WA on defensive as DOJ announces marijuana crackdown

(CSE:VRT) (OTC:VRTHF) and (Frankfurt:2VP), (“Veritas” or the “Company”) provides the following statement to the memorandum issued by United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions on marijuana enforcement on January 4, 2018. Despite the uncertainty, there is a spirit of optimism that the status quo won’t change as much, and that the move was created to reflect posturing on the part of the Sessions-led Justice Department. Obviously this is outdated, and Congress needs to do its part by removing marijuana from Schedule I. But nothing is stopping Sessions in the meantime from accepting scientific facts.

USA attorneys around the country responded cautiously to Sessions’ announcement.

In 1932, when Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis deemed USA states “laboratories” for democracy, he couldn’t have known that those labs would one day be filled with hydroponic weed.

Currently, over half of the the states have legalized marijuana use, medical or recreational.

And if they do, at the moment their hands are tied, at least when it comes to medical cannabis.

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In other important orders that Session had nullified were the 2013’s Cole Memo, which was placed in effect by the Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole – of Obama administration.

Lawmakers and others in Democratic-leaning states have been howling over the past year about actions by the Trump administration and congressional Republicans that they say have undermined states’ rights.

Cole had ordered the memo out of respect of the Traditional allotment of the several drug-enforcement responsibilities that the states have when the regimes in the state are not following the federal priorities.

In November, Costello signed onto a bipartisan letter that urged leadership in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate to include protections for states that have passed a law that allows for the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana. To start off the new year the Teller County Sheriff’s Office conducted a search warrant and made a number of arrests for growing marijuana illegally.

“This new policy – whatever it ends up being – makes the risks and uncertainties much greater”, he said.

“Despite backwards moves by the Trump Administration, I will continue to protect cancer patients, kids with epilepsy, veterans with PTSD and all Pennsylvanians seeking relief from legal medical marijuana”, Wolf said. “Our laws should accurately reflect scientific consensus – not misplaced stigma and outdated myths about marijuana”, Gabbard added. “Good people dont smoke marijuana”, he said in 2016. The executive branch is obligated to enforce federal law, whether they like it or not.

Sessions’ memo doesn’t address the underlying problem with marijuana policy, which is that state and federal laws are in conflict.

As recently as 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that California couldn’t allow homegrown medical marijuana, deeming it a violation of the broadly interpreted Commerce Clause. Consequently, he said he believes we will likely see more tourism-related businesses embrace it. Many Americans have used medical marijuana for conditions such as cancer and glaucoma.

They argue that Sessions is trampling on the rights of states that have chose to legalize pot for medical or recreational use, or both.

Sessions has gotten a lot of negative reaction for this move, from across the political spectrum. They are taking a new and smarter approach to legalize and regulate marijuana.

Medical marijuana in Pennsylvania is approved for use of PTSD.

He said the US attorney general “has the authority to grant immunity from prosecution and the Cole memos basically granted immunity when the state legalized, regulated and controlled the cannabis products with appropriate safeguards”.