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Politics

FAQ: What We Know About Jeff Sessions’ DOJ Action Against Legal Cannabis

Ben AdlinJanuary 4, 2018
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Then-Sen. Jeff Sessions speaks with reporters after a meeting with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and the Senate Republican Conference on July 7, 2016. (Alex Brandon/AP)
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday that he is rescinding the Cole memo, an Obama-era Department of Justice guideline that set a policy of federal noninterference with state-legal cannabis. While the move itself doesn’t trigger any immediate legal action, it’s a sign that the federal prosecutors may intend to ramp up legal actions against cannabis businesses in legal states.

We’ve tried to answer a few of the most common questions about what Sessions’ move might mean. Do you have others? Let us know in the comments. We’ll be updating this page as the situation develops.

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Does This Mean the End of Legal Cannabis?

No. Take a deep breath. The sky is not falling. Sessions’ action today rescinds a Department of Justice policy guideline, not a law. Essentially, the move tells federal prosecutors across the country that DOJ no longer officially opposes them interfering with legal cannabis.

“I think this is an attempt to suppress the growth of the industry, not to kill us.”
Steve DeAngelo , Harborside co-founder

Worrisome? Absolutely. The end of legalization? Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

In Oakland, Harborside co-founder Steve DeAngelo, who in 2016 successfully fended off a yearslong federal enforcement action, said he sees Sessions’ move as a way to slow what’s been a rapid rollout of legal cannabis. “I don’t think this is a big deal,” he told Leafly. “I think this is an attempt to suppress the growth of the industry, not to kill us. It is more of a delaying tactic than a knife to our throat.”

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The Cole Memo: What Is It and What Does It Mean?

What Happens Next?

Most likely, nothing will happen immediately. While undoing the Cole memo opens the door to federal interference with state-legal cannabis programs, Sessions’ move itself doesn’t trigger any legal action.

If there is any sort of crackdown, the first actions would likely come from individual US attorneys, who oversee federal prosecutions in their respective jurisdictions. Their offices could file civil or criminal actions against state-legal cannabis businesses (or their landlords) in an effort to shutter the businesses.

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Why Is Sessions Doing This?

It’s no secret that the attorney general is opposed to cannabis. He’s derided its use in medical treatment and said that “good people don’t smoke marijuana.” He’s claimed that cannabis could make the national opioid epidemic worse despite evidence that opioid use actually decreases in legal states. But for the past year or so, Sessions has been more talk than action.

Part of the motivation behind his decision to rescind the Cole memo on Thursday could be to chill cannabis activity in state-legal markets. Sessions has formally criticized programs in adult-use states, yet legalization keeps stubbornly spreading, fueled by broad public support from liberals and conservatives alike. Las Vegas launched legal adult-use sales in July, and California opened adult-use retail stores to significant fanfare on New Year’s Day. Sessions may be trying to steal those states’ thunder.

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Are There Other Federal Protections?

For now, yes, but not many. The Rohrabacher–Blumenaur amendment, a provision included in a federal spending bill, currently prevents the Justice Department from spending resources to prosecute state-legal medical marijuana. But the measure doesn’t offer any cover for adult-use cannabis, and it’s only in place until later this month; Congress will need to renew that protection for it to continue. It’s possible, however, that Sessions’ reversal of the Cole memo could actually encourage congressional representatives to take further action to safeguard state-legal cannabis.

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What Can Be Done?

After last year, you’re tired of hearing this, but: Call your representatives in Congress! Tell them to support measures that protect states’ rights to regulate cannabis as they see fit. Encourage them to support renewing the Rohrabacher–Blumenauer amendment—and while you’re at it, tell them to expand its protections to adult-use cannabis. While federal legalization remains a controversial issue for many politicians to get behind, there’s significant public support for leaving regulation to the states.

Contact information for members of the Senate and House of Representatives is available online.

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Do State Officials Have to Hand Over Licensing Records?

Good question. Names of state-licensed cannabis companies, locations, and principal owners are already matters of public record. See: California’s Cannabis Control Bureau website. Any federal DEA agent can see the information just as easily as you or I can.

Leafly’s Peter Hecht put the question to San Francisco cannabis attorney Matt Kumin. Kumin said the Justice Department can indeed take advantage of public information on cannabis businesses, including licensing information, and can be expected to subpoena state tax and sales records on individual cannabis businesses, which are not public. 

“They may try that,” Kumin said. “You will likely see something like that end up in a court battle—because I don’t think California will cooperate with a subpoena. This is the United States of California vs. the United States of America…I think California is well down the road in opposition to federal policies here.”

