“The initiative and referendum process continues to serve as a direct popular vote alternative to the crapshoot that is trying to get a pot bill through two houses and signed by a governor.”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/feb/06/six_states_could_pass_marijuana
“Former Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) discusses Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to rescind the Obama-era policy of non-interference in marijuana-friendly states.”
“The group of 54 lawmakers sent a letter to the president on Thursday asking him to go against Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ attempts to roll back protections on state marijuana laws, reports Marijuana Moment‘s Tom Angell.
As a candidate, you stated: ‘I really believe we should leave [marijuana] up to the states’ and that ‘it’s got to be a state decision.’ We trust that you still hold this belief, and we request that you urge the Attorney General to reinstate the Cole Memorandum,
wrote the group of lawmakers led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO).”
“Attorney General Jeff Sessions is actively lobbying Congress to overturn existing law prohibiting federal interference in state medical-marijuana policy. As someone who believes in strong constitutional limits on federal power and the rights of patients to choose, I am deeply disappointed. And as a cancer survivor who wanted the choice for myself, I wonder: does Sessions have any idea what it’s like?”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/jeff-sessions-should-ask-cancer-patients-about-cannabis/
“Today Vermont Gov. Phil Scott signed a bill making his state the ninth to legalize marijuana for recreational use and the first to do so through the legislature rather than a ballot initiative. The new law, which takes effect on July 1, allows adults 21 or older to possess up to an ounce of marijuana in public, to grow up to six plants (two of them mature at any one time) per household, and to keep whatever they produce.”
Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/01/22/vermont-becomes-the-ninth-state-to-legal
“Most of the states with dropping populations are high tax states. California, Rhode Island, and New York are all expected to lose Congressional seats. Illinois is hit especially hard with a fleeing populace, so much so that it may lose two seats.”
“The state of New California would incorporate most of the state’s rural counties, leaving the urban coastal counties to the current state of California. But unlike other separation movements in the past, the state of New California wants to do things by the book, citing Article 4, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution and working with the state legislature to get it done, similar to the way West Virginia was formed.”
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-california-declares-independence-from-rest-of-state/
“With legal marijuana enjoying consistent majority support in opinion polls—a Pew poll released Friday at support at 61%–the blowback has been immediate, fierce, and across the board. Feeling particularly vulnerable, legal pot state Republicans howled especially loudly.”
Read more: https://www.alternet.org/drugs/america-declares-war-jeff-sessions-threatened-war-weed
“Attorney General Jeff Sessions has pulled off something that would have been unthinkable just a few years back: he managed to rally Republican lawmakers behind weed.”
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-to-jeff-sessions-get-your-hands-off-our-weed
“The Free Republic of Liberland wishes you a happy new year.”
Read more: http://liberlandpress.com/2017/12/happy-new-year-2018-liberland/
