Posted on 03/19/2018 2:02:19 PM PDT by lward99
Obama’s real legacy was, well, weed. Obama backed the Fed’s off states that wanted to legalize medical or recreational marijuana. Obama’s America was on a path to legalize and profit on the massive marijuana marketplace. That was until Jeff Sessions became Attorney General.
It is no secret that Sessions is no friend of the budding marijuana industry in the United States.
Sessions’ recently released a one-page memo declaring that the Department of Justice (DOJ) would rescind Barack Obama’s Cole Memo which outlined a relaxed set of "rules" for states legalizing marijuana to follow in order to avoid federal interference.
Fearing that Sessions actions opened the door to possible legal action against marijuana businesses operating in states that have legalized it in some capacity, serious investors looked to Canada.
(Excerpt) Read more at constitutionalrightspac.com ...
Marijuana!
Sheesh.
How about perjury, abuse of power etc. in the DOJ and FBI!?
Sheesh.
5.56mm
Sounds like par for the course. Sessions swatting flies while we are being trampled by buffaloes. Worst possible choice Trump could have made.
Go ahead and post your stupid Keebler Elf and Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies photoshops.
I’m still partial to Rip van Sessions.
He has until ~ Oct 15, 2018 to show us his series MoJo Powers.
“Sheesh.”
Yep, some folks are obsessed with weed.
It consumes them. And I’m not talking about the smokers.
This article has apostrophic abuse.
The only potentially abusive apostrophe I found was in “Fed’s”, which could be considered a contraction.
I was pleased to see (Sessions’). The writer actually knew how a possessive or plural use on a word ending in “s” works!
It is bad enough when folks misuse punctuation and grammar. That proper use can be thought by some to be incorrect shows just how poorly all that public education money has been spent.
Not at all.
Obama backed the Fed’s off states that wanted to legalize...marijuana.It was a ghastly use of the colloquial verb "to back off", which usually implies the subject willingly retreating, but in this case is used to mean that Obama forced those states to withdraw their efforts.Should read:
Obama backed the Feds off of states that wanted to legalize... marijuana.
Had it been a contraction, as you suggested, the sentence would have read, "Obama backed the Fed is off states that wanted to legalize... marijuana", which makes no sense.
Either the possessive "possesses" the memo or it doesn't. Can't have it both ways. The presence or absence of the indefinite article determines which way the sentence should read.
Sessions’ recently released a one-page memo ...should read:
Sessions recently released a one-page memo
OR
Sessions’ recently released one-page memo...
It is bad enough when folks misuse punctuation and grammar. That proper use can be thought by some to be incorrect shows just how poorly all that public education money has been spent.
Fortunately, I spent more than 40 years writing and editing in a publishing career, after having received a good public education and then paying for a private gradutate education, in case you were wondering.
A contraction of the word *federal* (Fed, which I consider lazy) in a possessive form, not the specific *is*. I should have been more clear.
Yes, it was poorly worded, but not apostrophe abusive. I also agree on the poor structure of the entire piece. Lousy construction and overuse of colloquialisms are rife in contemporary “news” reporting.
Nice to “speak” with you. Take special care.
One does not use an apostrophe to pluralize a word. As a lifelong DC area person who grew up reading its newspapers, I can tell you I have never seen the plural “Feds” (as a nickname for the agents or policies of a Federal agency) published by a mainstream news source written any other way but “Feds.”
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