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bathroommonkey76

(3,827 posts)
Thu Apr 6, 2017, 08:30 PM Apr 2017

Department of Justice to review marijuana law enforcement

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is creating a task force to evaluate law enforcement on marijuana. CBS News justice reporter Paula Reid joins CBSN with more details on what new policies could be created.

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Department of Justice to review marijuana law enforcement (Original Post) bathroommonkey76 Apr 2017 OP
100% of Jeff Sessions knowledge of marijuana 90-percent Apr 2017 #1
Here's why there will be a big fight. MONEY flowing into state coffers. OxQQme Apr 2017 #2
oh no, but Sessions wants to shake the shit up yuiyoshida Apr 2017 #3
Pot alanbudda Apr 2017 #4
Jeffie boy is an ignorant, evil little elf! Dustlawyer Apr 2017 #5

90-percent

(6,834 posts)
1. 100% of Jeff Sessions knowledge of marijuana
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 12:49 AM
Apr 2017

is straight out of Reefer Madness. Yeah, lets crank up the cruel and stupid drug wars on our fellow Americans.

Mean and ignorant people are running this country!


-90% Jimmy

OxQQme

(2,550 posts)
2. Here's why there will be a big fight. MONEY flowing into state coffers.
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 01:50 AM
Apr 2017

Oregon has collected $65.4 million in marijuana business tax payments since January 2016.
SALEM, Ore. — The marijuana business in Oregon is becoming a bonanza for the state.

The Oregon Department of Revenue announced Tuesday it received $5.3 million in marijuana tax payments in January. The grand total of $65.4 million received in the year since Oregon started taxing pot sales is blowing the original estimate out of the water.

Last May, the Legislative Revenue Office quadrupled its estimate of net marijuana tax revenues that the state was expected to receive through June 30 of this year — from $8.4 million to $35 million.

more:
http://www.thecannabist.co/2017/02/22/oregon-marijuana-tax-revenue/74138/

The way it's going, with more and more states legalizing, and reaping YUUGE financial benefits, it may not be long until it's finally legal in all states.

yuiyoshida

(41,871 posts)
3. oh no, but Sessions wants to shake the shit up
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 01:52 AM
Apr 2017

He probably has a contract with the Privatize Prisons. I was hoping Sessions would have been caught up in the Russian Scandal, and hauled away to one of those for profit prisons.

alanbudda

(23 posts)
4. Pot
Fri Apr 7, 2017, 05:57 AM
Apr 2017

When will these fools learn that legalization will destroy the Cartels and bring in much needed tax money. Not to mention the medical benefits and freeing up of our police and courts to go after real criminal activity.

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