Does This Affect Banking?

No, not directly. The US Treasury Department’s 2014 policy guidance on banks and credit unions that do business with cannabis-related companies remains unaffected by today’s Justice Department move, as far as we can tell. That guidance can be found here.

Leafly’s Cannabist Capitalist columnist, Alan Brochstein, reminded us this afternoon that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), which issued the guidance to banks, is part of the Treasury Department, not the Justice Department. Jeff Sessions has no say in Treasury policy.

Although the FinCEN guidelines remain in place, today’s move by the Justice Department will undoubtedly cause some financial institutions to take a hard look at their current politics and relationships with cannabis-related companies.

As of July 2017, FinCEN reported that 296 banks and 94 credit unions were providing banking services to marijuana-related businesses:

 

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  • MJB

    My friend told me Sessions has investments in the private prison industry. Legalizing cannabis would put a huge dent in profits. Anyone know if he is in fact connected to the private prison industry?

    • Sonny Cole

      yes he does .i looked it up on the computer,i found out he makes around $1,200 a year from his investment.he spends that much a year on ties.he makes very little money, the same as anyone else who has invested the same as he does.

      • ONowhere

        Yeah, but how much does the private prison racket give to Sessions for his nefarious political purposes?

      • Guy Foster

        in a few seconds
        His advisor Dupont has investment in UA drug screening and wants to screen all Americans as part of healthcare forcing lot smokers into rehab against their will. Crazy . Google “seessions advisor drug test”

        • lovingc

          Illegal search and seizure.The fourth amendment of the constitution of the united states.

      • Bob

        It’s not just direct income, it’s also a lot of issues such as monetary help getting elected, lobbying for positions in government, etc. That’s where most of these ant-American firms invest their money.

      • Mikon

        RIGHT NOW he makes little in the investment…. Because it’s public record and would look really bad helping his bottom line through his position. But I guarantee that he’s waiting for the big money for after he leaves office. THAT’S when the real payoff comes. He’ll be on Boards of Directors, pulling a fat salary for doing nothing, plus stock options. Same companies will be paying huge “speakers fees”, plus traveling expenses for 10-15 minute “speeches”. He’s playing the long game ,like every other senator and congressman who retires a multi-millionaire.

    • Guy Foster

      His advisor Dupont has investment in UA drug screening and wants to screen all Americans as part of healthcare forcing lot smokers into rehab against their will. Crazy . Google “seessions advisor drug test”

      • calvet11

        Dr. Dupont is an out of step pill pusher way way past his expiration date.

    • Mo Jo

      He has worked as an advisor and on the Board of three For Profit Prison companies. The FPP’s comprise a major share of his donations. This incest is why his constituents rejected him as a Federal Judge – because he is tainted goods with his own personal business agenda,. This is precisely why the Feds are now building more prisons to house illegal aliens that they previously deported – the more bodies Sessions can put in jail, the more $$$ he makes on the back-end.

    • Excuse me

      Apparently, legalizing cannabis would not put a huge dent in profits. In 2012, less than one percent of all incarcerations in the US were for possession. That was quoted from Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know. That was prior to any recreational legalization.

      • lovingc

        Incarcerations are just the tip of the iceberg, there are probation costs and forced rehabs and anything they can think of to make it more onerous. Also loss of drivers licenses and housing, schooling,jobs. They have it so screwed up they are just adding strength to criminal empires because that is the only way convicts can get by. The unjust removal of basically all of your rights.
        Push for legalization and removal of convictions and wiping the records clean of any drug arrests..

    • lovingc

      Rumor has it that he is being paid off by the pharmaceutical industry.

  • Paul Revere

    the article portends to say that the feds have power. I don’t see that. States and voters are at stake here.Any right not enumerated to the federal government falls to the states. the federal anti-cannabis laws will probably be defensed by the 10th amendment in some way. the showdown should’ve happened decades ago. But now we have to fight amendment by amendment

    • Austin

      The Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution unfortunately says that federal law TRUMPS state law…

      • lovingc

        Only in inter state commerce. intrastate commerce is out of the feds jurisdiction.

      • William

        It would be nice if the Constitution were not being obfuscated by so many; most of them lawyers. Read it with your heart as well as your mind, next time; remember what you felt in the 8th grade, upon reading such beautiful words; flawed, (3/5 of a person?) but none better. The Constitution and Bill of Rights are the words of foundation of the great idea called America. Don’t let them fade away…stand, resist, vote…run for something.

