DLTooley
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We should consider the recent statements regarding Federal Cannabis enforcement by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Sessions is encouraging US Attorneys to step up enforcement, but there has been push back.
Here in Colorado, Senator Cory Gardner has opposed the policy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/us/politics/trump-marijuana-policy-bipartisan-fire.html
The Colorado US Attorney has followed his lead.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-co/pr/...ent-regarding-marijuana-prosecutions-colorado
There is nothing clear on Arizona, but there is this:
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news...ts-arizona-medical-cannabis-sessions-10015268
Saliently the article notes:
"As former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio used to complain, the policy at the Arizona U.S. Attorney's Office for years has been to prosecute only the (non-border-trafficking) cannabis cases that involve more than 500 pounds. Typically, the only time that federal authorities bust average folks for minor possession cases, as New Times has found in court records, is when rangers catch someone with cannabis in federal parks."
Curiously yours truly is aware of two cases in which Colorado Senator Gardner has been involved in US Attorney policy of a more nefarious nature - the Gold King Mine disaster on the Animas River, a tributary of the Colorado and a local wetlands federal development permit. I'm already a test case on aspects of both of those.
Sessions is encouraging US Attorneys to step up enforcement, but there has been push back.
Here in Colorado, Senator Cory Gardner has opposed the policy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/us/politics/trump-marijuana-policy-bipartisan-fire.html
The Colorado US Attorney has followed his lead.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-co/pr/...ent-regarding-marijuana-prosecutions-colorado
There is nothing clear on Arizona, but there is this:
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news...ts-arizona-medical-cannabis-sessions-10015268
Saliently the article notes:
"As former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio used to complain, the policy at the Arizona U.S. Attorney's Office for years has been to prosecute only the (non-border-trafficking) cannabis cases that involve more than 500 pounds. Typically, the only time that federal authorities bust average folks for minor possession cases, as New Times has found in court records, is when rangers catch someone with cannabis in federal parks."
Curiously yours truly is aware of two cases in which Colorado Senator Gardner has been involved in US Attorney policy of a more nefarious nature - the Gold King Mine disaster on the Animas River, a tributary of the Colorado and a local wetlands federal development permit. I'm already a test case on aspects of both of those.
