RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA, AND THAT IS ACCORDING TO NEW REPORTS
ABOUT DONALD TRUMP'S TASK FORCE ON CRIME REDUCTION AND
PUBLIC SAFETY.
SO THAT TASK FORCE IS ABOUT TO RELEASE A REPORT SOON ON HOW
THEY ARE GOING TO TACKLE CRIME IN AMERICA, BUT THEY WILL ALSO
UNDERTAKE A REVIEW OF EXISTING POLICIES IN THE AREAS OF
CHARGING, SENTENCING, AND MARIJUANA, TO ENSURE CONSISTENCY
WITH THE DEPARTMENT'S OVERALL STRATEGY ON REDUCING VIOLENT
CRIME, AND WITH ADMINISTRATION GOALS AND PRIORITIES.
THAT IS A STATEMENT FROM JEFF SESSIONS, WHO OF COURSE IS THE
HEAD OF THE DOJ, AND HE HAS BEEN ON THE RECORD, COUNTLESS TIMES,
TALKING ABOUT HOW TERRIBLE HE THINKS MARIJUANA IS; HOW THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO CRACKDOWN ON STATES THAT HAVE
LEGALIZED MARIJUANA.
SESSIONS SENT A LETTER IN MAY, ASKING CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS TO
DO AWAY WITH AN AMENDMENT TO THE DOJ BUDGET OR HITTING THE AGENCY
FROM USING FEDERAL FUNDS TO PREVENT STATES FROM IMPLANTING
THEIR OWN STATE LAWS THAT AUTHORIZE THE USE, DISTRIBUTION,
POSSESSION, OR CULTIVATION OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA.
SO, I HAVE MORE DETAILS ON THIS, AND INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, THE
ONLY THING THAT COULD SAVE US FROM THIS NONSENSE IS THE FACT
THAT TRUMP HAS SEEMED TO HAVE TURNED ON JEFF SESSIONS, SO WHO
KNOWS, JEFF SESSIONS MAY BE ON HIS WAY OUT, AND THAT MAY HAVE
AN EFFECT.
LET'S TALK ABOUT THEIR CURRENT PLAN, AND THEN MAYBE A BIT OF
HOPE THAT THIS GUY GETS FIRED.
FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS, OF COURSE.
SO, THAT MEANS THAT IF YOUR STATE LEGALIZED MARIJUANA
THEY ARE LIKE, WE DON'T CARE, WE ARE GOING TO COME PROSECUTE
YOU ANYWAY.
8 STATES HAVE ALREADY LEGALIZED MARIJUANA FOR RECREATIONAL
PURPOSES; 21 STATES ADDITIONALLY HAVE SAID FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA.
STATES RIGHTS.
JEFF SESSIONS, AND THE SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS, NONSTOP TALK ABOUT
STATES RIGHTS, BECAUSE THEY WANT TO TAKE AWAY BLACK PEOPLE'S
RIGHTS, THEN THEY GO, BUT THE STATE OF ALABAMA HAS EVERY
RIGHT IN THE WORLD TO TREAT PLAQUES ANYWAY THEY LIKE.
NOW, WHEN YOU SAY 29 STATES HAVE ALSO STATES RIGHTS TO DO AS
THEIR VOTERS DEMANDED IN THEIR DEMOCRACY.
NO, YOU DON'T HAVE MANY STATES RIGHTS.
WE WERE JUST MESSING AROUND.
WE HATE BY PEOPLE.
WE WANT TO ENVISION THEM FOR ñ SMOKING MARIJUANA, AND WE WANT
TO IMPRISON THEM IN THE SOUTH, SO STATES RIGHTS ARE A JOKE.
SO, WHILE I DO AGREE THAT THE ISSUE OF STATES RIGHTS ONLY
SEEMS TO GET RAISED WHILE IT'S CONVENIENT FOR THOSE ON THE
RIGHT, THE REALITY IS ñ AND THIS IS ANOTHER THING THAT KIND OF
GIVES ME A LITTLE BIT OF HOPE ñ EVERYBODY LOVES MARIJUANA.
DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE DEMOCRAT, REPUBLICAN,
EVERYONE LOVES MARIJUANA.
A LOT OF PEOPLE, FROM BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES, USE A
LOT OF MARIJUANA.
THIS IS ANECDOTAL, BUT I WAS CURIOUS TO SEE WHAT A RIGHT-WING
COMMENTARY ON THE STORY WOULD BE, AND BASED ON A LOT OF
COMMENTS THAT I READ, A LOT OF RIGHT-WINGERS WERE LIKE, NO NO,
THIS IS A STATES RIGHTS ISSUE, DON'T TOUCH MY MARIJUANA.
NOW THAT THEY ARE GETTING HIGH, IT'S A STATES RIGHTS ISSUE.
BUT FOR YEARS THEY WERE OPENLY HYPOCRITICAL.
I DON'T CARE ABOUT STATES RIGHTS IF I WANT TO TAKE YOUR
RIGHTS AWAY, AND IF I WANT TO TAKE YOUR RIGHTS AWAY THEN
I'M WHAT YOU STATES RIGHTS AS A PROP.
OKAY, SO, FOR REPUBLICANS LIKE JEFF SESSIONS, WHO NOW SAY
THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT HOW YOUR STATE VOTED, THEY ARE NEVER
EVER ALLOWED TO SAY STATES RIGHTS AGAIN, BECAUSE THEY
DON'T BELIEVE IT.
NOW, IT GETS WORSE.
THEY WANT TO EXPLORE USE OF ASSET FORFEITURE MORE.
THAT'S RIGHT, THEY WANT TO AMPLIFY CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE,
WHICH IS WHEN AUTHORITIES WILL SEIZE AND POSSESS YOUR PROPERTY
AND MONEY, IN AN INVESTIGATION, IF THEY SUSPECT THAT YOU EITHER
POSSESS, OR ARE TRAFFICKING DRUGS, AND A LOT OF TIMES
INNOCENT PEOPLE GET CAUGHT UP IN THIS, AND EVEN IF THEY'VE NEVER
BEEN CHARGED ñ THEY WERE EVER CONVICTED OF ANYTHING, NO
WRONGDOING WHATSOEVER ñ THEY HAVE A VERY DIFFICULT TIME
GETTING THEIR PROPERTY AND THEIR MONEY BACK, BECAUSE IT
COSTS RESOURCES TO GO TO COURT AND DEMAND THAT STUFF BACK.
YOU DON'T AUTOMATICALLY GET YOUR STUFF BACK IF YOU ARE NOT
EVEN CHARGED.
YOU HAVE TO GO OUT OF YOUR WAY TO TRY TO COMMENCE THE
GOVERNMENT TO GIVE YOU YOUR STUFF BACK.
IN OVER 90% OF THE CASES, THEY NEVER GET IT BACK.
SO, IF YOUR CAR HAS LEGAL, MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN 29
OUT OF THE 50 STATES, THE FEDERAL COPS COME IN AND
THEY GO, LEGALLY YOU, ILLEGALLY ME, I'M TAKING THE MARIJUANA AND
I'M TAKING YOUR CAR, AND 90% OF THE TIME HE WON'T GET IT BACK.
JESUS, CAN YOU IMAGINE IF THEY STOLE YOUR CAR?
AND THAT'S WHAT IT WOULD BE.
IT IS A THEFT BY THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, FROM AMERICAN
CITIZENS.
BY THE WAY, THEY CAN COME INTO YOUR HOUSE.
YOU CAN HAVE LEGAL MARIJUANA IN YOUR HOUSE, THEY WILL TAKE
YOUR HOUSE.
THEY ARE STEALING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FROM
YOU BECAUSE YOU HAD A LEGAL JOINT IN YOUR HOUSE.
