Berkeley says it is sanctuary city for marijuana users

blake9999

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The city council in Berkeley, Calif. on Tuesday voted to become a sanctuary city for marijuana users.

The council's vote means that city agencies and employees will not be allowed to provide information regarding legal marijuana by adults, SFGate reported.

The council's vote, which is likely a first, also prohibits agencies and employees from helping to enforce federal marijuana laws.

“I believe we can balance public safety and resisting the Trump administration,” Mayor Jesse Arreguin (D) said at the council meeting Tuesday, according to the publication.

“We’re keeping with the strong position Berkeley is a sanctuary for people in our community.”

The move to become a sanctuary city for marijuana users comes Attorney General Jeff Sessions earlier this year rescinded Obama-era guidance that deprioritized marijuana-related prosecutions in states that have legalized the substance.

Sessions moved to rescind the so-called Cole memo — written by former Deputy Attorney General James Cole during the Obama administration — which discouraged U.S. attorneys from bringing charges for marijuana-related offenses in states that have legalized recreational use of the substance.

Sessions's memo said, however, that federal prosecutors could decide how aggressively to pursue marijuana-related cases.
 

greg nr

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It's both interesting and ominous that one of the ideas sessions is floating is to combine several field agencies (ICE, CBP, DEA, ATF, etc) into an uber agency with federal enforcement priorities.

Ostensibly, this move would allow the feds to persue federal violations in sanctuary cities and states since local LEO's won't help.

Note also that are billions of dollars in trumps budget to staff these resorces up.

Unlimited budgets. Unlimited resources. No oversight. Personal vendettas.

What could go wrong?
 

A.K.A. Overgrowem

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Threatening letters to operators and landlords from the Feds in Cali. is old hat. If some DOJ policy pioneer wants to crack down they will simply resort to subpoenas instead of swat raids, low bonds instead of cells, not picking up the clerks, legal big brains will testify instead of flat foot detectives. Court actions will be around who you are not what you've done. Hopefully California will not accept men behind guns raiding a guitar company over a lumber import dispute.
 
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