Sessions Talks Marijuana With Anti-Legalization Canadian Senators

anything to SLOW IT DOWN hahahaha

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions sat down on Wednesday with three Canadian senators who are trying to defeat efforts to legalize marijuana in their country.

“The legalization of marijuana in Canada could have profound effects in our interaction with our closest neighbour and friend, the United States,” said Sen. Denise Batters. “In our review of this legislation, Conservative Senators have discovered many unintended consequences stemming from the Trudeau Government’s haste to implement legalization. We are here to further explore and address some of the international implications with our most important trading partner.”

The senators from Canada’s Conservative Party traveled to Washington, D.C. to investigate the “predictable consequences of legalization for Canadians traveling to the United States,” according to a press release.

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Sen. Denise Batters

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My #CPC #SenCA colleagues and I were happy to meet US Atty-Gen Jeff Sessions today to discuss impact of Canada's #marijuana legalization on Can-US border + relations. We're in Washington to get answers we haven't been able to get from #Trudeau government! http://denisebatters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Press-release-CPC-Washington-trip-Léga-Pot-USA-4-4-18-EN.pdf …

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The Liberal government of Prime Minister Justice Trudeau is working to fulfill a campaign pledge to legalize cannabis, and is hoping to enact its bill this summer.

The legislation was approved by the House of Commons last November and cleared the Senate’s second reading stage last month and is now in the committee stage, where it can be amended.

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Tom Angell

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BREAKING: Canadian Senate approves marijuana legalization bill on second reading, 44-29.

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Sessions, a longtime legalization opponent, moved in January to rescind Obama-era guidance that has generally allowed state to implement their own marijuana laws without federal interference.

Besides the attorney general, Batters and Sens. Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu and Claude Carignan met with officials from the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection during the visit to Washington. They also met with prohibitionist advocacy group Smart Approaches to Marijuana.

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Aren't you just thrilled with the waste of time and money sending CON senators to Washington? What in the fuck did they expect to learn from an anti-cannabis government that would help them passing legislation in a pro-cannabis country?

nonelected should pay their own way..

He looks gay as fuck.

As queer as a quail

He shoots those, and if they were gay he would shoot them twice probably.

HotKarl2 said:

He shoots those, and if they were gay he would shoot them twice probably.

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his mannerism? suggest his other ways.,...
can just picture him in his white cloak...humpin his buddy wearing the same cloak...

You forgot the Jews. Thanks Israel for the sub-Saharan Africans that you are too racist to absorb...sorry they settled in your perfect poor part of of Israel. Thanks for being so racist you refuse to absorb any and send them to Canada and Italy etc.

So racist Israel.

Thanks.

racists? lol..well if yer not a jew...yer scum compared to Krusty.

HotKarl2 said:

You forgot the Jews. Thanks Israel for the sub-Saharan Africans that you are too racist to absorb...sorry they settled in your perfect poor part of of Israel. Thanks for being so racist you refuse to absorb any and send them to Canada and Italy etc.

So racist Israel.

Thanks.

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Because shipping them from one terrible place to a war torn country would help how exactly? Also, where's the mention of this being race based? Haven't found any mention of that.............Also, the idea of them coming here is simply that at the moment, an idea.

I dont see why people get so upset when a country decides they don't want an influx of people arriving and turn them away. Theres absolutely no obligation to take them in, except a moral obligation. So, much like you seem to be getting upset at the thought of Canada taking them in, what makes it wrong for others to do the same?

Last I checked countries are beholden to their own FIRST. Once again, another reason we have borders

dont like the cut of your jib buddy

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-senators-canada-us-1.4607018

doesnt require a road trip to see the gay KKK sissy..