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I know at least a handful of Trump voters who are saying at the very least they will not be voting for Republicans next election over this.

Old farts have a distinct talent for destroying the Republican Party just when it starts to gain steam.

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Either shut it down decisively or delist it as a federally controlled substance.

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Or some people might believe broadly in the concept of personal freedom and individual responsibility and they might think that just because some public servant took a tax funded job they should not have much of a say in how others live.

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Just legalize it already.

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It’s still “full steam ahead” for California’s recreational pot operation, says official.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/marijuana-states-sessions_us_58b380cce4b0780bac2a7468
Communities are rising up green and steeling for a “states’ rights” battle over the cultivation and sale of recreational marijuana — despite a warning about a crackdown by the federal government.

“There’s still a federal law that we need to abide by when it comes to recreational marijuana,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said last week. “Recreational use ... is something the Department of Justice will be looking into,” he said, emphasizing: “I do believe you’ll see greater enforcement” of federal law.

Pot remains illegal under the federal Controlled Substances Act, even though recreational use of marijuana has been approved in eight states and Washington, D.C. It’s legal for medical use in 30 states.

Now growers, smokers and even state officials are preparing to guard the crop across the nation. A major concern is revenue. The non-profit Tax Foundation estimates that a mature legalized marijuana industry would generate up to $28 billion in tax revenue for federal, state and local governments. Colorado raked in $70 million in taxes in 2015, exceeding expectations.

A report on jobs predicts that the legal marijuana industry in the U.S. could create more than 250,000 jobs by the year 2020, Forbes reports. That’s more than projected job gains from manufacturing, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In Washington, the first state with Colorado to legalize recreational use of the drug, the state attorney general vowed to defy a federal crackdown.

“I will resist any efforts by the Trump administration to undermine the will of the voters in Washington state,” Ferguson told the Seattle Times.


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-threat-recreational-marijuana-industry-colorado/
Widespread availability is changing attitudes. Americans once opposed legal pot. But a poll this month showed 71 percent do not want the government enforcing federal laws against marijuana in states that have already legalized medical or recreational marijuana.

The issue is a tough one for Colorado’s Gov. John Hickenlooper who opposed the state’s constitutional amendment making recreational pot legal. But now that it is legal, he said he wouldn’t allow state cops to join any federal crackdown.

“If the Justice Department does aggressively begin to prosecute and try to enforce federal law in states like Colorado, where it’s in our constitution, I think that is a step backwards,” Hickenlooper said.

As pot goes mainstream, it’s creating a lot of jobs – as many as 22,000 in Colorado.

“Instead of a cartel from somewhere else some other country, we are American grown, we are American sold, and we are American consumed,” Nassau said.

“For American jobs?” Petersen asked.

“For American jobs. What more can you ask for?” Nassau said.

Pot is sold in containers meant to be childproof, and it’s not sold to anyone under 21. But those in the black market don’t have those kinds of scruples. They will sell to anyone, and that includes kids.

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Pot was decriminalized in my state for anything under a half ounce, which is like a parking ticket. A guy just recently got a ticket for a roach in his ashtray ( what is left if you smoke a joint) and after paying his fine the state stepped in and took his registered AW AR15.

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I commented in another thread about Mexico that if Trump legalized marijuana, but only if grown in the US would have huge tax benefits for the US and huge monetary losses for Mexico.

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Gun ownership should be governed by the states????

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Delist it and move on.

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Pot was decriminalized in my state for anything under a half ounce, which is like a parking ticket. A guy just recently got a ticket for a roach in his ashtray ( what is left if you smoke a joint) and after paying his fine the state stepped in and took his registered AW AR15.

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https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/86631/2Capture-155258.JPG

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All of this tax revenue from pot, is it regular business, sales and income tax or is there another new tax specifically for pot?

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Marijuana should be governed by the  states. Feds have bigger things to worry about.

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It's either retarded way to spend political capital to appease the church lady crowd

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Either shut it down decisively or delist it as a federally controlled substance.

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Either shut it down decisively or delist it as a federally controlled substance.

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Just legalize it already.

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Marijuana should be governed by the  states. Feds have bigger things to worry about.

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Delist it and move on.

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Trump ran on the rule of law, so I'm surprised people are surprised.  The DREAMer E.O. was carried out by differed prosecutions and ignoring laws. Repeal prohibition or prosecute, anything less is bullshit.

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Marijuana should be governed by the  states. Feds have bigger things to worry about.

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How bout we vote on it?