As if our alleged president, Donald Trump, and his administration don’t have anything better to do… Now, they are preparing to go after legal marijuana users. This isn’t going to go well for them at the polls, as voters’ support to legalize marijuana is at an all-time high.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is very much against marijuana legalization. Critics are concerned that the Justice Department’s report will link marijuana use to violent crime, which has never been proven.
The Hill reports:
“Sessions sent a memo in April updating the U.S. Attorney’s Offices and Department of Justice Department (DOJ) component heads on the work of the task force, which he said would be accomplished through various subcommittees. In the memo, Sessions said he has asked for initial recommendations no later than July 27.”
Inimai Chettiar, the director of the Brennan Center’s Justice Program, said:
“The task force revolves around reducing violent crime and Sessions and other DOJ officials have been out there over the last month and explicitly the last couple of weeks talking about how immigration and marijuana increases violent crime.”
Law enforcement officials don’t agree with the Justice Department’s opinions of marijuana usage. Ronal Serpas, the former superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department who co-chairs Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and Incarceration, said:
“From a practitioner’s point of view, marijuana is not a drug that doesn’t have some danger to it, but it’s not the drug that’s driving violent crime in America.”
He added:
“That’s not the drug with which we see so much death and destruction on the streets of America. Crack and powdered cocaine, heroin and opioids are where we’re seeing people die on street corners fighting over territory or control.”
President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are taking on a pointless vendetta against marijuana users. Don’t they have plenty of better things to do?
Check out this highly informative talk about the future of marijuana under the Trump Administration:
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