  • papaouiee

    Sessions needs to go; he’s still in the dark ages. Even obozo opposed federal interference form the states. If Sessions tries this stunt it should easily back fire on him and force the federal government to legalize it nationwide. Right now, its use, even where legal is only available to the rich or those that starve to afford it. Insurance will pay for all the pain pills Doctors want to write but will not pay for a natural way to ease pain. it’s the most ridiculous thing in the world. Washington has their heads so far up their cabooses, I doubt they ever know what light is.

  • Auryan

    Or how about we call our congressman and start a movement to make alcohol illegal again because of all the devastation it has caused for centuries as a highly addictive drug…..right? But what is really happening here is he is providing all the legal states to get extremely clear about how they are handling the transition to cannabis in those states. The illegal market is ‘supposedly’ alive and well. The Emerald Triangle of Northern CA is trashing ecosystems. Perhaps the feds can help clean that mess up.

    • calvet11

      And perhaps all the, soon to be out of work DEA ass clowns, can go to work on the border, North or South, don’t care just send them somewhere where they can’t do any more harm.

  • Henry DeFeo Sr

    If he is doing this to make money from the prison system, he should be arrested and tried! We the People voted yes for medical cannabis, not we the goverment! I was hit head on by a DRUNK driver and been taking pills since 88, 9 surgeries and canabis will help get me free from addiction!

  • Karol Hudson

    Yes: I do believe Trump has a mental problem, having
    appointed Session to be the Attorney General ???

    • calvet11

      Please, Trump is not mental, yes a mistake was made to install “little” Jeffy but Trump isn’t crazy.

      • Bob

        Trump is a horrible person, whether mentally ill or not. Go read up on his history, if you don’t believe it.

        • Ed Sargent

          I bet there are some horrible in you too ! But as I see it Trump don’t like Sessions and I predict he will be fired this year.

          • Bob

            Perhaps I have some horrible characteristics, like everyone else, but most of us didn’t actively keep African Americans from residing in our buildings, or praise Nazis and the KKK (btw, Sessions loves the KKK; racist all his life), or sign tax laws that are going to increase the deficit by $1.5 trillion while destroying the ability for the poor and lower middle class to have health care. That’s all on Trump. I’m still looking for a redeeming characteristic in him and not finding it. However, like you, I absolutely agree that Sessions was a horrible choice from the beginning and needs to be dumped.

          • William

            Yes; don’t forget Sessions quote: “I liked the KKK until I found out they smoked pot.”

        • P.J. Rafter

          He’s a crook and should be left in jail to rot, along with Sessions!

      • William

        Karol, Ummm, yes, he is…as noted by thousands of therapists, and clearly by his own words and lack of a touch in reality. Yes, it isn’t illegal to support a crazy person for president in this country; thank God we live in America, eh?

        • Ed Sargent

          Sure does sound like you have been duped by the democrat socialist party, Surely you are talking about the worst kidnapping of America by Obama and Hillary right? You can pile up all the crap you want on Trump, but it will never come close to the damage obozo the slime ball has done. yeah, you can go around and find thousands of liberal therapists saying Trump is unstable, but millions know obozo was not even eligible to be president and was a muslim trying to destroy America !!!! Why does someone have to hide and seal all history of his birth certificate and college records? And the democrat party puts a piece of dog shit up there for their nomination? Thats when I stopped being a democrat, nor republican. Trump not being a politician is a good change for out country, Your voted politicians have been ripping you off blind for years. And thank your God or whatever belief you are that Hillary didn’t become president because she would have sold us out drastically.

          • Lee Butcher

            Trump and Clinton are both pathological liars, and self serving megalomaniacs. I voted for Bernie Sanders. One thing I have to wonder about anyone who voted for Trump (anyone who is pro-cannabis, such as we on this forum) is the logic of supporting a man who believes ALL recreational drugs are wrong, spent his adult life teaching his kids are bad (along with drinking), is WHY?? And why are you even on this forum if you hate the democrats so bad, since they are the one’s who are not opposed to cannabis. This is the last place I would expect to find Trump trolls stirring the pot. You must be getting paid, or have nothing better to do. Anyone who would vote for the silver-spooned brat has been duped, and they don’t even know it.

