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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts) Tue Nov 14, 2017, 05:25 PM Nov 2017

He's getting gang-pummeled over perjury, and yet he still has time to crusade against legal weed.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/sessions-weed-not-as-bad-as-heroin-but-still-illegal/

While Attorney General Jeff Sessions may have been persuaded that marijuana is not as dangerous as heroin, those harboring hopes for federal concessions on weed legalization shouldn’t bank on his support.

Speaking at a congressional hearing on Tuesday, Sessions stated that the Obama-era guidelines on cannabis remain intact, meaning the drug is illegal on the federal level even though a number of states have voted to legalize it for recreational use.

"Our policy is the same, really, fundamentally as the Holder-Lynch policy, which is that the federal law remains in effect and a state can legalize marijuana for its law enforcement purposes but it still remains illegal with regard to federal purposes," Forbes reported Sessions as saying, referring to previous attorney generals and their policy.

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“I realize this may be an unfashionable belief in a time of growing tolerance of drug use. But too many lives are at stake to worry about being fashionable,” he said in a speech on combating crime.

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He's getting gang-pummeled over perjury, and yet he still has time to crusade against legal weed. (Original Post) Miles Archer Nov 2017 OP

a fucking idiot gopiscrap Nov 2017 #1

He really needs to smoke weed, may make him a better person.lol SummerSnow Nov 2017 #2

Don't forget, he was a Senator maxsolomon Nov 2017 #3

ok i guess i will be a criminal again! samnsara Nov 2017 #4

Weed chocolate chip cookies Iliyah Nov 2017 #5

Does Sessions own or partly own a pharmaceutical company? Doreen Nov 2017 #6

Let me get this straight... jmowreader Nov 2017 #7

gopiscrap

(23,768 posts)

1. a fucking idiot

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Tue Nov 14, 2017, 05:27 PM

Nov 2017

he probably wishes he could go back to Alabama and launder his white sheet so he can night riding to help his pal Roy!

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)

2. He really needs to smoke weed, may make him a better person.lol

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Tue Nov 14, 2017, 05:30 PM

Nov 2017

He hates weed but probably watches child porn.

maxsolomon

(33,467 posts)

3. Don't forget, he was a Senator

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Tue Nov 14, 2017, 05:33 PM

Nov 2017

He can lie about any topic, for as long as required. He has skills.

We have been tolerating the fuck out of Alcohol since Prohibition was repealed.

samnsara

(17,665 posts)

4. ok i guess i will be a criminal again!

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Tue Nov 14, 2017, 05:33 PM

Nov 2017

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)

5. Weed chocolate chip cookies

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Tue Nov 14, 2017, 05:34 PM

Nov 2017

have some Sessions and mellow out.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)

6. Does Sessions own or partly own a pharmaceutical company?

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Tue Nov 14, 2017, 05:39 PM

Nov 2017

Have any stock in one? Does he get kick backs from them? If yes then we know why he wants to fight cannabis. He is not really doing it because he cares but because cannabis will hurt his income.

jmowreader

(50,594 posts)

7. Let me get this straight...

Reply to Doreen (Reply #6)

Tue Nov 14, 2017, 06:21 PM

Nov 2017

If cannabis is legalized, no pharmaceutical company would ever sell marijuana. I think not.

Got news for you, Doreen: Pharmaceutical companies are in the business of making money. And a big pharmaceutical company has resources a small grower does not.

An example of what a pharm company COULD do if weed was legal:

There are over 100 known cannabinoids in marijuana. One of them is Cannabichromene, or CBC. It's not a hallucinogen - most of them aren't - but it has pain-killing properties, it's an antiinflammatory, it's got antidepressant effects and they've seen anti-tumor effects from it. A pot plant that produced mostly CBC and little if any THC would be very useful to the medical profession, but it would be a disaster for the recreational pot industry. They are already bioengineering tobacco plants to produce medicine; why not cannabis?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabichromene

The people who have the most to lose from legal cannabis are the distillers.

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