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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will reportedly rescind the Cole Memo (DoJ), effectively ending the moratorium on enforcing cannabis prohibition in states where it has been legalized:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions will roll back an Obama-era policy that gave states leeway to allow marijuana for recreational purposes.
Two sources with knowledge of the decision confirmed to The Hill that Sessions will rescind the so-called Cole memo, which ordered U.S. attorneys in states where marijuana has been legalized to deprioritize prosecution of marijuana-related cases.
The Associated Press first reported the decision.
Sessions, a vocal critic of marijuana legalization, has hinted for months that he would move to crack down on the growing cannabis market.
Republican Senator Cory Gardner says he will hold up the confirmation process for DoJ nominees:
Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) threatened on Thursday to start holding up the confirmation process for White House Justice Department nominees unless Attorney General Jeff Sessions reverses a decision to roll back a policy allowing legalized recreational use of marijuana in some states.
Gardner said in a series of tweets that Sessions had told him before he was confirmed by the Senate that he would not change an Obama-era policy that discouraged federal prosecutors from pursuing marijuana-related offenses in states where the substance had been legalized. Colorado is one of those states.
[...] The Justice Department's reversal of the Cole memo on Thursday came three days after California's new law allowing recreational marijuana use went into effect.
Other politicians have reacted strongly to the news.
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4/20: The Third Time's Not the Charm
Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War
According to Gallup, American Support for Cannabis Legalization is at an All-Time High
Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis
Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California
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(Score: 3, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Thursday January 04 2018, @10:35PM (15 children)
Make America Great Again!
Sorry, I don't think we're allowed to make Obama president again.
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Thursday January 04 2018, @10:44PM (14 children)
Obama had to deal with too much shit. Can we get the Clinton years back?
"Blockchain" is already the new ".com", after all.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by DannyB on Thursday January 04 2018, @10:45PM (3 children)
I never dreamed, in my worst nightmares that I would say this, but . . .
I would be GLAD to have George W Bush back at this point.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday January 04 2018, @10:53PM (2 children)
I wouldn't.
Trump is an idiot, but he hasn't started 2 wars yet. He's working on the deficit and trouncing US international standing, like W.
But Trump wasn't handed a US at peak power and turned it into a declining empire. A self-centered ignorant fool, not a crazy destructive maniac ...
Looks good for the R side, doesn't it? Comparing the last two presidents from each side...
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @11:40PM (1 child)
By work on the deficit - you mean making a massive increase in the deficit right?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Thursday January 04 2018, @11:45PM
Obviously, as a parallel to W turning budget surpluses and shrinking debt (bipartisan-voted, Clinton-signed) into deficits, even before he started his two unbudgeted wars...
The same people who were hollering at Obama's Keynesian stimulus in the midst of the Great Recession just voted a $1,500,000,000,000.00 extra-deficit tax plan.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @11:42PM (9 children)
Really? That's what you want?
More of Slick Willie's Neoliberalism?
Bill Clinton's Five Major Achievements Were Longstanding GOP Objectives [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [truth-out.org]
To find someone that wasn't Neoliberal, you'd have to go back to LBJ--or to Ike (see graphic link, below), just to be sure.
Now, it would have been interesting to see where Jack Kennedy would have taken US if he hadn't gotten his head blown off by the CIA.
OTOH, that trust-fund baby had already signed a giant tax cut for the super-rich. [aquilafunds.com]
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday January 04 2018, @11:51PM (2 children)
Hell, I'd probably be a Republican by now if they hadn't been hijacked by the nutjobs.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @01:08AM (1 child)
There are only 2 kinds of people who vote for Repugs:
The rich and the stupid who will vote against their own best interests.
For over a century, the mantra of the GOP has been
"Make the rich richer and screw everyone else in order to do that."[1]
N.B. Ike was a temporary stay from that.
(His brother Edgar was a full-on Reactionary.)
[1] The GOP has learned to include enough red herrings in their platform to hornswoggle the gullible (abortion, immigration, guns).
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @02:40AM
How the GOP Tax Cut Will Also Shrink Your Paycheck (while making the rich richer) [alternet.org]
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bob_super on Friday January 05 2018, @12:01AM (3 children)
Let's be reasonable, shall we? The world has changed a bit since LBJ, 50 years ago. Would you like to #MAGA, too?
While some of Clinton' policies have the consequences we know (hindsight blah blah), I wouldn't mind to get back to a world where everybody respects (didn't say "likes") the almighty-imperfect-but-mostly-benevolent-when-benefitting US, and the biggest distraction to watching people's income AND assets go up is whether the smooth guy in charge banged an ugly girl.
The late 90s weren't perfect, but they sure beat the 21st century...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @01:19AM
Yeah, like I said: It's become more Neoliberal.
Apparently, you like good manufacturing jobs being exported.
Clinton'[s] policies
The big giant one was NAFTA.
Did I mention jobs being exported?
{checks} Yeah, I just did.
(The place where I was working sent all product lines that weren't DoD-related to Tijuana.)
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @05:00AM (1 child)
Great, more DMCA bullshit, drug wars, and interventions overseas. Why do you want that neoliberal back? The interventions were obviously unjust even back then, so it isn't just hindsight.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @06:31AM
The alternatives then (as now) were right-wing and ultra right-wing. Yeah, given those possibilities he went right-wing. There is no liberal party in the USA even though the population overwhelmingly prefers liberal policies... gays, drugs, healthcare, etc.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday January 05 2018, @07:10PM (1 child)
Jimmy Carter came before neoliberalism really took over the Democratic Party - that was Bill Clinton's doing more than anyone else (with his homie Al Gore's help).
The Republicans aren't neo-liberal, though, they're neo-conservative. The difference is what they do on hot-button social issues (e.g. abortion) while they're being bagmen for the super-rich.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @08:13PM
Carter deregulated interstate trucking and telecommunications.
Carter was a serious inflection point.
Nixon's trip to China opened a major door for offshoring.
I associate Neoconservatism with Imperialism and Militarism.
"World Policeman" is a major subheading.
"Regime change" is another.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]