          • Excuse me

            All spewing aside, the recent initiatives legalizing cannabis were bipartisan. Divisive rhetoric does no good, except to consolidate power into the hands of an ever growing bureaucracy. As a conservative libertarian, I view the criminalization of cannabis an inefficiency, and a limitation of liberty. But I feel the same way about the underlying platform of the Democratic Party as well. After Trump said we need better control of refugee immigration, it was like a breath of fresh air. When he questioned our spending with the UN and Nato compared to all other nations, and our trade deals, it made sense. If you’re reading everything that comes from the media with their noses up Obama and Pelosi’s rear-ends, you will get no real politik–just party line. Trump actually has expressed a mostly laissez faire view about weed from my readings.
            Even if he was against it totally, time and tide are against an anti-cannabis position. Congress will probably present bipartisan support to end the regulatory charade.

          • Excuse me

            All spewing aside, the recent initiatives legalizing cannabis were bipartisan. Divisive rhetoric does no good, except to consolidate power into the hands of an ever growing bureaucracy. As a conservative libertarian, I view the criminalization of cannabis an inefficiency, and a limitation of liberty. But I feel the same way about the underlying platform of the Democratic Party as well. After Trump said we need better control of refugee immigration, it was like a breath of fresh air. (This is not based on fear or racism, but facts on the ground. If we apply the same methods on immigration of Middle easterners as Germany, we will live in rising levels of chaos. Try the Gatestone website and read a few reports.) When he questioned our spending with the UN and Nato compared to all other nations, and our trade deals, it made sense. If you’re reading everything that comes from the media with their noses up Obama and Pelosi’s rear-ends, you will get no real politik–just party line. Trump actually has expressed a mostly laissez faire view about weed from my readings.

            Even if he was against it totally, time and tide are against an anti-cannabis position. Congress will probably present bipartisan support to end the regulatory charade.

          • William

            In his “opioid crisis” speech, Mr. Trump said :”I never drank or smoked…I did a lot of bad things, but…” Did I hear him admit to say, coke use? Did anyone else note that? WTF?

          • William

            Hillary and Obama were war mongering liars, too; I know. I also Face Booked that Trump actually looked like there may be a human being sitting in his chair. I am not duped by anybody. I don’t disagree with you re: the rest of your beliefs. Hillary was a war monger in a skirt, and a thief. (are you aware of the 2 kids murdered in Arkansas?) Politics is a criminal business, and Bernie is no traditional pol either. Trump not being a politician, yeah; good for our country in that people will stand against his insanity. I don’t pile any crap on Mr. Trump. He is his own pile. Really, I do hear you, and I don’t disagree. I have looked a bit further into what is happening. A lot further. Plain and simple. Don’t believe everything you think.

        • Excuse me

          He looked quite in charge in the televised meeting with members of Congress yesterday. Pelosi et al, meanwhile looked like angry children who are being asked share their cookie when he proposed a bi-partisan fix to this DACA mess that Obama got the country in. William. perhaps you might look at more than the leftist networks to obtain your impressions of the current political climate.

          • William

            I’m retired, and read about 2-3 books a week. And catch everything from FOX to Democracy Now. DACA mess? Try Sam Huntington, “Clash of Civilizations” or “Dereliction of Duty” by McMaster. If you read at all. Don’t rely on networks for your thought. Trump isn’t even in charge of his own people; one meeting at a table full of bought and paid for politicians…Yep, he looked like there might be a human being sitting in his chair; I said so on FB just after watching the moments shown on corporatocracy media. Quite.

          • Excuse me

            DACA mess? It remains to be addresses properly–700,000 votes for the Democratic party is what Pelosi hopes for. Its power, not compassion. If those dreamers were conservatives, She would be demanding a wall. But what we face from waves of immigrants can be read by otherwise stifled journalists on Gatestone.org. Which underlines Huntington. After that, Try America Alone, by Mark Steyn, for a few facts and a few laughs–he also supports Huntington. Far before Huntington wrote Clash, it was well demarcated what America faces, in How Democracies Perish, by Jean-François Revel, (Early 80s) and his later work Anti-Americanism, in 2003, which illustrated the enabling of the clash by modern liberalism.
            Security advisor Walid Pheres makes a clear case in Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America.
            In short, Trump proposes an end to chain migration and a merit system. Its not about racism, and as long as he accomplishes half of his promises, he’s doing fine steering the ship. The people who hate him are at risk of losing funds they have been stealing from the taxpayer.
            While I haven’t ready McMaster, I have a practice to run, children in graduate school, and your Social Security to pay, so my reading list is currently truncated.

