(ANTIMEDIA) Las Vegas, NV — Attorney General Jeff Sessions has long opposed cannabis legalization, claiming “Good people don’t use marijuana,” and this week alleged violence increases when it’s legal (yet another alternative fact perpetuated by the
(ANTIMEDIA) It seems Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ former comments claiming the enforcement of federal marijuana rules is a “strain on federal resources” have been completely forgotten. The former Alabama senator showed his true colors on this issue during a recent exchange with reporters, and we now know his office is “going to look” at cases in some states of people violating local marijuana rules.
(RPI) It can be a challenge to follow the pronouncements of President Trump, as he often seems to change his position on any number of items from week to week, or from day to day, or even from minute to minute. Consider his speech last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). It was reported as “fiery” and “blistering,” but it was also full of contradictions.
(ANTIMEDIA) A day before notorious drug warrior Senator Jeff Sessions assumed the role of Attorney General in President Trump’s administration this week, another lawmaker introduced legislation to protect states’ rights on cannabis.
Republican Representative Dana Rohrabacher of Orange County, California, submitted a bill on Tuesday with the express purpose of amending the Controlled Substance Act to remove legal punishments for the production, distribution, and use of cannabis when individuals are acting within the laws of their own states.
In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle keeps watch along the border fence in Nogales, Ariz. (AP/Ross D. Franklin)
Attention deficit disorder isn’t usually a welcome presidential attribute, but Mexicans can be thankful that Donald Trump has temporarily shifted his focus away from their country to start fights instead with Iran, the European Union, China, California and the U.S. news media.
Exclusive: The argument for President Trump’s “Great Wall” across the U.S. southern border would be severely undercut if America expanded legalization of personal drug use, reports Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall Attention deficit disorder isn’t usually a welcome presidential attribute,…Read more →
Just as the British Empire was in part financed by their control of the opium trade through the British East India Company, so too has the CIA been found time after time to be at the heart of the modern international drug trade. From its very inception, the CIA has been embroiled in the murky underworld of drug trafficking...
