Public Sessions Just Recriminalized Medical Cannabis

[Allele]

https://apnews.com/19f6bfec15a74733b40eaf0ff9162bfa

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rescinded an Obama-era policy that paved the way for legalized marijuana to flourish in states across the country, creating new confusion about enforcement and use just three days after a new legalization law went into effect in California.

President Donald Trump’s top law enforcement official announced the change Thursday. Instead of the previous lenient-federal-enforcement policy, Sessions’ new stance will instead let federal prosecutors where marijuana is legal decide how aggressively to enforce longstanding federal law prohibiting it.

(I sure wish journos would stop calling it "pot", btw)

This old fart who doesn't even know what it is or does, has just gone against state rights and has repealed the existing (imperfect) protections against the feds raiding legal Cannabis users and dispensaries.

As someone who is in a great deal of pain on a continuous basis, who cannot sleep without it, and who cannot take NSAIDS or tolerate opioids, I object!!

Add to this that they keep trying to schedule Kratom, the only other Tx I can use for pain--which btw makes me more alert, not high, at the dose that works for me--this is disastrous.

I am SO SICK of grumpy ancient arrogant white men trying to impose their ignorance and hatred on everyone else.

 

[James]

Will cannabinoids with the THC removed be legal as they are in the UK, though I think large pharmaceutical companies would prefer that any alternative for their products were removed from the market soonest and have the political lobbying budget that generally prevails.

 

[Luther Blissett]

Black budgets don't pay for themselves.

See also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politics_of_Heroin_in_Southeast_Asia

 

[Allele]

Yep, you have both IDed two of sessions' puppetmasters, @Luther Blissett and @James .
Also to benefit are his for-profit prison friends:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...a3817ac21a5_story.html?utm_term=.30a190bcf7a2

 

[cbdpower]

Here in switzerland we have low thc products (below 1% THC socalled CBD) legal since 1 year

 

[perchance dreamer]

I think in the U.S. that eventually money will win out over moralizing. States like Colorado and Washington have made tons of money from their legal cannabis.

 

[Little Bluestem]

States like Colorado and Washington have made tons of money from their legal cannabis.

But do they have the lobbying power of Big Pharma?

 

[Little Bluestem]

Yep, you have both IDed two of sessions' puppetmasters, @Luther Blissett and @James .

I'm sorry, but this just hit me. @Luther Blissett and @James are Sessions' puppetmasters? Jerk him around good guys!

 

[Luther Blissett]

But do they have the lobbying power of Big Pharma?

I think in the long run they will have. It's a bit of a vote loser isn't it?

 

[Allele]

I think in the U.S. that eventually money will win out over moralizing. States like Colorado and Washington have made tons of money from their legal cannabis.

It's more than moralizing. Despite the Obama-Era "protections", many state-legal dispensaries and grow operations have been raided.
They seize assets (including cash), throw a bunch of people into private prisons, and even raid data bases for members' info.