          • Excuse me

            Golly, you must be really smart. Books? Wow. But seriously folks…
            DACA mess? It remains to be addresses properly–700,000 votes for the Democratic party is what Pelosi hopes for. Its power, not compassion. If those dreamers were conservatives, She would be demanding a wall. But what we face from waves of immigrants can be read by otherwise stifled journalists on the Gatestone website Which underlines Huntington. After that, Try America Alone, by Mark Steyn, for a few facts and a few laughs–he also supports Huntington. Far before Huntington wrote Clash, it was well demarcated what America faces, in How Democracies Perish, by Jean-François Revel, (Early 80s) and his later work Anti-Americanism, in 2003, which illustrated the enabling of the clash by modern liberalism.
            Security advisor Walid Pheres makes a clear case in Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America.
            In short, Trump proposes an end to chain migration and a merit system. Its not about racism, and as long as he accomplishes half of his promises, he’s doing fine steering the ship. The people who hate him are at risk of losing funds they have been stealing from the taxpayer.

          • William

            Yeah, they’re like those paper things with like, really good words. Sammy Huntington was a very smart really scared white guy. Sound familiar? Which one of you is the excuse?

      • Austin

        Drumpf is flipping NUTS! #orangenuts

  • Jeff Brown

    very simple/ Congress must remove cannabis from schedule I. They put it in schedule ! with no good reason/ by definition a schedule I substance has no medical use in the United States. The majority of the states and people say it does have medical use. Congress must do the will of the people or be replaced. This is a defining issue of the day.

    • shadowsofiga

      Exactly. That has been the core issue all along. To continue to compare cannabis to opium, heroin, etc. is just insane and uneducated. It’s like being 40 and still believing in monsters under your bed (unless of course you’re in a Charter Spectrum commercial…then it’s OK).

      • Songchannels

        They are the enemy of the people if you haven’t figured it out yet. I mean you have to do research to understand the Federal government located in the District of Columbia is really operating in reality as a for-profit corporation listed under Dunn & Bradstreet as United States of America (not for America as was intended by founding fathers). Everything to them is about money, not human health or anything else. That’s why they are killing us slowly in so many ways. The District Columbia Organic Act of 1871 was created after the Civil War that America went bankrupt having to take out bank loans. The bankers forced America into their terms to become a corporation under the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and Admiralty law.

        The Constitution really takes a back seat to the way our government works today, they create an illusion of following it but clearly do not. When new congressman enter into their new positions they are briefed of these facts. The D.C. is country unto itself, they just use us as slaves and intend on killing us off one day. That is why they have been slow killing us through Monsanto poisoning our food with Round-up and corrupting our crops. They want extinction on the planet and are killing off the natural world. They plan on killing off billions of people working with Zionist Israel especially (who hate Goyim).

        Our Federal government isn’t for us, they are the enemy of the American people. They will unmask themselves who they actually are when they’re ready. Their goal will be terminating much of humanity under Artificial Intelligent bots, etc. They are a criminal cartel, not a legitimate government, FYI. No morality, hard, cold cruel tyranny’s coming from greedy money grubbing souless demon possessed child trafficking sick twisted men and women from the dark side.

        • Excuse me

          Well, you were sounding oriented to reality until you accuse “Zionist Israel” of plotting extinction of the human race. You apparently need anxiolytics and/or anti-psychosis meds.

          • Ed Sargent

            He is right about the establishment of corrupt America though. You don’t have the freedoms you think you do, it’s all a smoke screen. And the freedoms you do have are ones taken away from you by American Government and sold back to you as a form of a license. Songchannels is right ! America is full of greedy scumbags screwing over fellow Americans, they are known as politicians.

        • john smith

          There’s a lot of truth in what you say. But the Zionist Israel thing – hmm. need some references.

        • lovingc

          Rant much?

    • calvet11

      Yes! Yes! Yes!

    • Ed Sargent

      It takes congress years to make decisions, they are all old dinosaurs that all can’t get along and screwing America over every day !

  • jooberdoober

    I wouldn’t put it past Sessions to wait until a lot of cash is being made in CA and then order the DEA to seize all of these Marijuana companies assets and split it amongst themselves (as “working” funds for various drug enforcement programs)

    • disqus_qm6OxDniZ1

      Yep…they’ve done it in small raids in Ca. They confiscate all the products, houses AND vehicles and use them to bust more shops.

  • Laura Sorensen

    I am another patient that was given generous amount of pain medicine. After I filled the RX I would fine a way to get rid of them before I got home. The side effects of the pain RX were ridiculous. I also use water therapy for more relief from chronic pain. I vote to change the schedule 1 status too.

