House Republicans Want To Sue The President For Not Arresting People For Marijuana

[oscar169]

The Republican-controlled House passed legislation on Thursday to force President Barack Obama to crack down on states that have legalized marijuana in any form.

Introduced by Reps. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Jim Gerlach (R-Pa.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), the ENFORCE the Law Act (H.R. 4138) would allow the House or the Senate to sue the president for "failure to faithfully execute federal laws," including those related toimmigration, health care and marijuana.

"President Obama has established a disturbing pattern of cherry picking the laws he wishes to enforce," Issa said in a statement. "The Constitution charges the President with the responsibility to faithfully execute all the laws and not just the ones he supports."

A Judiciary Committee report submitted by Goodlatte last week regarding H.R. 4138 chastised the Obama administration for selective enforcement of the Controlled Substance Act, which prohibits marijuana outright. "The decision by the Obama administration not to enforce the CSA in entire states is not a a valid exercise of prosecutorial discretion," the report reads. "The guidance of U.S. Attorneys establishes a formal, department-wide policy of selective non-enforcement of an Act of Congress. This infringes on Congress's lawmaking authority, by, in effect, amending the flat prohibitions of the CSA to permit the possession, distribution, and cultivation of marijuana so long as that conduct is in compliance with state law."

The report goes on to describe the Obama administration's actions on marijuana policy as an "impermissible suspension of the law by executive fiat."

But Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) told The Huffington Post that he is not alone in the Capitol in his support of the administration's position not to interfere with state marijuana laws, adding that while states continue to craft sensible marijuana policy, Congress continues to drag its feet with bills like this one.

"It doesn't seem right to me to continue to waste our limited resources punishing people for doing something when it's legal under state law, the majority of Americans want it to be legal, and much more dangerous drugs like heroin are making a comeback," Blumenauer said. "I'd rather stop arresting two–thirds of a million people a year for marijuana possession and generate $100 billion over 10 years through taxes and savings."

Twenty states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana. Colorado and Washington have legalized recreational marijuana. More than a dozen other states are pursuing legalization in some form over the next several years, and a recent poll showed a majority of Americans want marijuana to be legalized.

Still, the federal government continues to ban the plant, classifying it as a Schedule I substance that is among "the most dangerous" drugs, such as heroin and LSD, that are said to have "no currently accepted medical use."

Passed 233-181, all of the votes in support of the bill were from Republicans, alongside five Democrats, including Reps. John Barrow (Ga.), Collin Peterson (Minn.), Pete Gallego (Texas), Henry Cuellar (Texas) and Nick Rahall (W.Va.).

Some Republicans who have supported relaxed federal marijuana legislation in the past voted Thursday in support of the ENFORCE Act, including Rep. Mike Coffman (Colo.), who joined Colorado Democrats in urging federal regulators to give marijuana-related businesses access to traditional financial services, and Reps. Dana Rohrabacher (Calif.), Justin Amash (Mich.) and Don Young (Alaska), who sponsored the "Respect State Marijuana Laws Act" in 2013 -- a bill explicitly aimed at preventing the federal government from prosecuting state-legal, state-licensed marijuana businesses and their owners.

Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.), a sponsor of several marijuana-related bills, told HuffPost that the bill is "not going anywhere in the Senate," where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) confirmed in a statement the bill would be "dead on arrival."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/14/republicans-force-obama-legal-marijuana_n_4964995.html

 

[justanotherbozo]

...this isn't about marijuana, it's about a president who thinks he can do whatever the phuck he wants, laws be damned.

...we can't afford to be so focused on winning this battle that we lose sight of the bigger picture which is the slow and steady erosion of our freedoms.

...we need to convince more conservatives of the value of freedom in this instance not pin our hopes on the lieing sacks that are the progressive liberals who continue to piss down our backs and tell us it's rainin'!

...we need to rid the government of ALL career politicians, period!

peace, bozo

 

[Prime C]

We were losing our freedoms way before Obama. This is just another Republican attack on him. They can pass all the prejudice bills they want in the house who cares its just more of the same from them. It would be nice if they would just do their fucking jobs and stop all this posturing bs. Pass a fucking bill that means something with no other stupid bills attached. Or how about reschedule the fucking plant already. The whole system is lame!

 

[Twisted pleasure]

They cant hold us down.

 

[justanotherbozo]

We were losing our freedoms way before Obama. This is just another Republican attack on him. They can pass all the prejudice bills they want in the house who cares its just more of the same from them. It would be nice if they would just do their fucking jobs and stop all this posturing bs. Pass a fucking bill that means something with no other stupid bills attached. Or how about reschedule the fucking plant already. The whole system is lame!

man, this is NOT about Republicat or Democran, they are playing you bro, they are in cahoots and working together to keep the citizenry, that's you and me, polarized and bickering while they rob us all blind, of our money AND our freedom.

