Cory Gardner, the Republican Senator from Colorado (the first state to legalize recreational pot,) is putting a hold on all Trump DOJ nominees until idiot Jeff Sessions stops his crusade against states that have legalized recreational pot use. Like it it or not, it’s still a state’s right thing to legalize pot and if the voters chose to vote in favor, that’s their right. Who in the hell is Jeff Sessions to say otherwise?
| Cory Gardner puts hold on all Trump DOJ nominees over Sessions pot crusade |
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Republican Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado promised on Thursday to put holds on all nominees for Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Justice Department, amid a furor over a policy change that aims to reverse the federal government’s permissive stance toward states that legalize marijuana.
On the Senate floor, a visibly agitated Gardner decried a “complete reversal” of the position he said Sessions and President Donald Trump had taken with respect to enforcing federal laws that outlaw marijuana use.
“Prior to his confirmation, then-Senator Sessions told me there would be no plans to reverse the Cole memorandum,” Gardner said. He referred to a 2013 memo penned by former Deputy Attorney General James Cole essentially assuring that the Obama administration would not stop states from legalizing marijuana.
“One tweet later, one policy later, a complete reversal of what many of us on the Hill were told before the confirmation, what we had continued to believe the last year,” Gardner said. “And without any notification, conversation, or dialogue with Congress [the policy was] completely reversed.”
I don’t use pot, and really don’t care for the people who do as they genuinely reak from the stuff. But if it’s a state’s voters vote legalize the crap, then Jeff Sessions and the federal government have no right to say or do otherwise. If Sessions is so against states that legalized pot, he should take the case to the Supreme Court like what happened with gay marriage that was legalized in some states, but not others.