  • Carl Vollbracht Jr.

    Scares me yall. I was ran over by a train as a baby. 9 months old. Tore my legs from me. The only thing that stips my horrible nerve pain is med cannabis. Methadone didnt work oxy made me a zombie. Morphine didnt help nothing but Gods medicine. It does what pills cant….

    • Scooter Bell

      Thanks for stayin’ strong, Carl. Hope med cannabis continues to help!

    • William

      And for the hundreds of thousands of us for whom “the other flower” (Opioid) does work, let us have it. The combination of flowers, cannabis and poppy, is highly efficacious. Don’t demonize one flower in support of the other. All health and good life to all…

      • lovingc

        Cannabis and opiates potentiate each other so less of the opiate is needed for relief, thereby reducing over doses.

    • Austin

      Plants not pills!!! #cannabiscures #cannabisSAVESlives #kratomsaves #poppiesKILL

  • Ogden Ross

    We all know that J Edgar Hoover wrote in the the thirties a treatise of laws against marijuana. He hated the free wheeling life styles of the radical left intellectuals who frequented jazz bars and hung out in artistic communities. Sessions has the exact same MO. He does not believe in personal rights or freedom of expression. Perhaps, like Hoover he has repressed desires for his own sexual inhibitions. Hoover was a closet gay after all. Could it be that Trump and Sessions have a special relationship? Moreover, the Republicans have committed a heresy by treading on states rights. New Hampshire’s famous motto comes to mind,”Don’t Tread on Me.” as directed towards the Federal government. This will work against their re-election next term. Frankly, Obama while he had the agenda should have dropped cannabis from schedule 1 but he must have been brow beaten by some dark element within the government not to yield too much. Perhaps, Sessions will issue more affirmative guidelines by removing this particular set. Primarily, this will doom the republican party and the opposition better do a better job of unseating incumbents in the next elections. The extreme Right Wing of the Southern Dixicrats who always were fascists historically from which derives Sessions must be absolved of duty and this may mean the impeachment of Trump as a means to an end. His country clubs netted him $150 million last year in operations and he played golf 78 days of his administration.

    • disqus_qm6OxDniZ1

      I agree with Sessions being some kinda closeted something, but Trump likes his female tail. As far as impeachment, even if Trump was impeached he doesn’t have to step down or abdicate his position. Clinton was impeached…didn’t step down. As far as Trump making money, he’s allowed. Even though HE ACCEPTS NO SALARY AS PRESIDENT. (He and George Washington are the only in history to turn down the pay.) His businesses are being run by others and he’s not allowed to even give advice…and doesn’t. Else the media and Antifa pussies would be screaming to the world. Now…Obama was worth less than 1 million when he got into office. Now he’s worth over 20 million…(that we know about.) How did that happen? If he spent NOTHING of his own money while pretending to be a president, he’d still only be worth a little over 3 million. Soooo…if you want to talk corruption…let’s look at Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Schumer, as they are all worth more than their salaries would dictate.

    • calvet11

      Let’s make this about cannabis.

      • Scooter Bell

        Agreed – already enough politics crowding out cannabis.

      • William

        Gotta say, at some point you gotta realize it’s all connected…

    • William

      Yep; check out “Chasing the Scream” by Johann Hari; Anslinger was directly involved in murdering Billlie Hiliday. He was best friends with Joe McCarthy, who was an alcoholic heroin addict, and Anslinger set up McCarhty’s heroin suppliers, a pharmacy in D.C. And Anslinger mentored Joe Arpaio. Marijuana was commonly used by Mexicans, and heroin was used, as noted by Mr. Ross, by the counter culture of color; jazz players in particular. The drug war has nothing to do with drugs. “We knew the drug war wasn’t about drugs. The counter culture and Blacks scared us.” H.R. Haldeman, Nixon’s right hand man.

  • Eugene Harrison

    Allot of people are against marijuana until they or someone in their family who could benefit from the plant their condemning.

    • calvet11

      Like retiring Utah Senator O. Hatch.

    • Mikon

      I suffer from a very painful autoimmune disorder… I used to say I wouldn’t wish it on anybody. But now I see these despicable people using government power to limit people like me from accessing a safer alternative and I do wish they could experience it. One of the drugs used to “treat” it is also used for chemotherapy, so I also understand the compassionate reason to make cannabis available for cancer patients. Maybe Jeffy should watch a loved one wasting away and in constant excruciating pain to get little “perspective”.