...and Obama is a complete bag of shit and deserves impeachment. ...that's not to say Bush was any better, just that Oblowjob is scum of the worst order in his own right.

he is a gifted speaker with no morals or integrity who will tell any lie to get what he wants and he lacks the balls to take a principled stand on ANY issue, period!

and the whores in the mainstream media are a cancer rotting this country with lies.

bozo

 

[Gamrstwin36]

MAYBE this'll make osama i mean Obama, change the schedule on mmj. FOR we all know how he likes to stick it to the republicans Lmfao.
Respect

 

[Cort]

I have oft said repubs and dems are 2 sides of the same coin. Heads they win, tails we lose.

When you look at what they do, both sides are really the same, short of the public posturing. When they come together on an issue we really need to watch out because someone is getting screwed and its not them.

Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) I can see one politician who wont be reelected.

 

[justanotherbozo]

Lindsey Graham, John MCCain and Mitch McConnell should all also get their walking papers, ...and ANY mofo who has been in office for more than 10 years, career politicians are all whores who sell their votes for money, mostly in the form of invisible bribes and promises of lobbying jobs when they get voted out of office.

...they and their staff should be barred from lobbying for 5 years after leaving office or for forever would be even better.

bozo

...we need real, honest to goodness conservatives in charge of our government, not liberal phucks hungry for power and money willing to prostitute themselves and tell lie after lie to get their way, no matter what party they say they are affiliated with, ...as has become obvious in the last few years, they will change party's like socks if they think it will win them an election and another term sucking off the public teat, Arlen Specter is a perfect example of this fact, there are many others.

 

[catbuds]

What we, the people vote in should be it. Cut & dried. No questions asked. I'm really getting sick of control freak politicians. I sit back, lone wolf that I am, & do what I want. They're not the boss of me. Even should we win legalization, after some of the shit they've pulled (they being politicians), I'll still grow & smoke under stealth as always, because I have no trust in this shity system. :(

 

[justanotherbozo]

things are different now bro, WAY different with this current administration, ...and i REMEMBER Jimmy Carter AND Ronald Reagan and i'm here to tell you that the general condition of this country was substantially better under Reagan than it was under Carter.

...things are considerably worse now than they were under Carter.

cannabis is NOT the most important issue at stake homes, it's our freedom and if we lose that AND our privacy how long before there will be no stealthy way to do ANYTHING?

...be a lone wolf all you want but if you aren't at least paying attention then don't complain when the liberals have a drone hovering outside your window.

...career politicians are ALL liars bro but the progressive liberals gain power by convincing the weak and the ignorant that the evil Republicans are victimizing them and that they are on their side and will be their champion.

...which is obvious bullshit for anyone NOT ignorant or lazy, the Democrat party is the party of racism, lies and oppression, period.

...they earn your vote by keeping you ignorant, hence, common core educational standards that will turn every student into little worker bees who don't know shit about the country they were born in.

...something else worth noting is that the media is different today, back in the day they actually seemed to be at least trying to just report the news, now they actively shape the news to fit there leftist agenda, they've been carrying Democrat water for years now and as far as i'm concerned they are nothing but whores, a cancer that is eating this country alive with progressive liberal lies!

...shit, if the truth were ever told every one of these sons-s-bitches would be in prision, not Congress, ...Charlie Rangel comes to mind but there are plenty of Republicats just as guilty.

bozo

 

[Gamrstwin36]

things are different now bro, WAY different with this current administration, ...and i REMEMBER Jimmy Carter AND Ronald Reagan and i'm here to tell you that the general condition of this country was substantially better under Reagan than it was under Carter.

...things are considerably worse now than they were under Carter.

cannabis is NOT the most important issue at stake homes, it's our freedom and if we lose that AND our privacy how long before there will be no stealthy way to do ANYTHING?

...be a lone wolf all you want but if you aren't at least paying attention then don't complain when the liberals have a drone hovering outside your window.

...career politicians are ALL liars bro but the progressive liberals gain power by convincing the weak and the ignorant that the evil Republicans are victimizing them and that they are on their side and will be their champion.

...which is obvious bullshit for anyone NOT ignorant or lazy, the Democrat party is the party of racism, lies and oppression, period.

...they earn your vote by keeping you ignorant, hence, common core educational standards that will turn every student into little worker bees who don't know shit about the country they were born in.

...something else worth noting is that the media is different today, back in the day they actually seemed to be at least trying to just report the news, now they actively shape the news to fit there leftist agenda, they've been carrying Democrat water for years now and as far as i'm concerned they are nothing but whores, a cancer that is eating this country alive with progressive liberal lies!

