Veterans Condemn Justice Department’s Rollback Of Obama-Era Marijuana Policy

Cpl Jeff N. agree. This will give individual prosecutors one more tool to use in the fight. No one is interested in the individual medical user but pot IS a gateway drug even in states where it is locally legal. But pot can be LEs and prosecutor’s entry to sources of other far more damaging substances.

A1C Doug Towsley - allowing prosecuters to enforce current law is not a step backward. Now I will agree with you that we should look at the law. However we should enforce the laws that we have.

MSgt Steve Sweeney - I operate in the world as it is, not as I wish it to be. There are federal laws on the books regarding marijuana. You can agree or disagree with them but they are laws that were duly passed and signed into law by legislators and chief executives over many years. None of these were signed by Trump. I know that hurts you to know that but there it is.

If you are going to become a federalist then get in all the way. Are you now for pushing things like marriage, abortion and a host of other items to the states to legislate and regulate etc? When Obama was king, the left thought the federal government had all authority, with Trump, they think the feds should have none. Funny how that works.

I have no issue with states legalizing pot. I am against it personally, I think it is a poor reflection on society that we continue to go down the path of drug and alcohol use and have the government make money of it etc. We are in an opioid crisis and have seen others in our recent past (crack, cocaine, meth etc). We continue to glamourize and push drug use (including alcohol) and wonder why we have problems with abuse, over doses and a drug culture in this country.

I would be for decriminalizing smaller "personal use" amounts so we do not hassle people and jail people for minor issues of personal choice. What this move does is allows federal law enforcement to go after people/businesses should they stray from the law and move into illegal activity in the "legal" pot business. I don't suspect you will see a rash of prosecutions of legal state businesses but you may see some prosecution of people participating in illegal trafficking or interstate movement of drugs etc.

So, Steve, are you all in on the Federalism now or was than another flaccid point you are trying to make?

Cpl Jeff N. - You should probably be asking yourself if you are all in on the Federalism now, since that appears to be the stance you are taking.

"stray from the law and move into illegal activity in the "legal" pot business. " - like what? What scenario are you imagining? Would it be similar to how people/businesses stray from the law and move into illegal activity in the "legal" construction business? How about the "legal" dry cleaning business? "Stray into illegal activity".... That's a good line. A good Gestapo would help prevent that sort of criminal wandering, eh comrade?

A1C Doug Towsley - the fact that a state has not law against something does not make it legal. Sadly we don't get to choose what laws we follow and which ones we don't. If you were still in you would not be able to use weed. That is just the way that it is. I would agree that we could use less laws and that the feds should not control as much as they do. I would vote for someone who would reduce the number of laws and simplify the legal system. The system that we have my have flaws but it is the best in the world.

Hmmm.

A1C Doug Housley, you really have a lack of understanding when I comes to laws, Constitution and quotations. The VA can’t help you with those.

Yeah, my one glass of wine a night may be a bit much for you, back to your grass and ignorance.