Sessions: ‘Good people don’t smoke marijuana’
Racism isn’t the only problem with Trump’s choice for attorney general.
Click here for reuse options!…Sessions can do plenty of damage without any congressional action. As attorney general, he would set the guidelines prosecutors follow in deciding what cases and charges to bring. In 2013, Eric Holder Jr. ordered his prosecutors to avoid the most severe charges in low-level nonviolent drug cases, which has helped cut the number of absurdly long sentences for minor players. Mr. Sessions could reverse that with the stroke of a pen. He could just as easily reverse Mr. Holder’s decision not to interfere with state marijuana laws, likely ramping up prosecutions even as states continue to legalize the drug for medicinal or recreational use. “Good people don’t smoke marijuana,” he said at a Senate hearing in April.
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Hirightnow November 19th, 2016 at 11:22
Good people treat everybody equally. Good people want the best for everyone,not just a few. Good people don’t hate. Good people don’t harm others. Good people are disgusted by those who would use their power to the detriment of others.
By logical extension, this means that Mr. Sessions smokes marijuana.
Hirightnow November 19th, 2016 at 13:41
Somehow, I upvoted my own comment.
This was fixed.
nola878 November 19th, 2016 at 11:32
Good people don’t call black men “boy”.
oldfart November 19th, 2016 at 11:33
Then that makes me…
https://youtu.be/IyhJ69mD7xI
Maxx44 November 19th, 2016 at 11:36
I have been a very bad boy.
oldfart November 19th, 2016 at 11:37
whatever… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/89fac1ab81c748b4bcc4be40180c7714b3e5f8935623ee92dd984c563550a595.jpg
Hirightnow November 19th, 2016 at 13:42
Just say “Yo!”
Suzanne McFly November 19th, 2016 at 11:45
Well I proudly align myself with my incredible President, if he isn’t good then I rather be bad.
Robert M. Snyder November 19th, 2016 at 11:45
Wait. What? I thought that smoking caused diseases like lung cancer that drive up healthcare costs for society. I thought that second-hand smoke was harmful to others, including children and pets, who live in the same home. I thought that the companies who produce cigarettes are greedy capitalists who are selling an addictive product. Wow. I must have been dreaming.
arc99 November 19th, 2016 at 11:48
Yes you are in fact dreaming if you think your satirical post is in any way relevant to the question of whether or not the federal government should put people in prison for cultivating a plant, in clear violation of the 9th amendment.
and please show me where even the most ardent anti smoking groups have ever advocated putting someone in jail for growing tobacco and using it in their own home.
Robert M. Snyder November 19th, 2016 at 12:26
My point is that for decades the people who manufacture tobacco products have been characterizes as “bad people”, and the people who use tobacco products have been shunned by society and told that they can’t even smoke in their own apartments because the smoke is supposedly harmful to other people living in the same building. So to the people who said these things, I say “Fine. If tobacco is bad, then marijuana is equally bad. If tobacco companies are bad, then marijuana growers are equally bad.”
Put that in your bong and smoke it.
arc99 November 19th, 2016 at 12:39
I am a cigarette smoker. The “supposed” harm of second hand smoke is quite real according to any research I have ever read on the subject.
The fact is that tobacco companies lied in Congressional testimony. That was what made them bad in the public eye. I do not know of any pot advocate who deliberately misrepresents the risks of marijuana.
The bottom line here is that Sen. Sessions’ statement is beyond idiotic. Do good people drink bourbon? If you consume too much of that beverage in a single 24 hour period, you will die. No matter how much marijuana you smoke in a 24 hour period, your worst outcome will be a headache and a hellacious sore throat.
But if it comforts you to chastise people with claims of marijuana being equally bad as tobacco using false equivalence between multi billion dollar companies lying to Congress vs small private gardeners earning a modest living, you go for it.
After the generations of reefer madness where in the 1930’s we had Congressional testimony justifying pot prohibition because it made white women want sex with negroes, I am pretty much immune to the hypocritcal nonsense of anti pot advocates.
