President Trump Paves The Way To Legalize Marijuana Nationwide

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President Trump set to legalize marijuana nationwide

President Trump has announced plans to protect your right to consume legal marijuana, vetoing a memo issued by attorney Jeff Sessions.

According to Republican Senator Cory Gardner, Trump personally assured him that he will back congressional efforts to protect states’ rights to legal marijuana, effectively rendering Jeff Sessions’ attempts to outlaw the drug useless.

Nydailynews.com reports: The Sessions memo sought to reverse Obama-era policies on recreational pot and hinted at a federal crackdown.

“Late Wednesday, I received a commitment from the President that the Department of Justice’s rescission of the Cole memo will not impact Colorado’s legal marijuana industry,” Gardner said in a statement Friday. “Furthermore, President Trump has assured me that he will support a federalism-based legislative solution to fix this states’ rights issue once and for all.”

Gardner, whose state legalized recreational marijuana in 2014, threatened to block all Justice Department nominees after Sessions’ January memo. In light of Trump’s phone call, the senator said he has had a change of heart.

“Because of these commitments, I have informed the administration that I will be lifting my remaining holds on Department of Justice nominees,” Gardner said.

Sessions did not react publically to the development, but a source familiar with the matter told the Daily News that the Justice Department had not been consulted before Trump’s phone call.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed Gardner’s statement.

“We’re always consulting Congress about issues, including states rights, of which the president is a firm believer and the statement that the senator put out earlier today is accurate,” Sanders told reporters at the White House Friday.

Sessions has been a staunch opponent of marijuana legalization throughout his political career.

The 71-year-old Alabama native was blocked from a federal judgeship because an African-American colleague testified that he once joked that he thought the Ku Klux Klan was “OK” until he “found out they smoked pot.”

12 Comments

  1. blowing smokescreens to serve pop cults of pot heads who ,lets be honest , now will just lose a lucrative cash crop for personal profits and the government will takeover the racket now that its all been normalized And they will pass the queer baton or queen’s baton to one of their bosom buddies or bum chums too .And I dont mean that in any way disparaging either Just truthful.

    • “Let’s be honest,” OK. You’re alright then w simple marijuana possession being deemed legally, more reprehensible than that of an adult sexing an infant, toddler and child? For it still is, in many states.

  2. Not a toker but id say about time.. The next step is too vigorously arrest and fine any that get caught driving under the influence of weed the same as alcohol.. Keep the drunks and stoners off the roads

    • How will they produce evidence that the driver is actually stoned?It can show up on a test up to a year after toking. Also, several studies have produced results which said that stoned drivers are much better drivers than drunk ones, they dont make such rash decisions and generally drive slower and more cautiously. And what about those who need to take CBD oil? They aren’t stoned but it probably shows up on a test. Not saying we should drive stoned, but passing along some facts to think about.

      • No idea, that is up to law enforcement to figure out. Bad enough we have to deal with distracted , drunk and now possibly stoned fools on the highways that cant drive to begin with never mind impaired. LOL

      • YES THEY ARE BETTER DRIVERS ….

        NOT FAIR I SAY NOT FAIR
        I used to enjoy driving around stoned. .forgetting to turn my lights on and forgetting to indicate.. and driving really really slow in the fast lane….. and stopping at green lights and trying to roll a cigarette and keeping dropping it in my lap and forgetting to put my seatbelt on and a host of other stuff….. They have taken the fun out of driving… NOT FAIR I SAY NOT FAIR….

      • Why would you even ask such a stupid question.. I swear some off the posters here like you just got off the bus and left what luggage they had upstairs in the last row

    • You should be more concerned w the distracted drivers – texting, those leaving happy hour and those on legal pharmaceuticals or actual heroin.

      • Im concerned with all distracted drivers and those on legal drugs, pot, meth , alcohol, putting on make up , whacking their weenie and those driving in fear… PERIOD.. maybe you should be concerned too

    • I used to enjoy driving around stoned. .forgetting to turn my lights on and forgetting to indicate.. and driving really really slow in the fast lane….. and stopping at green lights and trying to roll a cigarette and keeping dropping it in my lap and forgetting to put my seatbelt on and a host of other stuff….. They have taken the fun out of driving… NOT FAIR I SAY NOT FAIR….

  3. Oh ffs who cares… it is all grown under lights with chemicals nowadays…. you might as well take a hand full of pharma pills ..same type of stone chemical stone…. this is a smoke and mirrors article.. there are more important things at hand… like starting these 3 world wars we have been promised for so very fucking long now….. I am taking bets on which of the 3 wars will start first email me with your wager ….

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