Jefferson Beauregard Sessions

Post #417,638 by rcareaga 4/5/17 1:55:13 PM 4/5/17 1:55:13 PM Reply	Jefferson Beauregard Sessions (That’s what the kids call a “tell,” by the way, kinda like a German politician named “Adolf Himmler Schmitt”—you can draw certain conclusions about the worldview that informed his upbringing.) Should Sessions embark on this jihad (difficult to see the political upside for the regime apart from the appeal to the knuckle-draggers in Lower Middle America of a thumb stuck into the collective eye of those snooty coastal elites—why yes, you appalling rustics, since you mention it we do despise you—but this lot doesn’t appear to do nuanced political calculation very well), he will launch his myrmidons at the growers and sellers: he simply doesn’t have the firepower to go after the consumers, and the states that have lifted prohibition are unlikely to reimpose it. Indeed, given the revenue stream that Colorado is presently enjoying from legalization, I imagine that the lack of cooperation there might even extend to pushback. In any event, the Justice Department won’t be coming after little old, emphasis on old, me when I take up the Weed with Roots in Hell again this summer after an interval of years. cordially,
Post #417,640 by mmoffitt 4/5/17 2:31:45 PM 4/5/17 2:31:45 PM Reply	I find it interesting, in an historical context, the reluctance of the Fed. To be sure the previous President was indisposed to do anything about it (my very old conjecture that the Weed does irreversible damage to one's senses with respect to the ability to recognize any possible negative results that might arise from use may have been at play here). But it occurs to me that there was this skirmish of about four years duration way back in the 1800's that resulted in the generally accepted notion that federal laws trumped (no pun intended) state laws. That seems to have been abandoned recently. If Jeff's middle name does in fact shed any light to his political leanings, he might proceed despite negative feedback from the teeming masses of the coasts and Colorado (they didn't need them to ascend to power anyway) with this historical context in mind. In the vein of "The Yankees didn't let us usurp Washington's laws, I'll be damned if I let a bunch of stoners thumb their noses at it now." Don't take what I write here to be any indication of any fire in the belly on this subject left lingering within me. We live in a failed state. If you get stoned enough, maybe you'll fail to recognize that fact and the contribution to that failure that the pothead generation made. I'm just here for the popcorn now. bcnu, Mikem It's mourning in America again.
Post #417,642 by rcareaga 4/5/17 2:58:31 PM 4/6/17 12:28:45 AM Reply	Left to my own devices… I’d probably get high once or twice a year. I’ll repeat that in my youth I smoked pot with a number of people who have gone on to become successful professionals. Most of these have retired now, but among them I count architects, attorneys (including judges), elected officials (including district attorneys), physicians, novelists, and a former U.S. Poet Laureate. I presume that you will reply that they would have all exhibited further prodigies of accomplishment in their respective fields but for impairing themselves in their salad days. But let’s not relitigate this. As for Sessions, the guy is a fucking kloset Klansman, as you and I know very well. States’ rights, my arse. cordially, Edited by rcareaga April 6, 2017, 12:28:45 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #417,643 by mmoffitt 4/5/17 4:39:16 PM 4/5/17 4:39:16 PM Reply	Is the irony of you arguing for States' Rights entirely lost on you? ;0) bcnu, Mikem It's mourning in America again.

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