Jeff Sessions personally asked Congress to let him prosecute medical marijuana providers
Source: Washington Post
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is asking congressional leaders to undo federal medical marijuana protections that have been in place since 2014, according to a May letter that became public Monday.
The protections, known as the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, prohibit the Justice Department from using federal funds to prevent certain states "from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession or cultivation of medical marijuana."
In his letter, first obtained by Tom Angell of Massroots.com and verified independently by The Washington Post, Sessions argued that the amendment would "inhibit [the Justice Department's] authority to enforce the Controlled Substances Act." He continues:
I believe it would be unwise for Congress to restrict the discretion of the Department to fund particular prosecutions, particularly in the midst of an historic drug epidemic and potentially long-term uptick in violent crime. The Department must be in a position to use all laws available to combat the transnational drug organizations and dangerous drug traffickers who threaten American lives.
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This whole thing is yet another Drumpf admin lie and distraction from the real purpose. Sessions is doing this to increase the jail population, pure and simple. In Co., opioid arrests are way way down because people use mj for pain relief and don't need Oxycontin. Prisons are nearly empty and Sessions just can't have that! His biggest bribes (err donations) are from the private prison industry and he's definitely carrying water for them. He wants Americans in jail so he can rack up the big $$. He cares nothing about the people, wait, yes he does. He hates young people, brown people and this also gives him a pretext for arresting and jailing them and BTW keep them from voting. It's a 2fer for the dictatorship.
