Going against the wishes of the YUUUGE majority

af Americans, the Little Weasel appointed by the Orange Clown wants to criminalize medical marijuana.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA

AG wants to reverse federal pot protections

Sessions claims amendment “inhibits Justice Department’s authority”

By Christopher Ingraham
The Washington Post

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is asking congressional leaders to undo federal medical marijuana protections that have been in place since 2014, according to a May letter that became public Monday.

The protections, known as the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, prohibit the Justice Department.

Sessions’s citing of a “historic drug epidemic” to justify a crackdown on medical marijuana is at odds with what researchers know about current drug use and abuse in the United States. The epidemic Sessions refers to involves deadly opiate drugs, not marijuana. A growing body of research (acknowledged by the National Institute on Drug Abuse) has shown that opiate deaths and overdoses actually decrease in states with medical marijuana laws on the books.

That research strongly suggests that cracking down on medical marijuana laws, as Sessions requested, could perversely make the opiate epidemic even worse.

And you wonder why I hate the ASSHOLES(R)?