AP: Sessions to end policy of federal nonintervention in state legal weed

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Sessions won't be doing anything wrt cannabis, anyway. He might as well be grandpa Simpson yelling at the clouds.

http://kdvr.com/2018/01/04/u-s-attorney-for-colorado-status-quo-on-marijuana-prosecutions/

Trump can fire Sessions if he wants but it seems unlikely that the Senate will confirm any nominee who doesn't swear to keep their hands off the Mueller investigation. It won't take more than a couple of GOP Senators to make it that way.
Unless President Trump uses a recess appointment to do it. It's not as if the Senate Majority leader would stop it from happening.
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-sessions-what-recess-appointment-643102

Maybe Pruitt?
 

ch33zw1z

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Sessions won't be doing anything wrt cannabis, anyway. He might as well be grandpa Simpson yelling at the clouds.

http://kdvr.com/2018/01/04/u-s-attorney-for-colorado-status-quo-on-marijuana-prosecutions/

Trump can fire Sessions if he wants but it seems unlikely that the Senate will confirm any nominee who doesn't swear to keep their hands off the Mueller investigation. It won't take more than a couple of GOP Senators to make it that way.
I hope the old relic tries anyways....america is changing, and gripping harder to propoganda, stereotypes, and outright lies is just going to show the younger generations why they should stop voting for people stuck in the past
 
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Not arbitrary. Just enough for personal use. I don't think you would need to grow enough to supply the block with pot. Anything more than that you would need a license to grow and distribute.
of course. time will tell whats presented. do you think this should be more federal regulated, or states do as they want similar to alcohol?

also, personal usage can vary, and the ingestion method changes all of this as well.

states involved in MMJ or RMJ are aleeady tackling these challenges, so while I see someone like Sessions who will try to nuke it wherever possible, there is science behind both issues.
 

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of course. time will tell whats presented. do you think this should be more federal regulated, or states do as they want similar to alcohol?

also, personal usage can vary, and the ingestion method changes all of this as well.

states involved in MMJ or RMJ are aleeady tackling these challenges, so while I see someone like Sessions who will try to nuke it wherever possible, there is science behind both issues.

States or Feds?

I think it should be handled just like liquor where we have the ATF and then each state also has it own regulations that are in line with the federal laws.

I do not agree with making it into candy and cookies etc... There are too many children that are getting exposed to it.

https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/09/edible-marijuana-kids/

http://www.complex.com/life/2017/11/doctors-claim-colorado-baby-first-human-die-marijuana-overdose

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marijuana-cookie-death-colorado-warning-labels-cdc/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...deal-but-theyre-wrong/?utm_term=.7b56712371db
 
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Not arbitrary. Just enough for personal use. I don't think you would need to grow enough to supply the block with pot. Anything more than that you would need a license to grow and distribute.

Nicely vague. I laid out the provisions of A64. Is that reasonable, or not?
 

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Nicely vague. I laid out the provisions of A64. Is that reasonable, or not?

I would say that it seems fair enough for the most part.
3 lbs of dried and trimmed weed seems to be a lot for personal use.
I also don't agree with being allowed to distribute it with no documentation whatsoever. Yes, I know that it will happen anyway even to states that it is still illegal.
 

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I would say that it seems fair enough for the most part.
3 lbs of dried and trimmed weed seems to be a lot for personal use.
I also don't agree with being allowed to distribute it with no documentation whatsoever. Yes, I know that it will happen anyway even to states that it is still illegal.

Constitutionally protected anonymity for personal growers anchors legalization in ways nothing else possibly can. It totally subverts efforts to bring back prohibition or to limit consumption via licensing schemes & price manipulation.

It's a free the weed kind of thing, something you probably can't appreciate at all. We intend to make adult cannabis consumption into no big deal at all.
 

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Constitutionally protected anonymity for personal growers anchors legalization in ways nothing else possibly can. It totally subverts efforts to bring back prohibition or to limit consumption via licensing schemes & price manipulation.

It's a free the weed kind of thing, something you probably can't appreciate at all. We intend to make adult cannabis consumption into no big deal at all.

Free the weed indeed... It should be a controlled substance due to its impact on children. There have been deaths associated with MJ overdoses and sharp increases in emergency room cases. I know kids will be kids and want to try out dads MJ Stash...
 

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Free the weed indeed... It should be a controlled substance due to its impact on children. There have been deaths associated with MJ overdoses and sharp increases in emergency room cases. I know kids will be kids and want to try out dads MJ Stash...

o_O

Do you support alcohol being a non-controlled substance?
 

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Free the weed indeed... It should be a controlled substance due to its impact on children. There have been deaths associated with MJ overdoses and sharp increases in emergency room cases. I know kids will be kids and want to try out dads MJ Stash...
There have been a hand full of deaths in the entire world due to mj overdose and none of them have been children. You have to seriously work at it to overdose. Yes, it should be kept out of the hands of children like cigarettes and alcohol.
 

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Free the weed indeed... It should be a controlled substance due to its impact on children. There have been deaths associated with MJ overdoses and sharp increases in emergency room cases. I know kids will be kids and want to try out dads MJ Stash...

You have seen a case where a human has died from a cannabis overdose?
 

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Free the weed indeed... It should be a controlled substance due to its impact on children. There have been deaths associated with MJ overdoses and sharp increases in emergency room cases. I know kids will be kids and want to try out dads MJ Stash...

Please. There's a whole lot of motivated reasoning behind claims of cannabis deaths. It really doesn't matter how cannabis enters the home because once it has then it's up to parents to control access like they do with a variety of other common household items too numerous to mention.

We seem to be doing fine regulating it much the same way we do alcohol.
 

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I cant imagine how bad things are in California right now with all the potheads running around all delusional and causing mayhem.
 

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I cant imagine how bad things are in California right now with all the potheads running around all delusional and causing mayhem.

Horrifying, ain't it?

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I would say that it seems fair enough for the most part.
3 lbs of dried and trimmed weed seems to be a lot for personal use.
I also don't agree with being allowed to distribute it with no documentation whatsoever. Yes, I know that it will happen anyway even to states that it is still illegal.
3lbs is a huge amount for 1 person or even a family.
 
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You have seen a case where a human has died from a cannabis overdose?
Does that include falling asleep at the wheel and crashing and causing multiple fatalities? Jeez and I'm pro-marijuana too. There's always a cost, there's always a price to pay.

The deaths are worth it to me, are they worth it to you?