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    Sen. Sessions: I Won't Be Trump's VP

    Thursday, April 7, 2016 04:24 PM
    By: Joe Crowe

    Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions won't be Donald Trump's running mate, he announced, according to a report in The Hill.

    "Don't bet any money on me," said the Alabama senator. "I think that would not happen." "I have not talked with him about it."

    Trump told The Washington Post that he would select "somebody that can walk into the Senate and who's been friendly with these guys for 25 years, and can get things done."

    Sessions is the only member of the Senate who has endorsed Trump's bid for president, but in recent weeks, The Hill reports, he has reached out to Senators Orrin Hatch and Tom Cotton.

    Sessions recently weighed in on the issue of legalizing marijuana, according to The Libertarian Republic.

    "The creating of knowledge that this drug is dangerous, it cannot be played with, it is not funny, it's not something to laugh about, and trying to send that message with clarity, that good people don't smoke marijuana."

    A petition had been filed to remove Sessions as the graduation speaker at the University of Huntsville, but now Sessions' supporters have filed a new petition demanding that he be kept on as the graduation speaker, AL.com reports.

    "This is simply about free speech," said graduate student Schuyler Rich, who helped organize the petition.

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    I support the legalization of marijuana and other drugs at some point. I've never used drugs but have a lot of friends who have at one time or another. They are all good people, most of them college graduates, some with advanced degrees, they've all worked since they were 14 years old, even when they were in college, same as I did, they all got jobs, did very well, got married, have great kids, and are some of the best "good people" you will ever want to know. They are loyal, decent, civil, fair, hard-working, Christian, but also like rock n roll, BBQ, beer, whiskey and yeah, some dope once in awhile. These are the people that have your back, will help you plant a garden, fix your roof, install your computer, give you money to save a loan, drive you somewhere if you need a ride, will take a homeless person to Walmart to buy supplies, and won't ever expect a thing in return. They won't tweet their good deed to Fox News or film it and send the video to Facebook or expect an award. In fact they won't even mention it unless someone saw them and asked them what they were doing.

    The War on Drugs though well-intentioned was wrong. It made a crime out of what history will show is a normal behavior for large segments of the human population. Addiction is rare, around 2% and doesn't change with laws. The addiction rate before the War on Drugs started in 1913 and after ruining tens of millions of American lives with drug charges over the past Century Plus 3, the addiction rate is still 2%.

    We need to end the War on Drugs, legalize and regulate the trade as a domestic only trade, no imports or exports, have it owned and operated from A to Z by licensed US citizens, tax it with the FairTax, use the taxes only drug users pay when they purchase the products to better educate the public about the real risks and consequences of using drugs, regulate to control quality, safety, quantity and age, and pay for rehab on demand without stigma for anyone who wants or needs it, then stop worrying about it. All Americans with non-violent drug charges need their records purged, all felonies and misdemeanors removed from their records, so they can re-enter society with a clean slate and a fresh start.

    What the War on Drugs has done to our society is unbelievable and the damage immeasurable. Millions arrested, incarcerated, with records, deemed unemployable, families with no income or insufficient income as a result, families go on welfare because one of the bread-winners is either in jail for years or out on parole without a job. The War on Drugs perpetuates the hard core criminal element of the drug cartels and gangs all pushing dope in an illegal irresponsible unregulated very violent foreign black market fighting for territory and customers, using illegal aliens to run the foreign-produced drugs in and haul the money out and while they all roam free as birds, Americans mostly black Americans are thrown in jail for years up to life sentences under federal law and mandatory sentencing.

    Meanwhile, the foreign cartel-based drug business grows every year with the population.

    It has to end, we have to take it back, keep the money in our country, create a legitimate regulated and taxed business, run by responsible licensed US citizens only, and with that being the best we can do, stop worrying about it.

    And for those who haven't figured it out yet, illegal immigration isn't fueled with the desire for jobs picking lettuce, it's fueled by the cartels who need people they control running the drugs in, operating this huge enterprise inside the United States, and hauling $300 billion a year of US money supply out of the country.
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    Progressives Should Just Say No to Legalizing Drugs


    There's a good reason drugs are illegal: They're dangerous.



    Why would we wish drug's destructive effects on more Americans?

    By Carrie WoffordFeb. 21, 2014, at 3:30 p.m.+ More

    Legalizing drugs has long been a rallying cry on the left, and not without good reason. Progressives remain deeply concerned about the large numbers of low-income males – especially African-American males – who lose their prime years to prison for what seems like the harmless crime of possessing drugs. Legalizing drugs, therefore, seems a sensible way to decriminalize the activities of low-income young African-American men who might feel that the drug economy is the only economy available. Proponents also argue that legalizing drugs would reduce drug-related violence and protect drug users from tainted drugs (on the assumption that the government would sell cleaner, purer drugs).

