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White House Opens Door To Crackdown On Recreational Marijuana

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Previous discussion today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718456

Those Republicans are all about States' Rights... oh, wait... I guess they're not.

They only care about states rights' when they don't control Congress or the presidency

It appears that the claim of states rights only applies when they know the states will go their way. This would be a PERFECT test case for such resolve.

Bonus points to those who see the corollary applied to their own team

Yup telling us that bathroom laws should be a states right, but marijuana well we need the federal government to regulate that...

>There’s a big difference between [medical marijuana] and recreational marijuana and I think that when you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this country, the last thing we should be encouraging people ― there’s still a federal law that we need to abide by when it comes to recreational marijuana and other drugs of that nature

Ah, yes, we should crack down on recreational use because of opioid addiction. Makes perfect sense when you speak in sentence fragments.

"I'm going to be the greatest jobs President ever." - Mr. Trump, 2016 campaign trail

At least he did learn the game of the politician: Say whatever it takes to get you into power.

I am from a state where DUIs are common and death by drunk driver is pretty high.

But lets crackdown on the real problem: the people hanging out in their own homes, minding their own business, smoking or eating reefer.

I can't believe he is trying to link Opioid usage with Marijuana.

So I actually don't know much about the subject. Could you (or anyone else) describe what the difference is?

marijuana is not an opioid? they're totally different substances, that produce mostly different effects?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid

Cronjober put in a Wikipedia link to the concept of gateway drugs. A concept that has been dismissed for 30 years.

Funny thing is that the only real link I can think of is: I would bet a lottttttt of money that if Marijuana was legalizaed in places with high instances of Opioid addiction, Opioid addiction would drop, as would you know, deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_drug_theory

I have much schadenfreude for the all the idiots that voted for Trump because they thought he be pro-legalizing it.

Did anyone think that? They were pretty clear about their position before the election.

a lot of trump supports thought (think?) that his outlandish positions are merely posturing, and not serious. Much like his "lock her up" stuff about hillary - all bluster no muster.

Loads. Reddit was full them , though it's impossible to tell how many were real and how many were just bots.

Sure they did. Even here on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12913113

the headline doesn't really match the content of the article...

at most they've said that they'll "be looking into it", not that they were going to start cracking down tomorrow. I'm a pot user and even I think the title is a bit sensationalist.

Because recreational use of alcohol and drugs is just as big a threat to society as violent crime? Why not prioritize Justice Department resources on the 760 annual murders or the 4,500 other victims of gun crime in Chicago that Comrade President Trump mentions every other week?

Aren't most of the states that have legal marijuana, Democratic?

The irony is rich but the good feels are poor.

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