...shit, if the truth were ever told every one of these sons-s-bitches would be in prision, not Congress, ...Charlie Rangel comes to mind but there are plenty of Republicats just as guilty.

bozo

Liberal, Republican, Democrats. ALL the SAME enemy if you ask me. They're ALL controlled by the same puppeteer. And Reagan's Reign allowed massive drug's to ruin a lot of Families. I guess it depends on where your standing in America. Governments Waaaay to big. Power's in the PEOPLE. .NOT THE GOVERNMENT. We need to UNITE, DESPITE COLOR, CREED ,OR VIEWS. Or those drones will be at our windows, and NOT because of ONE party. But from the GOVERNMENT period.
Respect

 

[justanotherbozo]

...it is ABSOLUTELY a big government problem, that's why we need to get rid of all the assholes who make politic's a career, term limit's are a MUST if we are to take America back and return to a day when this was a good and safe place to live and raise a family.

...now we have scumbags shutting business's down because they won't serve someone, ...i say a business person should be free to serve, or not serve, anyone he wants to, for whatever reason he wants to, ...if it's a bad policy he/she will go out of business, the free market would decide, not some government phuck with a new executive 'order', ...phuck's don't give ME orders! ...period!

...and who the phuck do they think they are ORDERING me to buy insurance?

...big government belongs to big business so you MUST vote with every dollar you spend, it's only profits these sons-a-bitch's understand!

VOTE THE ESTABLISHMENT OUT OF OFFICE!

bozo

 

[Gamrstwin36]

...it is ABSOLUTELY a big government problem, that's why we need to get rid of all the assholes who make politic's a career, term limit's are a MUST if we are to take America back and return to a day when this was a good and safe place to live and raise a family.

...now we have scumbags shutting business's down because they won't serve someone, ...i say a business person should be free to serve, or not serve, anyone he wants to, for whatever reason he wants to, ...if it's a bad policy he/she will go out of business, the free market would decide, not some government phuck with a new executive 'order', ...phuck's don't give ME orders! ...period!

...and who the phuck do they think they are ORDERING me to buy insurance?

...big government belongs to big business so you MUST vote with every dollar you spend, it's only profits these sons-a-bitch's understand!

VOTE THE ESTABLISHMENT OUT OF OFFICE!

bozo

Couldn't have said it better.

 

[catbuds]

things are different now bro, WAY different with this current administration, ...and i REMEMBER Jimmy Carter AND Ronald Reagan and i'm here to tell you that the general condition of this country was substantially better under Reagan than it was under Carter.

...things are considerably worse now than they were under Carter.

cannabis is NOT the most important issue at stake homes, it's our freedom and if we lose that AND our privacy how long before there will be no stealthy way to do ANYTHING?

...be a lone wolf all you want but if you aren't at least paying attention then don't complain when the liberals have a drone hovering outside your window.

...career politicians are ALL liars bro but the progressive liberals gain power by convincing the weak and the ignorant that the evil Republicans are victimizing them and that they are on their side and will be their champion.

...which is obvious bullshit for anyone NOT ignorant or lazy, the Democrat party is the party of racism, lies and oppression, period.

...they earn your vote by keeping you ignorant, hence, common core educational standards that will turn every student into little worker bees who don't know shit about the country they were born in.

...something else worth noting is that the media is different today, back in the day they actually seemed to be at least trying to just report the news, now they actively shape the news to fit there leftist agenda, they've been carrying Democrat water for years now and as far as i'm concerned they are nothing but whores, a cancer that is eating this country alive with progressive liberal lies!

...shit, if the truth were ever told every one of these sons-s-bitches would be in prision, not Congress, ...Charlie Rangel comes to mind but there are plenty of Republicats just as guilty.

bozo

I spend over 4 hrs a day signing petitions, writing letters & calling senators, delegates, etc. & over many more issues than just cannabis. That has nothing to do with being a lone wolf. I'm a lone wolf because I'm sick of a society that sits on their ass & won't stand & fight for their rights! I'm 60 & have been disabled for years. Why can't these younger healthy people fight for their rights too? Takes more than just a few of us to win what we're fighting for, don'cha think? No, politics has little to do with why I'm a lone wolf, that's mainly because people around here are thieves, they walk in your house without knocking, pocket shit when they think you're not looking, & in their drunken state, do hundreds of dollars in damage before they leave! I would love to have my dead mothers wedding ring returned, but that will never happen, but untill it does, I allow no one in my home. Period! Had to stop letting my friends come over because they would have their cars ransacked & robbed, so I sure don't want the ones doing the robbing coming in my house any time they please. So I keep my friends away & allow the thieves into my home? Don't think so. (I'm not in the city, or even town. I'm WAY OUT in the country where this crap USUALLY doesn't happen). I only brought up the lone wolf thing to point out that what ever I do has no effect on anyone else because I stay away from people & keep to myself. Some of my activism may have an affect on them somewhere down the line, but in a good way. But as long as this one huge family of theives here sits back & snickers while saying shit like; hey there goes that crippled old bitch that's so easy to rob, lets go get her tv while she's not home.....well even my activism is none of their damned business.