  • Mo Jo

    Won’t bail you out but he is constitutionally bound to defend the State law using every legal means at his disposal. Which is why Sessions dropped this hammer on Jan 4th – three days after Rec-Legal CA. In short, Sessions knows there will be a State vs Fed battle led by CA and he wanted to limit the massive taxes that CA is about to collect and allocate for their legal Warchest that is AT LEAST as big as the entire DOJ budget.

  • Paul Sorensen

    This is the message I sent to my Congressman in Oregon:
    ‘Congressman Schrader

    I urge you to join your colleagues in strongly denouncing AG Sessions revocation of The Cole Memo. Oregonians have clearly stated their desire to allow legal marijuana for recreational and medical use. I recommend a full throated denunciation of Sessions’
    action.
    Please make this an opportunity to propose legislation to reschedule or legalize cannabis at the Federal level.
    Marijuana has clearly become an important part of Oregon’s economy. Tell AG Sessions that Oregon will protect it’s rights.

    Thank you
    Sincerely
    Paul J Sorensen’

    • Lynda Delucas

      Hey I sent something similar along with call my Us senator Bob Casey to protect cannibas state rights! Maybe they will come up with something to pass as an emergency bill to protect the states with cannibas laws’

  • Bob Carter

    American cannabis is not our fight, Canadian patients spent 6 years in court and won our
    right to grow our own medically, I suggest Americans run home and do the
    same as as US investors invested in Canadian cannabis companies are
    greedy fuc’s that are profiting off of sick Canadians, off a substance
    that it is illegal for you to profit from, I am hoping Sessions will
    arrest and seize US assets being laundered from Canada’s public
    healthcare system, F you all .

    • Scooter Bell

      Congrats on winning the right to grow, very cool. The current US map shows 6 out of 50 states allowing some indoor growth( https://www.marijuana.com/news/2016/11/where-can-you-grow-marijuana-legally-in-the-united-states/ ). Washington state also has a bill that would allow indoor growth as well. Heard a lot of good things about Canada’s healthcare system, sorry you feel ripped off. Have a great day!

    • drfoy

      You fail to mention the # of your fellow Canadians also making $$ off of Canadian corporations involved with cannabis. Stop being a hypocrite and get off your soap box.

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    • Jason

      Because people need to buy marijuana (and apparently you sell heroin also) from some random person on the internet….

  • Ed Sargent

    Sessions will be fired next year. Trump does not like him, Trump thinks Comey, Clintons, Ovomits have raped America dry for 8 years and Trump thinks Sessions should have already have indictments on all of them. Trump knows the medicinal properties of pot and this probably irks Trump off that Sessions is dragging his feet on what is more important for the country — The Damage done To America the last 8 years by a corrupt, illegal government under ovomit and Killary , more than ever out weigh the minimal damage pot has done in it’s entire history.

    • drfoy

      Who just gave corporate america a large tax break? That didn’t need it? And you talk about raping America. You sir are clueless.

  • bonnie king

    I worked in the medical industry. Administrative position. There were so many people that needed a solution to their medical problems and cannabus was the best solution. The doctor was forbidden to even mention using the alternative medicine. Instead he was able to prescribe what was thought to be better and safer, the wonderful meds from big pharma. The addictive ones. Now we have major control by the feds over the so called safer drugs because of addiction and deaths. The “control” has caused a huge increase in the use of heroin. More addiction and deaths. When cannabis was made legal the medical industry was still unable to mention to the patients anything concerning its use as a safer alternative to the dangerous drugs that are considered legal and distributed by big pharma. Whose pocket do you think secessions is in. Big pharma could very well save everybody and start distributing “the safely tested and regulated” medicine, cannabis. The money involved is too good for them to pass up. I am 70 years old and simply can’t sleep. Until I got my “medical card” from some doctor on a computer in a back office, I hadn’t had a full nights sleep in a long time. It was heaven to be able to just lie in bed and fall asleep. Sorry about the mini thesis, I have been wanting to say this ever sense this nonsense started. We need to establish our own choices concerning what we know to be best for us.

    • William

      I’m 67, and I have to ask, please don’t demonize one flower for another. Opioid works for hundreds of thousands of us. I have to wonder, who has the juice to suppress legal opioid, an ancient medicine given to Jesus on the cross, while flooding the country with cheap potent heroin? Do you believe that is a coincidence?

      • Lynda Delucas

        Please give me some kind of proof that Jesus was given drugs on the cross or during His life. I don’t see it in the Bible at all! They gave Him bitter wine.

