On the same day Donald Trump was elected president, four states legalized marijuana for recreational use, while four others legalized or expanded access to medical marijuana. Though the candidate once said he favors legalizing all drugs and, during campaign season, he opined in favor of states’ rights, he’s also appeared to reserve the right to intervene in state decisions he disagrees with. “But, you know, they have got a lot of problems going on right now in Colorado”.
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Asian Americans Advancing Justice issued the following statement on Friday.
Donald Trump’s choice of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general has mystified many onlookers, including New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat. That has supporters of recreational use in several states concerned that Sessions as attorney general will order USA attorneys to take a hard stance, enforcing federal pot laws even where states have voted to allow it.
According to a report by Arcview Market Research and New Frontier, the legal United States cannabis market will reach almost $23 billion within four years.
But a review of his record in the Senate indicates he will likely push for corporate indictments, instead of settling for fines, and may focus on putting more executives in prison, lawyers who specialize in white-collar crime said. In 1986, Sessions won the distinction of being the first nominee in 48 years to be denied Senate confirmation to the federal bench when racially loaded comments he made came to light in his confirmation hearing.
While numerous thousands of attorneys working for the Department are top-notch, and continue to investigate and prosecute crimes that the average citizen would understand as constituting crimes that properly should consume the time and resources of Uncle Sam – complex white collar fraud cases, and multi-state and global drug cases, for example – more and more, those attorneys are being directed by the Attorney General to involve themselves in matters of quite a different nature. “It is not amusing, it’s not something to laugh about… and to send that message with clarity that good people don’t smoke marijuana”, he said.
Department attorneys had decided the evidence was not strong enough to warrant continued prosecution, but Sessions accused the Justice Department of playing politics and failing “to ensure that guilty parties did not disenfranchise other voters in the future”, as he put it during an April 2010 Senate hearing.
Since being tapped by President-elect Trump for Attorney General, Sen. Trump on Sunday named Republican Party chief Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and conservative media owner Bannon as his top presidential strategist, two men who represent opposite ends of the unsettled GOP.
“We have to understand that most Muslims do not adhere to this extreme ideology, but there is nothing wrong to refuse admittance to those who distance themselves from our values”. It would certainly be controversial if Sen.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. speaks to media at Trump Tower, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016, in NY. In announcing his challenge to Pelosi, Ryan says, “Under our current leadership, Democrats have been reduced to our smallest congressional minority since 1929”.
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What’s at stake if the war on drugs were fully revived? “We’re talking social justice, we’re talking medicine, we’re talking jobs, we’re talking tax revenue, we’re talking school construction”. We are not to draw any conclusions from any of the facts enumerated above because we don’t know him personally, and thus, none of us is in a position to judge. Do we really want to ruin more young people’s lives over a joint? It could be assumed that, as the U.S. Attorney General, he will apply the same thoughtful dedication toward Hillary Clinton’s scandals. Laws providing for the deportation of people who entered the US illegally and later committed crimes.
