Another campaign promise that Trump has made good on.

None of the Democrat presidents ever did anything like this.

Trump indicates where he stands on medical marijuana

Jeremy Berke
May 6th 2017 11:45AM


President Donald Trump issued his first statement on medical marijuana since he took office.

Trump on Friday signed a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that will keep the federal government funded through September 30.

The congressionally approved bill includes a rider — the Rohrabacher - Blumenauer Amendment — that disallows the Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Agency from using federal funds to prosecute medical marijuana businesses in states where medical marijuana is legal.

Marijuana is illegal at the federal level, though 29 states have varying degrees of medical marijuana legalization on the books. The amendment doesn't extend to recreational marijuana, which is legal in eight states.

Trump, who has stayed mum on the topic of marijuana since the election, finally gave an indication as to where he stands on the issue in his statement after he signed the bill:


"Division B, section 537 provides that the Department of Justice may not use any funds to prevent implementation of medical marijuana laws by various States and territories. I will treat this provision consistently with my constitutional responsibility to take care that the laws be faithfully executed."

 

Yup, this one issue is going to sway everyone and convince the world that Trump isn't an idiot with the codes...

 

Do you ever give any thought to the stupid things you post?

 

Natural Boy is too stupid and ignorant (two different things) to see the glaring caveat here so I will have to go ahead and point it out.

This PR puff only applies to "medical marijuana" which is a no brainer because .....

Quinnipiac poll: 93 percent in favor of medical marijuana; 71 percent would oppose a federal crackdown on legal marijuana

So you bet Trump and Sessions aren't going to fuck with 93% of the country.

But it does not mean Trump and Sessions aren't going to after states that have legalized marijuana for recreational use and pot smokers from coast to coast.

 

Hey you inbred dick head, if it was such a "no brainer" then why didn't your messiah Bowack Obama do it?

He never did shit with addressing the marijuana laws at a Federal level. He always claimed he would when he was on the campaign trail, but they once elected he did the Democrat two face shuffle...

Just proves that both of you are low life phony lying cowards....

 

As always your stupid ignorance (two different things) always gives me a good laugh. President Obama made the DOJ stop raiding and trying to prosecute medical marijuana dispensaries in California. And President Obama and the DOJ also gave the green light to states that wanted to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes and even lifted restrictions so they could actually have bank accounts and use credit cards so they could get out of the very dangerous situation of cash only for everything.

And Trump and Sessions are now trying to take all that away and no one can believe or trust them.

 

As always you take your stupidity to a new level.... You are little more than a phony ass Obama ass kisser with a mental defect....

Obama's DEA was still raiding marijuana dispensaries in 2013 you lying coward....


Obama’s War on Pot

While the press has hailed the president’s “public health” approach, the White House has cracked down on cannabis.


By Mike Riggs
October 30, 2013
In February 2013, three months after Colorado and Washington legalized recreational marijuana, a sullen Gil Kerlikowske, head of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), shared his regrets with the Canadian magazine Maclean’s. “The administration has not done a particularly good job,” he said, “of, one, talking about marijuana as a public health issue, and number two, talking about what can be done and where we should be headed on our drug policy.” People in mourning are given to melodrama, but Kerlikowske’s attempt to blame marijuana legalization on poor messaging was evidence of psychosis.


