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<blockquote data-quote="Hobbes" data-source="post: 2926827" data-attributes="member: 3371"><p>In a grim development for <a href="http://theinfluence.org/four-ways-drug-policy-reformers-must-play-it-smart-under-the-trump-administration/" target="_blank">those fearful about drug policy reform</a> and wider human rights under the Trump administration, the president-elect has picked Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama to be the next US attorney general.</p><p></p><p>Sessions, who endorsed Trump early in his campaign, has a record of opposing immigration reform and <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/16/five-reasons-jeff-sessions-no-liberty" target="_blank">arguing against</a> immigration of any kind. He has also opposed cuts to mandatory minimum sentences, which see many drug-war prisoners incarcerated for decades, and in 1999 voted to increase penalties for drug-law violations.</p><p></p><p>A supporter of Nancy Reagan’s “<a href="http://theinfluence.org/nancy-reagans-just-say-no-campaign-was-a-disaster-how-to-end-it-for-good/" target="_blank">Just Say No</a>” campaign, the 69-year-old Republican said of marijuana earlier this year: “This drug is dangerous, it cannot be played with, it is not funny, it’s not something to laugh about, and [I’m] trying to send that message with clarity, that good people don’t smoke marijuana.”</p><p></p><p>“Jeff Sessions is a drug war dinosaur, which is the last thing the nation needs now,” said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. “Those who counted on Donald Trump’s reassurance that marijuana reforms ‘should be a state issue’ will be sorely disappointed.”</p><p></p><p><a href="http://theinfluence.org/trumps-pick-for-attorney-general-the-kkk-was-fine-until-i-found-out-they-smoked-pot/" target="_blank">http://theinfluence.org/trumps-pick-for-attorney-general-the-kkk-was-fine-until-i-found-out-they-smoked-pot/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hobbes, post: 2926827, member: 3371"] In a grim development for [URL='http://theinfluence.org/four-ways-drug-policy-reformers-must-play-it-smart-under-the-trump-administration/']those fearful about drug policy reform[/URL] and wider human rights under the Trump administration, the president-elect has picked Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama to be the next US attorney general. Sessions, who endorsed Trump early in his campaign, has a record of opposing immigration reform and [URL='http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/16/five-reasons-jeff-sessions-no-liberty']arguing against[/URL] immigration of any kind. He has also opposed cuts to mandatory minimum sentences, which see many drug-war prisoners incarcerated for decades, and in 1999 voted to increase penalties for drug-law violations. A supporter of Nancy Reagan’s “[URL='http://theinfluence.org/nancy-reagans-just-say-no-campaign-was-a-disaster-how-to-end-it-for-good/']Just Say No[/URL]” campaign, the 69-year-old Republican said of marijuana earlier this year: “This drug is dangerous, it cannot be played with, it is not funny, it’s not something to laugh about, and [I’m] trying to send that message with clarity, that good people don’t smoke marijuana.” “Jeff Sessions is a drug war dinosaur, which is the last thing the nation needs now,” said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. “Those who counted on Donald Trump’s reassurance that marijuana reforms ‘should be a state issue’ will be sorely disappointed.” [URL]http://theinfluence.org/trumps-pick-for-attorney-general-the-kkk-was-fine-until-i-found-out-they-smoked-pot/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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