Sessions’ Pot Crackdown: Call It the Feds’ Joint Effort
THE ISSUE: Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ rollback of Obama-era guidelines that protected pro-weed states.
During my time as an NYPD detective and a supervisor of detectives, both with the Youth Squad in Harlem and in Queens, I saw firsthand the harmful affects of marijuana (“AG ends fed ‘OK’ on weed,” Jan. 5).
Not only does marijuana have a harmful affect on your body, but every heroin addict I arrested began with using marijuana.
Needless to say, I agree with Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ termination of President Barack Obama’s leniency policy that kept federal authority from cracking down on states that legalized marijuana sales. Jack Coughlin Deer Park
The right of individual states to legalize marijuana is tantamount to giving individuals the right to legally poison themselves.
The legalization of marijuana excludes children, but do the advocates of these asinine trends really think that underage use will not happen?
Isn’t it bad enough that we have a high death rate from driving while drunk and texting while driving? We don’t need to add driving while stoned to the mix.
It’s very obvious that the governors of the states opting for legalization are more interested in votes than in the health and welfare of their constituents.
I strongly believe in the right of individual states to govern themselves, but not when it puts the lives of the entire population at risk. Richard Mills Bardonia
Sessions’ crackdown on legal weed will only keep marijuana sales under the control of Mexican drug cartels and gangs.
Marijuana should be treated like alcohol. No one ever died from a pot overdose, while tobacco kills 500,000 Americans a year.
People have been murdered by the gangs that the War on Drugs unintentionally created and made rich.
Both Democratic and Republican politicians benefit from Big Pharma and for-profit prisons, while the rest of us deal with crime and the abuse of dangerous illegal and legal drugs alike. Weed is not among them. Kalan Wood-Vincent Manhattan
Is Sessions going to follow through with the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e-mails or occupy himself with a crackdown on marijuana sales? John Lemandri Williamsburg, Va.