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03 Dec 2016, 10:49 am

From last April:

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...Sessions made waves in April when he said during a Senate hearing that lawmakers and other government leaders need to send a clear message that marijuana is dangerous and that "good people don't smoke marijuana ,"...

Yahoo: As Trump's AG, how might Sessions crack down on recreational marijuana?

Apart from this being a disturbing attitude towards cannabis, it is most disturbing for his reference to "good people." I fear we will find out more about what good and not good people do over the next 4 years.

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03 Dec 2016, 11:24 am

Says the man who defended the practice of executing the mentally handicapped. I'd hate to see what he thinks about us.

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03 Dec 2016, 12:56 pm

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I think marijuana legalization/decriminalization is more popular than prohibition anymore, so any politician who wants to try and bring it to a screeching halt and stop states legalizing it will likely fail, not to mention now it is a states right issue.

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03 Dec 2016, 1:10 pm

Trump said he would leave it to the States, but his mind is easily changed.

Legalization is supposed to take place federally next spring up here in Canada. I so hope it happens.

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03 Dec 2016, 8:52 pm

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Says the man who defended the practice of executing the mentally handicapped. I'd hate to see what he thinks about us.

Not to mention being a racist, and calling the gutting of the civil rights act to be the best thing to happen for the south.

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03 Dec 2016, 11:47 pm

Marijuana is a mental poison which damages the moral condition of people. At least Sessions is sensible enough to see this.

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03 Dec 2016, 11:50 pm

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Marijuana is a mental poison which damages the moral condition of people. At least Sessions is sensible enough to see this.

Is there science to back that up?

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03 Dec 2016, 11:51 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:

yelekam wrote:

Marijuana is a mental poison which damages the moral condition of people. At least Sessions is sensible enough to see this.

Is there science to back that up?

No.

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03 Dec 2016, 11:54 pm

usually they say "it's a gateway drug" to far worse

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04 Dec 2016, 1:01 am

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usually they say "it's a gateway drug" to far worse

Which, in most cases, has been proven untrue.

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04 Dec 2016, 11:38 am

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Marijuana is a mental poison which damages the moral condition of people. At least Sessions is sensible enough to see this.

Do you have any evidence, besides sermonizing, to offer??? Are you saying this because of the reputation of alcohol, which there IS evidence against??? Do you go about warning people about the real dangers of alcohol? Do you lack education concerning the subject of marijuana?

Can you give us concrete evidence which shows this substance "damages the moral condition of" even ONE actual real life person?? Not the BS style un-provable "evidence" of ..."the terrible state of our youth today" type of nonsense. Perhaps another reader can give us a personal example?

Not to say people (of a certain mindset/condition) can't be brought low by associating with the wrong drugs (my brother comes to mind) but you'll have a hard time generalizing to pin this kind of susceptibility on the general population, SINCE YOU HAVE NO REAL PROOF. NONE

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04 Dec 2016, 12:04 pm

Welp....

Doesn't matter if pot is legalized when jobs can make you take a drug screen, and exclude you because of it.

My state says even if you have a medical marijuana, work places can still drug screen and fire/not hire you.

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05 Dec 2016, 11:27 am

Tawaki wrote:

I know where you're coming from. But would you have us pass more laws to force all individual business owners to follow the rules of the State? Hmmmm. Sounds familiar...kind of like Cuba; no thanks! I'll stick with our democratic form of government, and if that means I don't get what I want every time, so be it.

Employers are generally allowed to hire who they wish....as long as they can't be proven to discriminate against a specific "class" of people, and I hardly think potheads are a separate class of people.

You'll just have to get over it.

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05 Dec 2016, 1:33 pm

Tawaki wrote:

In a lot of cases its not the employer that actually wants employees drug tested, some bushinesses are required to do it even if they'd opt not to if left up to the employer. I think pre-employment drug testing is B.S, but there is fake pee and perhaps people ought to petition to get rid of such tests.

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05 Dec 2016, 2:49 pm

ZenDen wrote:

Tawaki wrote:

Welp.... Doesn't matter if pot is legalized when jobs can make you take a drug screen, and exclude you because of it. My state says even if you have a medical marijuana, work places can still drug screen and fire/not hire you.

You'll just have to get over it.

What does she have to "get-over"? She didn't say anything, like: "Oh, I'm not liking this, ONE bit!"----so, I'm quite curious.....

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05 Dec 2016, 2:58 pm

The prejudice against cannabis ticks me off. Alcohol is much more dangerous and our culture worships it.

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