When California started 2018 by formally legalizing weed, it felt like a blow to Canada’s cool cred. California has more people and a bigger economy than Canada, and it made legalization happen January 1, while prime minister Justin Trudeau is already losing his nerve for what had seemed a firm July 1 deadline. That’s weak, Canada.
Luckily for Canuck pride, with Donald Trump in charge the USA can always go weaker.
“Previous nationwide guidance specific to marijuana enforcement is unnecessary and is rescinded, effective immediately.”
Yesterday America’s attorney general Jeff Sessions issued a memo doubling down on the war on drugs. Reminding US prosecutors “that marijuana is a dangerous drug and that marijuana activity is a serious crime,” he told them to forget about the Obama administration’s decision to let individual states go their own way around recreational and medical pot use. Citing five Obama-era memos on the subject, Sessions writes that “previous nationwide guidance specific to marijuana enforcement is unnecessary and is rescinded, effective immediately.”
Criticism has come fast, and from both parties, uniting American politicians against Trump in a way that even the threat of nuclear war with North Korea hasn’t been able to. So that’s good?
Stephen Colbert’s x-ray vision take is Sessions thinks targeting pot advances the bigger Trumpian war on Black people. Apparently Sessions doesn’t realize white folks are really into weed. Watch Colbert below.
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This article appears in Jan 4-10, 2018.
Meh! ‘Mericans…
Too many people employed in the DEA, federal legalization will never happen. Stay in the stone ages ‘Murica, I’m sure the lawwd will take care of you….
“Stephen Colbert thinks its related to Donald Trumps war on Black people.”
When it he a exert? Also US data shows it white people over African Americans? It is clear the Coast did not even do research on this.