So yes, here in California where legalization just passed by ballot initiative, I will be exercising my unenumerated 9th amendment right to cultivate my property as I see fit and use the produce in the privacy of my own home.
Robert M. Snyder November 19th, 2016 at 13:40
I don’t personally care about the legality of tobacco or marijuana. I’ve never used either one, and have no desire to do so. I am personally glad that I can go into any restaurant and not have to choose between smoking and non-smoking.
What irks me is the outright hypocrisy of many people on the Left who constantly spoke of the harm done by tobacco, but who now say absolutely nothing about the potential harm done by marijuana. I am not accusing you personally. But those who shunned and scorned tobacco smokers for decades have a lot of nerve pushing for the legal right to smoke pot.
Take the Cleveland Clinic, for example. If memory serves, they were the first major hospital to require all employees to get blood tests to detect the presence of nicotine. My neighbor is a respiratory therapist. He enjoys smoking tobacco in a pipe once per week while mowing his lawn. He could not get a job at the Cleveland Clinic. I think this is a gross invasion of his privacy. An employer should have no legal right to dictate how an employee uses a legal product on their own time outside the workplace, unless they can prove that having the substance in the bloodstream affects your work performance (as is the case with alcohol).
In recent years, many other employers have followed the Cleveland Clinic’s example. I am curious to know whether those same employers will test for THC. I don’t think it was people on the Right who pushed for those tobacco bans. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it was mainly coming from people on the Left.
So it is particularly galling to see the Left now advocating that people should be free to smoke marijuana, without any apparent concern for the social ills that they once ascribed to tobacco.
Hirightnow November 19th, 2016 at 13:43
You know,links would be helpful…
Robert M. Snyder November 19th, 2016 at 14:16
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2015/04/can-hospitals-tell-workers-not-to-smoke-at-home.html
Excerpts:
“I practice gastroenterology in Cleveland in the dark shadow of a large medical institution whose name contains the name of our city.”
“The mega-medical-mall here in Cleveland has put in place a no smoking policy on steroids. Not only can’t you smoke on the job, but you can’t some anywhere on this planet or any other extraterrestrial location. In fact, workers there will be tested periodically for nicotine to verify compliance with the edict.”
“Outlawing Camels and Marlboros at both work and play is beyond Big Brother. It’s an intrusive violation of personal freedom that should be extinguished. To those who support it, why stop with cigarettes? What other activities and behaviors should be prohibited off the job?
Hirightnow November 19th, 2016 at 18:24
Blog.
bpollen November 19th, 2016 at 20:55
Doesn’t support your point. He beefs about PRIVATE companies who choose to try to control employees legal behavior when off the clock. He doesn’t promote marijuana and call for criminalizing tobacco, nor does he actually call himself a leftist. He’s fine with restricting WHERE you can smoke while on the job.
Just went with the first thing ya found, eh?
spacegod November 20th, 2016 at 23:38
Cigarettes and cannabis are a false equivalency. Cigarette is much more detrimental to your health–you can feel it! And cigarettes don’t do anything except get you addicted and coming back for more
Whereas cannabis can spark creativity, philosophical discussions, music, and art, etc.
Robert M. Snyder November 21st, 2016 at 07:50
Few studies on the long-terms effects of marijuana use have been done. But some of the studies which have been done give cause for concern.
Consider this article from the American Psychological Association:
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2015/11/marijuana-brain.aspx
Excerpts:
“Few longitudinal studies have been conducted to follow the trajectories of young people before and after they take their first hit of marijuana. But one long-term prospective study from New Zealand showed worrisome findings.”
“Duke University psychologist Terrie Moffitt, PhD, and colleagues collected data from the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, longitudinal research that has followed 1,000 New Zealanders born in 1972. Participants answered questions about marijuana use at 18, 21, 26, 32 and 38. They also underwent neuropsychological testing at ages 13 and 38.”
