Posted on 01/06/2018 7:04:28 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s job security is in question after taking withering fire from fellow Republicans this week, including from two prominent House conservatives who called on him to resign.
Two leaders of the House Freedom Caucus, Reps. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), called on Sessions to step aside in an op-ed Friday, charging he has lost control of the Department of Justice and the FBI.
Sessions has also come under criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike for his decision to rescind the Obama-era Cole memo, which gave states the space to legalize marijuana without fear of federal interference.
By withdrawing the memo, Sessions gave federal prosecutors more leeway to pursue cases against the legal marijuana industry, which is expanding rapidly in several states.
Sen. Cory Gardner (R), whose home state of Colorado is host to a booming legal cannabis industry, ripped Sessions on the Senate floor Thursday and accused him of breaking a personal pledge not to change the Obama-era policy.
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He is asserting that ALL laws either need to be enforced or modified/gotten rid of as suits the Congress. having a law that isn't enforced ends up just allowing them to use it in the future as a hammer for someone they can't get any other way - which amounts to very surgical cherry picking/wielding of the "law".
What I’m saying is that there is a property specific to cannabis that makes the user think of marijuana as a god.
Has nothing to do with other substances or chemicals.
I've noticed this too.
The effects strike me as similar to the effects of another plant that I have observed. My daughter once gave me a Venus flytrap. Within a few days we started to notice an increase in the number of flies hanging around and not just more flies but stupid flies. Before the presence of the flytrap the flies seemed to be more difficult to swat but the flies attracted by the flytrap would just sit there or try to walk away instead of fly. When they did fly, they would fly directly into walls or the ceiling as if they had lost all sense of bearing. I think the effects of the organic compounds released by the flytrap not only attracted flies but either attracted only stupid uncoordinated larger than normal flies or incapacitated them in ways that made them more vulnerable to capture and less motivated to escape.I would guess that not all flies were effected in the same way and the ones that weren't just didn't show up for dinner.
When the DOJ inspector general report gets released in a few days I think a lot of the Sessions bashing will simply evaporate as if it never happened. Too many freepers seem to think that no investigations are going on if we aren’t kept informed. I keep asking the Sessions-gotta-go crowd why they think Trump hasn’t fired him. So far the sole explanation has been that Trump is afraid to fire him. Yeah. Right.
That’s very interesting and a great analogy, thanks.
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