From day one of Obama’s presidency, the press—from local outfits to the major networks—had hailed his administration’s promise to treat drugs as a “public health issue” as if it were a novel idea. It wasn’t. White House Czar Calls for End to ‘War on Drugs,’ the headline of a 2009 Wall Street Journal profile of Kerlikowske, could just as easily have been written in 1996 about Gen. Barry McCaffrey, drug czar under Bill Clinton. Another popular Kerlikowske line—“You can’t arrest your way out of the drug problem”—similarly echoed McCaffrey’s statement that “the solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.”
This tradition of critiquing the drug war while continuing to wage it was similarly evident in the 2012 claim by the ONDCP that marijuana’s potency has “almost tripled over the past 20 years”—a statement only slightly less hysterical than its warning to parents, ten years earlier, describing today’s marijuana as having “potency levels ten to twenty times stronger” than the pot of their generation. Anti-legalization advocate Kevin Sabet, who worked on drug policy under both George W. Bush and Obama, has described the potency of today’s marijuana as “five-to-six times greater” than the pot that baby boomers smoked in their youth. (While it’s true that you can buy stronger pot today, you can also—thanks to the botanical tinkering of the medical marijuana community—find strains that are milder. If boomers can’t find the pot of their youth these days—stuff grown and sold before the Controlled Substances Act—it’s because prohibition historically encourages a disproportionately high potency-to-volume ratio. See: bathtub gin.)
Nevertheless, Obama’s drug policy was hailed as revolutionary by the press even as the Drug Enforcement Administration wreaked havoc on medical marijuana communities in California, Colorado and Montana during his first term. On September 25, 2012, in the midst of re-election season, the DEA tried to shut down more than seventy medical marijuana dispensaries in and around Los Angeles. According to LA Weekly’s reporting at the time, “Federal authorities sent warning letters—which tell operators to shut down—to 68 stores. Additionally, three shops were hit with asset-forfeiture lawsuits and another three were raided via search warrant.”

Yet the next day, CNN ran a segment titled “The ‘War on Drugs’ Withdrawal: Administration Focusing on Prevention.”
Ineffective messaging was clearly not the problem. By November 2012, Americans likely knew as much as an average person could be expected to know about Obama’s supposed public-health-centered approach to drug policy. Yet in Colorado, Washington and Massachusetts (states where medical marijuana was on the ballot), voters still pulled the lever in favor of liberalization. In Arkansas—a state that Mitt Romney won by a landslide—a medical marijuana initiative received more votes than Obama.
Support for legalization has only increased in the last year. A Gallup poll released in late October found that 58 percent of Americans think recreational marijuana should be legal. A Public Policy Polling survey conducted weeks earlier found majority support for legalizing pot in deep-red Texas. A legalization initiative in Portland, Maine, had majority support as of late October, and studies suggest that if Californians voted on the issue today, they’d legalize pot despite refusing to do so in 2010. As with so many issues, the federal government is lagging behind the rest of the country.

 

This actually has very little to do with Trump. This ban on fed funds for medical marijuana busts has been in the budget the last two times it came up. The only thing Trump did was not to try and remove it.
It's the same wording that Obama signed twice.

 

Division B, section 537 provides that the Department of Justice may not use any funds to prevent implementation of medical marijuana laws by various States and territories.

Trump has done more with this than any other president before him with regards to decriminalization on the federal level. It's a first step.

Are you telling me you see the glass as half empty with this?

 

No, I'm happy he signed it. I'm just saying that this isn't anything Trump did other than allow this same rider to stay in the budget directives as Obama did the last two times it came up. Same-o Same-o... it's all good.

 

No, Obama never had Division B, section 537 or anything like it in any laws or spending bill's he signed....

 

I say the time for federal decriminalization is around the corner but it will have to continue to evolve. No President wants their legacy to be the PotPrez .It'll Happen, just at a snails pace.

 

Oh fuck Natural Boy you are just flat fucking hilarious. And once again I can only marvel at your stupid ignorance (two different things) as well as your very serious reading comprehension problems.

In the first paragraph ONE Obama official is crying about President Obama NOT BEING HARD ENOUGH on marijuana.

And then later you prove the point I made. President Obama and Eric Holder shut down the raids and prosecutions of medical marijuana dispensaries that were happening in his first term. And then went ahead giving the states the green light to legalize recreational marijuana and even helped them be able to use banks and credit cards.

I swear you have me laughing at you so hard I can barely type this.

 

While this is true I think the corner just got a lot longer. Both Trump and AG Sessions are anti-marijuana which is fueling the hardliners in congress to also come out of the woodwork to rail against legal pot.

And Sessions could very well follow through on his threats to crack down on states that have legalized marijuana.

So while the country becomes more and more in favor of legalizing pot with Trump and Sessions we've definitely takes a couple big steps backward.

 

Like I said, I'm glad Trump signed off on this but it isn't anything new. Here's something from 2014.
www.google.com/amp/www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-medical-pot-20141216-story,amp.html

 

That is exactly why we have been so successful at the state level. We the people cast our vote and legalize each state. You can't count on gutless politicians to do the right thing. At some point soon, the towel will be thrown in. But until then, I'm glad I live in a legal state.