        • William

          The sponge was vinegar in smell; acetylation (vinegar) of opium produces a stronger opioid; diacetylmorphine (morphine alkaloid is the major alkaloid in opium). Widely accepted; Google it…all respect and love,

          • Lynda Delucas

            I think bitter wine was pretty much the same thing. 👍 lol

  • papaouiee

    Sessions sounds like a communist demorat bleeding heart muslim liberal ass to me and didn’t Trump appoint him?

    • drfoy

      Your reasoning is a bit skewed.

  • Couchspud 12

    Curious to know if this will have any affect on medical marijuana. Arkansas medical marijuana dispensaries are supposed to open this summer.

    • Lynda Delucas

      Same here in PA! The dr giving me a script once the dispensaries are open! I hope it doesn’t affect it either!! It took two years to finish everything. The law went into effect in 2016. I didn’t realize Arkansas was a medical state! Good for you! I have several people that have Huntingtons disease that live in that state I’ll pass on that info! For now I’m just using old fashioned way. But I will be using a Vape once the dispensaries are open. I also have Huntingtons disease (which is similar to Parkinsons), which is the reason I’m getting it.

  • solange9

    One step forward, two back, this is just a continuation of the war on anything that might interfere with the profits of big corporations. That is how it started, and this is how it continues…………..

  • james caldroney

    I would like to know how much the pharmaceutical companies are paying sessions!!!

  • Songchannels

    I think it’s ominous! First, you guys are very naive after 8 years of no problems under Obama! This guy is absolutely psycho BECAUSE he’s invested in private for-prison industry and wants to profit off of putting bodies into them for corporate slave labor and whatever else. Don’t stand down so naively, this guy is planning to terrorize innocent lives after he weaponized a law making everyone a felon over night! They don’t want to clean their own house, they are the enemy of the American people and you guys need to WAKE THE HELL UP!

    You guys are too lay back, we remember the years of what these kind of people do and they will murder, torture and do whatever else because it’s all about money! You are far too lay back, this guy is of the devil and will smash as many souls into the dirt as he possibly can. He is IRRATIONAL in his accusations of cannibis and must be met with rational explanations of the health benefits of non-TBD cannabis oil especially.

    Seriously, expect raids and fed SWAT TEAMS coming in and breaking heads! This guy is from the OLD GUARD and you guys are way way too casual from being a few decades into liberal approaches. They are for real and are planning on causing serious pain and grief, ruining lives so they can profit from it. BE ON YOUR GUARD!

  • Lesa Campbell Andrade

    The pharmaceutical companies are losing money because the medical cannabis has taken the place of a lot of their narcotics. Therefore they’re asking Sessions to fight against legalizing marijuana in any form it just is not in their best interest! They do not care about the will of the people only the lining of their pockets

  • emernel

    What Americans need to do is start a revolution and take Your Government back from the Corporate Psychopaths that are now running the country and trying to destroy the world. ISIS are not the biggest terrorist group today, the US Government is.

  • william brandt

    Would this be a move to force individual states into implementing laws regarding marijuana possession.sales ,grow houses etc. Rather than have the federal government trying to enforce the same restrictions ?

  • CannabisWallet

    Actually the FinCEN guidance is very heavily leveraged on the reading of Cole as a basis for the document. So at the very least, the FinCEN guidance has had its proverbial legs cut out from under it. With that said, neither FinCEN nor Cole have any application (nor does the Senate version of Rohrabacher-Blumenauer’s language) in the adult recreational use market, since both are predicated on medical use only.
    The sky isn’t falling any faster than it was last Thursday, but there are certainly some interesting things that could happen as unintended consequences for Sessions… we posted a blog article about it the other day.
    https://cannabiswallet.net/sessions-pot-prosecutions/

  • familyguy

    WE ARE BEING IGNORED! Sessions has made it almost impossible for a national legalization policy to occur. First you must assume that a bill makes it to congress which has not occurred. Then you need a veto proof majority for the to be enacted since Trump would most likely veto the legislation. We also have a very bias media on the subject that includes liberal and conservative news sources. Both ignore the topic like the plague and when it is mentioned more than likely at lesser one news anchor will snicker or make some off colored joke. It is amazing how such a small group of people such as “the dreamers” (less than a million) can capture the full attention of all news media, yet legalization receives very little attention even when it has 64% support of the American people. My advice is GO VOTE AND ONLY VOTE FOR CANDIDATES THAT SUPPORT LEGALIZATION. Party affiliation does not matter.

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