THIS IS A CRIME AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
ABSOLUTELY.
THIS IS WHO JEFF SESSIONS, AND THESE BACKWARDS REPUBLICANS ARE.
AND I THINK THE MOST SHOCKING PART OF ALL OF THIS IS THE FACT
THAT THE KEEBLER ELF DOESN'T USE MARIJUANA.
DO YOU THINK HE WOULD BE SMOKING MARIJUANA WHILE MAKING HIS
COOKIES?
YOU NOW REPUBLICANS ARE, YOU THINK HE DOESN'T USE IT?
WHO KNOWS?
THERE'S NO WAY HE DOES.
I FEEL LIKE THAT WOULD CHANGE HIM REAL QUICK.
ANA, THERE IS NO WAY ALL THOSE ANTI-GAY RIGHTS REPUBLICANS
ARE ACTUALLY GAY.
NO I KNOW, BUT MARIJUANA DOES THINGS TO YOU, YOU KNOW
WHAT I MEAN?
THERE'S NO END TO DEMOCRACY.
SO, ONE LAST THING.
NEW ORLEANS FORMER SUPERINTENDENT, AND COCHAIRMAN
OF LAW-ENFORCEMENT LEADERS TO REDUCE CRIME AND INCARCERATION,
SAID, WHAT ARE WE DOING RUNNING AFTER MARIJUANA FOR?
HE SAID, THAT'S NOT WHAT'S CAUSING THE VIOLENCE AND
THE CRIME.
HE SAID, IT'S CRACK, POWDER COCAINE, HEROIN AND OPIOIDS.
HE'S NOT SOFT ON CRIME.
HE'S LIKE, THOSE DRUGS DO CAUSE CRIME, AND WE SHOULD GO AFTER
THEM, BUT YOU ARE TELLING ME TO TAKE RESOURCES AWAY FROM THAT,
AND PUT IT INTO MARIJUANA, WHICH IS LEGAL IN THESE 29 STATES, AND
CHASE AFTER THAT, AND GRAB PEOPLE'S PROPERTY DOING IT.
THIS IS CRAZY.
SO, LOOK, IF JEFF SESSIONS GETS FIRED BY DONALD TRUMP, IT
IS NOT BECAUSE OF THIS.
TRUMP DOESN'T MIND THIS AT ALL.
HE SAID HE BELIEVED THE STATES ALONE ON THIS.
AS ALWAYS, TRUMP IS A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR, LIED
ABOUT IT, AND PUT SESSIONS IN PLACE KNOWING EXACTLY WHAT
HE WAS GOING TO DO.
TRUMP WILL ONLY GET BIT OF SESSIONS BECAUSE SESSIONS
HAS NOT COVERED UP HIS CRIMES ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT, THAT'S
WHAT HE'S MAD ABOUT.
BUT IF HE DID THIS, GOT RID OF SESSIONS, IT WOULD BE THE
ONE GOOD THING COMING OUT OF THE RUSSIAN COLLUSION STORY.
THAT'S TRUE.
BUT FOR THE MOMENT BEING, THIS IS THE REPUBLICAN'S GUIDE.
HE'S THE STANDARDBEARER, HE'S THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
SO, IF YOU DON'T WANT YOUR RIGHT TO SMOKE MARIJUANA TAKEN
AWAY, AS A FREE AMERICAN CITIZEN, WELL THEN, VOTE AGAINST
REPUBLICANS, BECAUSE THERE AREN'T DEMOCRATS DOING THIS.
THE ONLY PEOPLE LEFT IN POLITICS WERE ON THE SIDE, NOW,
PRETTY MUCH, ARE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
SO, IF YOU VOTE FOR THEM, AND YOU PUT JEFF SESSIONS IN
PLACE, THEY DON'T COME CRYING TO US, BECAUSE YOU ñ
WE TOLD YOU HE WOULD DO IT.