    With Colorado and Washington state leading the momentum toward legalizing marijuana (including news this week of Colorado’s expected large influx of business tax dollars from marijuana sellers), and given the growing number of municipalities embracing medical marijuana (surely, a humane response to chemotherapy patients and others in tremendous pain) the movement to legalize drugs for recreational use is gaining significant steam. In recent days, we’ve even seen calls for legalization from former Rep. Barney Frank and the pages of the Washington Post.

    Nevertheless, legalizing drugs is not the answer – even for the left. Here’s why: Drugs kill. They turn talented, intelligent people into impulsive animals. They destroy marriages. They deprive children of emotionally healthy parents. There’s a good reason drugs are illegal: They’re dangerous. Products that kill do not belong on drugstore shelves.
    [See a collection of political cartoons on pot legalization.]

    Does the name Lenny Bias ring a bell? Boston sports fans will never forget his name. Professional basketball’s number two draft pick in 1986, and the star son of the Maryland Terrapins, Bias was quickly scooped up by the Boston Celtics, bringing hope and excitement to Celtics fans. Bias was thrilled. So thrilled he celebrated that very night by trying cocaine for the first time ever. And that cocaine killed him.

    More recently, America suffered the loss of a tremendously gifted actor, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, whodied of a heroin overdose. Heroin kills. It’s as simple as that. Medical experts say that heroin changes the brain’s chemistry, making addicts out of people who were curious to try it one time.

    Why would we wish addiction, misery and death on more Americans by making it legal and easier to access? Moreover, why would we eliminate the deterrent effect that criminality now imposes on the general public? If drugs were as legal as alcohol, a lot more people would try them. Do we really want to see legions of Americans die because they’re curious to try a new high?

    Progressives should oppose drug legalization because the people most likely to be killed, the families most likely to be torn apart, the futures most likely to be destroyed are the very people progressives work hardest to help – the downtrodden, with lower incomes (who, according to government data, are significantly more likely to use drugs). Progressives believe the American dream should be available to everyone, regardless of skin color or nationality. We believe opportunity should not be curtailed because a child has the bad luck to be born on the wrong side of the tracks. But addiction can rob a struggling family of its shot at the American dream faster than a sudden-onset recession; the death and destruction that drugs bring can destroy a kid's future more powerfully than the lack of strong schools.

    Even the least damaging drugs – like marijuana – still kill brain cells and even shrink parts of the brain with prolonged use. Proponents argue that marijuana is no worse than tobacco, which is available on drugstore shelves (although no longer on the shelves at CVS, thanks to CVS’ bold decision to put public health above profit and to focus more seriously on its health care delivery). While tobacco is addictive and causes many health problems (draining public health resources), cigarettes don’t shrink parts of the brain. Why would we want a generation of teenagers to have smaller brains with fewer brain cells from smoking marijuana?
    [See a collection of political cartoons on the economy.]

    America’s next generation must be smarter than ever to compete in the global economy against thekids from Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo, who consistently outscore Americans on international academic tests. How do we expect American kids born in poor neighborhoods to compete on the global stage if they’re stoned?

    Certainly, drugs can destroy families of any wealth level, and addiction does not discriminate, but the people most vulnerable to drugs’ power tend to be those who are the most hopeless, and hopelessness comes in large doses in lower-income communities. While depression can hit any income level, there are a lot more reasons to be depressed if you live in bleak poverty.
    Admittedly, opposing legalization will not solve the problem of huge numbers of African-American men who lose their adulthood to prison for drug possession. But legalization isn’t the most direct answer for that problem anyway. Prison terms and mandatory minimums can be addressed by statutory changes. (For example, the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act ended the racially unfair sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine.) Without losing the deterrent effect of criminality, there’s no reason laws could not require more drug treatment and assistance rebuilding lives and less traditional jail time for illegal drug use. What progressives should focus on is improving the opportunities of Americans born into the bleakest neighborhoods – not advocating for legalization of drugs, which are a guaranteed opportunity-killer.

    http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/...galizing-drugs

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    I always thought that Sen. Sessions might be the AG for Trump so he can be in a position to facilitate and expedite the deportation of illegal immigrants, reign in the visa over stayers and immediately deport all criminal illegal aliens.

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