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White House Spokesman Predicts More Federal Action Against Marijuana

This might be what we need to end the war for drugs for good. Every overreach can backfire. The courts could easily rule that legalization falls under the 10th, preventing the feds from using their gestapo tactics.

The DEA's days are numbered. Even red states are legalizing and there's a bipartisan marijuana caucus that just formed. 71% oppose exactly the action that Spicer is threatening
 
Porkuloss said:
O'Reily is talking out his a** with this: [Bill O’Reilly said legalized marijuana is a $1 billion industry in Colorado and claimed all the “dealers” and “pushers” are going there to “load up on it” and then “zoom around the country selling it.” He then asked Trump if it concerns him, to which Trump responded: “That’s a real problem.”]

I don't doubt Trump/Sessions will double down on the massive failure of prohibition. It will continue to fail and cost us all.
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This is indeed looking like a 2nd prohibition attempt. Before recently, the states and the public were complicit, but that's changed dramatically in recent years
 
Henrin said:
The punishment would be simple. Since the taxes earned from the sale of pot was illegally obtained they will be required to give up the same amount to the federal government.
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Sure just as soon as trump pays taxes himself
 
blackjack50 said:
Well that should be part of the regulations. It isn't like we don't have regulations for other crops in America. How or why would it be different for Pot?


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Regulations is one thing. Sending in goons from the feds to arrest anyone and seize their assets even under suspicion is another

The drug war has never been anything but a gestapo state. Very rarely do they bust kingpins and gangsters
 
MaggieD said:
I'm really surprised Trump is looking to crack down on recreational marijuana use. That's disappointing. I don't use it myself, but I think YOU should be able to. Illinois just legalized medical MJ. The form you sign when you enter the always-locked dispensary and purchase it reminds you that you are breaking Federal law.

If it were a perfect world and I were in charge, Congress itself would act and decriminalize it. There are SO much bigger fish to fry.

We're just not used to politicians moving so quickly on their agenda. I wish there was a website that listed his campaign promises because it's pretty obvious to me he's working down a list and plans to move on all of it.
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legalize it, and tax it
 
Captain America said:
Well, don't feel alone. At the time of this posting, almost 24% of the people here agree with you. But, then again, 76% do not.

https://www.debatepolitics.com/polls/279713-trump-making-america-great-again.html
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Not bad for only one month on the job, clearly he is making an impact.

However, as I have stated many times any fair person would wait at least 100 days before trying to evaluate, so this poll is meaningless, it is more a representation of bias.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Not bad for only one month on the job, clearly he is making an impact.

However, as I have stated many times any fair person would wait at least 100 days before trying to evaluate, so this poll is meaningless, it is more a representation of bias.
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There is truth in that. Myself, I am still hoping for the best and praying for a miracle. Nothing would give more pleasure than to tell you that you were right along. But, so far.......... not looking too good.

I think it's 50/50. 50% bias and 50% observation.

I will give your post a like because it is a distinct possibility and because you are a good dude.
 
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Captain America said:
There is truth in that. Myself, I am still hoping for the best and praying for a miracle. Nothing would give more pleasure that to tell you that you were right along. But, so far.......... not looking too good.

I think it's 50/50. 50% bias and 50% observation.

I will give your post a like because it is a distinct possibility and because you are a good dude.
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Now see that's what I like about you, this basic decency and fairness that you insist upon practicing.

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Hawkeye10 said:
Now see that's what I like about you, this basic decency and fairness that you insist upon practicing.

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Yeah, some folks just take these differences in opinion and freak out about 'em. Though I have a deep relationship and sense of family with my friends here, I try not to let myself get too emotionally vested in anything anybody else says.

we can be as different as day is to night and still get along. We both share that trait. I think that is why we get along as well as we do. I would have no problem sitting down to a good dinner and refreshing libation with people like you. We ain't gotta agree.

Hell, even my wife and I don't hardly agree but I still get to play with her booby's now and again. :)
 
Seems like the only jobs that Trump has created so far is for lawyers. They're having a field day with him.
 
chromium said:
Regulations is one thing. Sending in goons from the feds to arrest anyone and seize their assets even under suspicion is another

The drug war has never been anything but a gestapo state. Very rarely do they bust kingpins and gangsters
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I suspect that many of the kingpins actually work for or with the CIA or DEA. Pablo Escobar's son has recently written a book about how his padre worked for the CIA. Truth is stranger than fiction.
 
countryboy said:
Wait, " dealers and pushers" are traveling all the way to Colorado, to pay full retail price for marijuana, and then " zooming around the country" to sell it. Yeah, that's believable. :rolleyes:
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They do, indeed. But not across the country...just the next state. Lots of people from Utah drive to Wyoming just to buy beer that isn't 3% to bring back...and the cops watch and wait for them at the border. So if people will do that for beer it seems only logical they would do it for pot, too.


I don't know if it's true but I've heard that the Feds can't bust someone for pot unless they're on federal land..or smoking in public. So tourists and campers on BLM land, beware.
 
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I just bought 7 grams yesterday, so far there is no mad rush to buy, so much so that prices are still on their long slide down. I started out paying $18 a gram, yesterday I paid $9 for really good stuff, I have seen lessor quality go for $5.

I am thinking of laying in a supply, not so much because I think the stores will close, but because I expect prices to go high if people in the supply chain start to get concerned about the Feds coming after them. The bud tenders at my store insist that if I buy a $3 humidity control pak that I can store it for one year with minimal degradation in quality or strength.
 
Moot said:
They do, indeed. But not across the country...just the next state. Lots of people from Utah drive to Wyoming just to buy beer that isn't 3% to bring back...and the cops watch and wait for them at the border. So if people will do that for beer it seems only logical they would do it for pot, too.


I don't know if it's true but I've heard that the Feds can't bust someone for pot unless they're on federal land..or smoking in public. So tourists and campers on BLM land, beware.
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Not at all what I was referring to.
 
Article II, sec. 3 requires the President to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." The Controlled Substances Act is a federal law, and it lists marijuana in Schedule One--meaning that it has no officially recognized medical use. If most Americans disagree with that, let them pressure their elected representatives in Congress to amend the CSA. Until such time, though, Mr. Trump has a duty to enforce that law, whatever any state law may say to the contrary. See Gonzalez v. Raich.
 
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