Trump’s Attorney General Declares War on Marijuana with the Most Idiotic Statement Ev

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From usuncut.com/politics/

Trump’s Attorney General Declares War on Marijuana with the Most Idiotic Statement Ever

Tom Cahill | February 28, 2017



Attorney General Jeff Sessions was apparently not smoking anything when he said that higher THC content in marijuana causes violence.

The man Trump picked to head the U.S. Department of Justice (who was deemed too racist to be a judge by a Republican-controlled Senate in 1986) seemingly promised a no-holds-barred war with states that have legal marijuana laws during a Monday evening press gaggle at the DOJ building in Washington, citing “experts” who claimed marijuana use resulted in more violent crime.

“I believe [marijuana use is] an unhealthy practice and current levels of THC in marijuana are very high compared to what they were a few years ago,” Sessions said. “Experts are telling me there’s more violence around marijuana than one would think and there’s big money involved.”

Sessions’ statement about violence increasing as a result of marijuana use doesn’t pass muster. In 2014, researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas concluded that there is no link between marijuana use and an increase in crime rates. Another study conducted by Yale University, Rutgers University, and the University of Buffalo discovered that marijuana use actually helps lower incidents of domestic violence.

What the researchers found surprised them: due to the fact that alcohol and other substances are known to increase domestic violence, they hypothesized that marijuana use would have the same effect. But that was not the case.


“More frequent marijuana use generally predicted less frequent [intimate partner violence] for both men and women over the first 9 years of marriage,” the researchers wrote. Not only that, couples who both used marijuana frequently — compared to one spouse using it more than the other — were at the lowest risk for subsequent partner violence.

AG Sessions also didn’t publicly state whether to not his Department of Justice would prioritize enforcement of federal laws barring the use, possession, sale, or growth of cannabis over state laws where recreational pot use is legal.

However, Sessions’ cryptic response seems to jibe with White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s previous statements that the Trump administration would opt for “greater enforcement” of federal pot laws.

“States they can pass the laws they choose,” Sessions told reporters. “I would just say it does remain a violation of federal law to distribute marijuana throughout any place in the United States, whether a state legalizes it or not.”

Recreational cannabis use has proven to be an economic boon for states like Colorado, Washington, and Oregon, which have all legalized the sale of cannabis through ballot initiatives in the last five years. All three of those states are ranked among the top 10 best state economies in the country, according to Wallethub. In Colorado alone, the state’s pot shops sold over $1 billion worth of recreational cannabis in 2016, amounting to more than $150 million in tax revenue.