 

[justanotherbozo]

...you ever consider moving? ...i'd never live in a place where my friends couldn't visit for fear of their cars being broken into.

...everybody is a victim and they use that 'victimhood' to justify all kinds of bad behaviour, 'they phucked me so it's ok for me to phuck you', kinda thinkin'.

...it appears you are still too close to the assholes bro.

bozo

 

[catbuds]

...you ever consider moving? ...i'd never live in a place where my friends couldn't visit for fear of their cars being broken into.

...everybody is a victim and they use that 'victimhood' to justify all kinds of bad behaviour, 'they phucked me so it's ok for me to phuck you', kinda thinkin'.

...it appears you are still too close to the assholes bro.

bozo

No, I'll never move. Owned this place for over 40 yrs, not letting them run me out. They grew up 4 houses from me. Their father had them arrested & put off the property. They occasionally come back to rob some old neighbors. Ones 50, the other close. Neither works, they steel for a living. Both are still in jail for robbing their father, but they'll be out late fall/ early winter. Hopefully AFTER harvest. I hate thieves. Apparently we don't have the 3 strikes law here.

 

[Cort]

Id like to sue the President and ALL members of Congress for not securing our borders as the constitution demands.

Section 4, Article 4 of the U.S. Constitution, which states:

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

1. invasion
   
   • n.noun
     1. The act of invading, especially the entrance of an armed force into a territory to conquer.
        
        
     2. A large-scale onset of something injurious or harmful, such as a disease.
        
        
     3. An intrusion or encroachment.
        

 

[Seamaiden]

things are different now bro, WAY different with this current administration, ...and i REMEMBER Jimmy Carter AND Ronald Reagan and i'm here to tell you that the general condition of this country was substantially better under Reagan than it was under Carter.

...things are considerably worse now than they were under Carter.

cannabis is NOT the most important issue at stake homes, it's our freedom and if we lose that AND our privacy how long before there will be no stealthy way to do ANYTHING?

...be a lone wolf all you want but if you aren't at least paying attention then don't complain when the liberals have a drone hovering outside your window.

...career politicians are ALL liars bro but the progressive liberals gain power by convincing the weak and the ignorant that the evil Republicans are victimizing them and that they are on their side and will be their champion.

...which is obvious bullshit for anyone NOT ignorant or lazy, the Democrat party is the party of racism, lies and oppression, period.

...they earn your vote by keeping you ignorant, hence, common core educational standards that will turn every student into little worker bees who don't know shit about the country they were born in.

...something else worth noting is that the media is different today, back in the day they actually seemed to be at least trying to just report the news, now they actively shape the news to fit there leftist agenda, they've been carrying Democrat water for years now and as far as i'm concerned they are nothing but whores, a cancer that is eating this country alive with progressive liberal lies!

...shit, if the truth were ever told every one of these sons-s-bitches would be in prision, not Congress, ...Charlie Rangel comes to mind but there are plenty of Republicats just as guilty.

bozo

You seem to be fairly well-informed, so I believe that you know that the only real reason this administration is so different is due specifically to the groundwork laid during the Bush II administration, by the men I refer to as The Triumvirate, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Karl Rove. Those three men have done more to expand executive powers, starting during the Carter years, than anyone else to my knowledge. So it really began to take firm hold under Bush, and got up its steam during his second term.

And, who in their right mind would then turn around and say, "I want to give up all these new powers!"? C'mon, man.

If people understood how much Congress is really responsible for, then they'd be in jail, promise.

So... BACK to the thread topic at hand and its impact on medical and recreational cannabis, I feel that right now President Obama has a Golden Opportunity, even though he's not up for re-election, to leave a good lasting impact here in the U.S. and use his powers and direct someone, the AG, one of the alphabet agencies, whoever, to reschedule cannabis to Sched. III and be good and fucking done with it. He can do that.

 

[SpiderK]

This all started in the 80's with the introduction of securitization in banking. After the wheels fell off in 2008 that market is toast now. Thus the velocity of credit has tanked hence the QE 1,2,3 bond buying since then. Like Japan after her bubble burst.

.Gov has been spending like drunken sailors because they had too, made up for joe sixpack second mortgage spending ect, i mean they saved the banks instead of letting them fail.

It does not matter much who is in office regarding spending, but the petty side fights on canna are just for show. The states need tax dollars so the green rush will continue. Maybe not every state will be like co but it will continue. S.S, future obligations demand tax dollars canna brings in.

 

[SpiderK]

In my opinion, that rep might believe what he's saying but he's not stopping anything. Many states need the money, it has medical behind it now & the understanding of the fact in the old days all this possible tax revenue was not collected. Now they are drooling ....