Trump administration hints at crackdown on recreational pot!

[napi21]

http://nypost.com/2017/02/23/trump-administration-hints-at-crackdown-on-recreational-pot/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow&sr_share=twitter

States and localities that have approved recreational pot smoking can expect “greater enforcement” under the Trump administration, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday.

President Trump understands how medical marijuana can alleviate “pain and suffering” for sick patients, but recreational pot smoking is “the last thing” the federal government should be enabling, he said.

“There’s a big difference between that and recreational marijuana and I think that when you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states across this country, the last thing we should be doing is encouraging people,” Spicer said.

“There is still a federal law that we need to abide by.”

I'm thinkin he's gonna have a BIG BATTLE on his hands with this plan. Especially with those State who have already enjoyed all that nice tax money .in their treasury!

[samnsara]

1. we voted on our legal pot....

... so our entire state was for it....how about making Vegas prostitution illegal??

[greymattermom]

2. Ask him if he will drug test his cabinet and white house staff

This will bring him down.

[dawg]

3. But her emails ...

Take that, Gary Johnson voters!

[samnsara]

4. stupid spicer doesnt realize....

pot takes the place of opiate use. My sis weaned herself off prescribed morphine when she crossed the border from Idaho to Wash state to obtain legal pot.

[Mr. Ected]

5. Whatever happened to states rights, GOP?

Another brick in the Republican foundation that turned out to be a lie.

[Raster]

7. Silly Mr. States rights only apply if States want to discriminate against Black people...

...and then the Feds are all over that like a cheap suit, other than that, they'll do what they're told.

[yardwork]

11. And gay people. And women. The Republicans only believe in certain people's rights.

[Raster]

14. YES!

[roamer65]

6. I can see this issue dividing the union permanently.

The west coast is gonna tell Dump to fuck off.

[yardwork]

12. They already did.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. That Federal law makes zero distinction between medical and recreational, spicey.

But it's time for congress to step up and fix this once and for all. In case Trumptown hasn't noticed, a lot of their otherwise erstwhile "allies" support leaving the states alone on this.

[ananda]

9. Boy the private prison industry must be happy!

All those detained immigrants, and now more people
who smoke pot.

[madokie]

15. Pot smokers for the most part are good workers too

as well as the immigrants so yeah the for profit prison industry is HAPPY CAMPERS about right now

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

17. Is enriching their Private Prison cronies the main reason or just the icing on the cake?

It's hard to know anything for sure with the weasels in the current admin.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

10. Oh, good to see the pResident has his priorities straight.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

13. Love that small government, getting the Feds out of everything. NT

[jalan48]

16. What a waste of taxpayer money. I thought we had to cut government programs because we are broke.