crimethink
6th May 2017, 11:27 PM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4479676/Trump-crack-medical-marijuana.html
President Trump avoided a government shutdown by signing a $1trillion spending bill, even though he disagrees with a provision safeguarding the use of medical marijuana.
The provision, known as the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment, bars the Department of Justice from spending money that could interfere with 'the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana'.
But in a signing statement that laid out his objections, Trump said he reserved the right to ignore the provision.
'I will treat this provision consistently with my constitutional responsibility to take care that the laws* be faithfully executed,' Trump said in the signing statement, a tool that previous presidents have used to explain their positions on appropriations bills.
Despite signing off on the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment, Trump held out the possibility that the administration could pursue legal action against states and territories that legalize marijuana for medical use.
Tom Angell, founder of the advocacy group Marijuana Majority, told Business Insider the statement is Trump's way of saying 'they reserve the right to do whatever they want and enforce prohibition regardless of the statutory prohibition on doing so.'
* clueless fuck, "the law" is made by Congress, which just enacted, with your signature, an exception to the Controlled Substances Act.
President Trump avoided a government shutdown by signing a $1trillion spending bill, even though he disagrees with a provision safeguarding the use of medical marijuana.
The provision, known as the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment, bars the Department of Justice from spending money that could interfere with 'the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana'.
But in a signing statement that laid out his objections, Trump said he reserved the right to ignore the provision.
'I will treat this provision consistently with my constitutional responsibility to take care that the laws* be faithfully executed,' Trump said in the signing statement, a tool that previous presidents have used to explain their positions on appropriations bills.
Despite signing off on the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment, Trump held out the possibility that the administration could pursue legal action against states and territories that legalize marijuana for medical use.
Tom Angell, founder of the advocacy group Marijuana Majority, told Business Insider the statement is Trump's way of saying 'they reserve the right to do whatever they want and enforce prohibition regardless of the statutory prohibition on doing so.'
* clueless fuck, "the law" is made by Congress, which just enacted, with your signature, an exception to the Controlled Substances Act.