White House Opens Door To Crackdown On Recreational Marijuana

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by daredave • 9 years ago

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british_india• 9 years ago

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

torbjorn• 9 years ago

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

BatFastard4• 9 years ago

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.

fedups• 9 years ago

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

jjuel• 9 years ago

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

mattbgates• 9 years ago

"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.

utnick• 9 years ago

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

marpstar• 9 years ago

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.

SubiculumCode• 9 years ago

The irony is rich but the good feels are poor.

lawless1232• 9 years ago

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

clavalle• 9 years ago

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

knodi1232• 9 years ago

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.

lawless1232• 9 years ago

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

paulmd• 9 years ago

Sure they did. Even here on HN.

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

BatFastard4• 9 years ago

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

mkaziz• 9 years ago

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

knodi1232• 9 years ago

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

BatFastard4• 9 years ago

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

ryguytilidie• 9 years ago

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.

cronjobber• 9 years ago

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

TACIXAT• 9 years ago

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.

merricksb• 9 years ago

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

ryan606• 9 years ago

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?

scarface74• 9 years ago

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

White House Opens Door To Crackdown On Recreational Marijuana

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