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Trump Vows "Ruthless" War On Drugs
With Jeff Sessions now officially leading the Justice Department, Donald Trump has set the stage for the administration to quote "restore safety in America" by getting tough on crime - especially drugs. "I've been here two weeks. I've met a lot of law enforcement officials. Yesterday, I brought them into the Oval Office. I asked a group, what impact do drugs have in terms of a percentage on crime? They said, 75 to 80 percent. That's pretty sad. We're going to stop the drugs from pouring in. We're going to stop those drugs from poisoning our youth, from poisoning our people. We're going to be ruthless in that fight. We have no choice."
Alternet contributor Phillip Smith recently penned an article bluntly titled "Trump Goes Full Nixon on Law-and-Order Executive Orders, Vows 'Ruthless' War on Drugs and Crime".
But as Nixon's domestic-policy advisor and Watergate co-conspirator John Ehrlichman later admitted - Nixon's drug war was never about drugs.
It was about destroying Nixon's enemies.
Ehrlichman told Dan Baum in 1994 the "[The Nixon White House] knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. ... Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
Since Nixon though, a lot has changed.
28 states and the District of Columbia have already legalized marijuana in some form, and more are following suit.
So will the Trump administration respect the 10th Amendment and embrace the budding industry across the country?
Or is it just a matter of time until Jeff "Good People Don't Smoke Marijuana" Sessions decides to disrupt your community and comes for YOUR pot?
-Thom
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Is the GOP Telling Women, 'You're Just a Toaster-Oven?'
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The Big Picture: Is the GOP Telling Women, 'You're Just a Toaster-Oven?'
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Big Picture Interview: What The Flynn Disaster Reveals...
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: The World View of Standing Rock Explained...
Bible: Genesis 2:16-17 " And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”".
Bible: Genesis 3:5 " For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil".
Article: " 13th Amendment", December 6, 1865. " Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Case: " Bush v. Gore", 2000. " The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States"
Bible: Genesis 1:28 " God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”".
Bible: Revelation 11:18 " The nations were angry, and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your people who revere your name, both great and small-- and for destroying those who destroy the earth."".
Hour Two: The Anti-Science GOP have Now Decided That Women Are Toaster Ovens....For Men?
Bible: Leviticus 15:16 " And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.".
Article: " Serial Killer Statistics" by Aamodt, M. G. ("Frequency of Serial Killers - Gender by Decade - United States Only" is on page 8)
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GOP Unveils A New National Voter Suppression Plan...
Trump Vows "Ruthless" War On Drugs
Why Europe Has A Veggie Shortage
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Is Trump About to Come For You & Your Pot?
On tonight’s Big Picture, Thom discusses the Trump administration’s war on drugs and what it means for states’ marijuana legalization with Lt. Commander Diane Goldstein (Ret.). Then, Thom talks to Valerie Ervin of the Working Families Party and Kymone Freeman of We Act Radio about adviser Stephen Miller’s comments on the judiciary, and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach advising Trump to crack down on voter fraud.
Rolling Down the Road to Fascism in Trumpland (and Hitler's Big Lie)
Everybody Is Coming Together Out of Their Silos for Change (w/Guest Eve Ensler)
Have Ordinary Americans Carried Out Inhumane Acts for Trump? (w/Guest Chris Edelson)
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