening to Gil Scott-Heron.

Luz

(772 posts)
7. Say, I happen to know a few private companies that would
Fri May 12, 2017, 10:52 AM
May 2017

just love to build them. Heck, I'll bet Beauregard does too.

wildeyed

(11,243 posts)
10. Because how else will you put large numbers of black people in jail for no reason?
Fri May 12, 2017, 11:17 AM
May 2017

They are having a hard time getting people to even sit juries for minor weed offenses in my city.

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