“The team found that persistent marijuana use was linked to a decline in IQ, even after the researchers controlled for educational differences. The most persistent users — those who reported using the drug in three or more waves of the study — experienced a drop in neuropsychological functioning equivalent to about six IQ points (PNAS, 2012). “That’s in the same realm as what you’d see with lead exposure,” says Weiss. “It’s not a trifle.””
“Indeed, a number of studies have found evidence of brain changes in teens and young adults who smoke marijuana. In 2013, Rocío Martín-Santos, MD, PhD, at the University of Barcelona, and colleagues reviewed 43 studies of chronic cannabis use and the brain. They found consistent evidence of both structural brain abnormalities and altered neural activity in marijuana users. Only eight of those studies focused on adolescents, but the findings from those studies suggested that both structural and functional brain changes emerge soon after adolescents start using the drug. Those changes may still be evident after a month of abstaining from the drug, the researchers reported.”
oldfart November 21st, 2016 at 09:06
Who says you have to smoke it, bob ?
William November 21st, 2016 at 09:26
I stopped chiming in on this subject a while ago, because it’s clear that the Nation is going forward, by realizing that locking a kid up for a joint in his sock is stupid. I spent 16 years as a police officer in a state that decriminalized weed in 1976. In other words if you had less than an oz. and a quarter, it was the legal equivalency to a parking ticket. The state didn’t fall apart, and there wasn’t an epidemic of lethargic pot smoking monsters causing wholesale turmoil. I can tell you that in 16 years I arrested exactly two stoners, and it was for something completely unrelated to pot. Old warrants, one for a traffic violation he ignored nine years previous and another who ignored a fish and game summons years before that was decriminalized. When a heavy pot smoker tells you he simply forgot all about court, you believe him. I can tell you that of the hundreds of violent combative suspects who beat their families, almost all were under the influence of alcohol. Pot smokers, other than driving way too slow, don’t seem to want to bother anyone. They don’t want to fight you every step of the way. “Violent drunk” is a term. “Violent pot smoker” is not. In fact if you toss a snickers bar in the back of the cruiser, or tell them “we’re going to pizza hut”, they will jump in willingly. The social costs of pot vs. booze is night and day. Any cop will tell you that.
oldfart November 21st, 2016 at 09:42
But, but, alcohol is a legal, taxed activity…/s
There was a time when in my youthful days when being caught possessing a Dobie got me a dirty look and a stern warning. The Rockefeller laws of NY changed all that…as did for profit prisons.
BUT the local enforcement here, to their credit, still didn’t want to bother wasting their time on stoners.
NY will come around eventually, the obvious revenue stream of legalizing it will make it too attractive to just say no…
arc99 November 19th, 2016 at 12:43
let’s take this out of the realm of the hypothetical.
please cite an individual or organization who supports marijuana legalization and also supports criminalizing tobacco cultivation and/or sale.
or is your premise just a straw man argument with no factual basis?
Mike November 19th, 2016 at 11:52
Maybe not dreaming, but certainly attempting to conflate tobacco with pot.
I always thought the right was supportive of states rights ….?
Robert M. Snyder November 19th, 2016 at 12:20
There was no conflation. Both substances are addictive. Both substances are harmful to the lungs and airway. And both substances create second-hand smoke. Those were my points, and they are completely factual.
Furthermore, I never said that I was against tobacco. It just seems to me that if someone is in favor of the manufacture and use of marijuana products, then they have no right to oppose the manufacture and use of tobacco products.
arc99 November 19th, 2016 at 12:40
Recognizing the risks of a product does not mean you also advocate putting people in prison for manufacturing or using it.
Jungle_Bhoy November 19th, 2016 at 13:29
Sorry pal – I never smoked in my life – and I never heard of anyone getting cancer from a second-hand brownie crumb.
Hirightnow November 19th, 2016 at 13:45
Be nice..even to those you disagree with.
Kick Frenzy November 19th, 2016 at 20:56
Marijuana is not physically addictive, but tobacco is.