 

Even Hitler had some good ideas.

 

There was no direct wording or a specific law like Division B, section 537 in the spending measure singed by Obama in 2014. Hell the article and link you provided gives more credit to the Republicans in Congress for the progress made at the federal level with regards to marijuana prohibition reform.

This is from your link Rix.

Tucked deep inside the 1,603-page federal spending measure is a provision that effectively ends the federal government's prohibition on medical marijuana and signals a major shift in drug policy.


Republicans are taking a prominent role in backing states' right to allow use of a drug the federal government still officially classifies as more dangerous than cocaine.

"This is a victory for so many," said the measure's coauthor, Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of Costa Mesa. The measure's approval, he said, represents "the first time in decades that the federal government has curtailed its oppressive prohibition of marijuana."

 

Once again, liberals just cannot bring themselves to admit they were wrong about anything. If Donald Trump's administration changed the way research was done and cured every life threatening disease in the world, increasing life expectancy by 50 years, while vastly improving the quality of life among our senior citizens and restoring a robust economy that saved Social Security for the next 200 years, along with gains in environmental conditions, they would still proclaim that Donald Trump is a idiot. It really isn't about truth to the socialist/communist elite, it's about power, absolute power and the majority of average liberals believe anything they say. Hey see what I did there? I just inadvertently insulted our liberal friends, how dare I say they are average! lol!

 

I don't know how many times I have to tell you. This is the same thing that has been in the spending bill and has been signed on three times now. Twice by Obama and now once by Trump. I congratulate him for doing the right thing there but all he did was sign on to an existing bill.

"The Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, which was drafted to prevent the Justice Department from spending tax dollars to harass the medical marijuana community. The protections detailed in this massive $1 trillion spending bill states that NONE of the money made available to the Department of Justice can be used to “prevent any [states] from implementing their own laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana. Congress has renewed the amendment every year since it was first approved in 2014.”

Rohrabacher–Farr amendment
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Rohrabacher–Farr amendment is legislation first introduced by U.S. Reps. Maurice Hinchey, Dana Rohrabacher, and Sam Farr in 2003, prohibiting the Justice Department from spending funds to interfere with the implementation of state medical marijuana laws. It passed the House in May 2014 after six previously failed attempts, becoming law in December 2014 as part of an omnibus spending bill. The passage of the amendment was the first time either chamber of Congress had voted to protect medical marijuana patients, and is viewed as a historic victory for marijuana reform advocates at the federal level.[1] The amendment does not change the legal status of marijuana however, and must be renewed each fiscal year in order to remain in effect.[2]

Legislative history[edit]
Initially known as the Hinchey–Rohrabacher amendment with U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey as its chief sponsor, the amendment was defeated by a vote of 152–273 upon its initial introduction in 2003. It was defeated five more times over the next decade until it passed the House by a 219–189 vote on May 30, 2014, as an attachment to the CJS Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2015.[3] The amendment was then introduced in the Senate by Sens. Rand Paul and Cory Booker on June 18,[4] but did not receive a vote.[5] In December, however, the amendment was inserted (without a vote) into the $1.1 trillion "cromnibus" spending bill as part of final negotiations,[6] and the bill was signed into law by President Obama on December 16, 2014.[7]

The Rohrabacher–Farr amendment passed the House for a second time on June 3, 2015, by a 242–186 vote.[8] It was voted on by members of the Senate for the first time on June 11, 2015, winning approval in a 21–9 Appropriations Committee vote led by sponsor Barbara Mikulski.[9] The amendment remained in the FY 2016 omnibus appropriations bill that was signed into law by President Obama on December 18, 2015.[10][11]

The Rohrabacher–Farr amendment was not voted on by the House in 2016, but did pass the Senate Appropriations Committee for a second time on April 21, 2016, by a 21–8 vote.[12] In September 2016, the amendment was included in a short-term spending bill passed by Congress and signed into law,[13] allowing it to remain in effect until December when it was again renewed in the same way.[14] The most recent extension expires on April 28, 2017.[14]


Same-o, Same-o.