Marijuana has been shown to NOT adversely affect pulmonary function.
( http://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-smoking-marijuana-bad-for-your-lungs/ )
They do both produce second-hand smoke, but they do not both pose the same second-hand inhalation dangers.
Which means your points were not factual.
They are falsehoods perpetuated by ignorant propaganda.
And there are plenty of reasons why someone might approve of recreational marijuana while disapproving of tobacco use, some of which are the real facts of the issues you presented.
Robert M. Snyder November 19th, 2016 at 21:28
According to the American Thoracic Society:
“The harmful effects of tobacco smoke are well known, but we have less information about the health effects of marijuana. Few research studies have been done since marijuana remains illegal in most countries, and since marijuana can be inhaled in many ways (e.g. water pipes, joints etc). It is likely that in frequent users (and some less frequent users), marijuana harms the lungs, and that there is not a safe way to smoke marijuana.”
“Second-hand smoke (inhalation of another person’s marijuana smoke) can cause serious health problems, especially in infants and children or anyone with a chronic lung condition. Second-hand marijuana smoke contains many poisons including cyanide and ammonia.”
https://www.thoracic.org/patients/patient-resources/resources/marijuana.pdf
Kick Frenzy November 19th, 2016 at 23:05
Well, I would suggest keeping any kind of smoking product away from kids, including vapes.
And hey, that still falls under them not having the same effects.
;)
lol
meherenow November 20th, 2016 at 08:07
Yes, inhaling smoke into one’s lungs is not bad.
Kick Frenzy November 23rd, 2016 at 11:28
It’s cute how you think you’re making a valid argument against what I said.
When, in fact, I never said or implied that inhaling smoke wasn’t harmful in any manner.
But hey, feel free to keep missing the point.
Jack E Raynbeau November 19th, 2016 at 11:56
You were mistaken at “I thought”.
Hirightnow November 19th, 2016 at 16:27
Welcome to the real world, where it isn’t “those libruls” who try to control thought.
bpollen November 19th, 2016 at 20:46
See, if you READ, you’d know that the article is about “marijuana” and not “tobacco.” So you exceptionally off topic. That’s like responding to a discussion about tomatoes being a berry with “Wait, they told me Jerusalem Cherries are poisonous! I musta been hallucinating!”
fahvel November 21st, 2016 at 10:56
no dream fella – you just have no idea what you are talking about.
Robert M. Snyder November 21st, 2016 at 11:10
You’re anti-science. Sometimes the truth is hard to accept.
Hungryman November 19th, 2016 at 13:03
This guy will be worse than Nixon when it comes to marijuana.
Jungle_Bhoy November 19th, 2016 at 13:31
Good people don’t grab women’s p***ies – unless specifically asked to.
amersham1046 November 19th, 2016 at 18:42
and white collar crime will not be investigated
Gina Bousquet November 19th, 2016 at 19:02
Marijuana, you know, has that effect– it makes us better people. ;)
amersham1046 November 19th, 2016 at 19:13
Good people don’t work for Trump
robert November 19th, 2016 at 21:56
thats all we need is another joe friday
https://youtu.be/_Twre6ItGEI
meherenow November 20th, 2016 at 08:06
President Obama LIED to the medical Marijuana patients in California and prosecuted cases he promised not to. Voting for people who smile at your face while stabbing you in the back finally got a little old. Unless the democrats realize this, they will continue to bleed voters away to Third Parties and half brains.
dogsRgoodpeople November 21st, 2016 at 09:18
There was a U S Attorney in San Francisco who went after local elected officials ,mostly in Mendocino County . It was done to let them know they shoudn’t circumvent federal law. She was eventually brought under control by Holder I believe. Tell you what though,I wouldn’t want to be in that business under this religious zealot President elect Slimeball has appointed Attorney General. Oh yeah , these vicious little punks are gonna stuff prisons full of non violent folks that they have some little problem with.