Colorado Moves To Protect Legal Pot Against Session's Federal Ganja Goons

I like Jeff Sessions on everything but pot. I voted for Trump, but I also voted for legal weed here in Colorado. Now, Colorado is pushing laws to combat Sessions paranoiah on pot.

DENVER (AP) - Colorado may prohibit law enforcement officers from assisting in a potential federal marijuana crackdown.

The state House voted 56-7 Wednesday to bar public employees from assisting federal agents in “arresting a Colorado citizen for committing an act that is a Colorado constitutional right.”

The Colorado bill doesn’t specifically mention marijuana. But sponsors say it is inspired by threats that federal authorities may try cracking down on the marijuana industry. Federal authorities generally rely on local law enforcement to enforce federal drug law.

http://www.kjct8.com/content/news/Colorado-may-bar-cops-from-helping-with-marijuana-crackdown-420626153.html

Gov Hickenlooper has turned out to be a decent governer, for a democrat. I think he has taken an honest and fair approach to the law we voted in, even though he said if he could have vetoed it, he would have.

Here’s what he recently said; 

We haven’t seen a spike in teenage use. We haven’t seen a giant increase in people’s consumption of marijuana. Seems like the people who were using marijuana before it was legal, still are. Seems like the people who weren’t using marijuana before it was legal, still aren’t.

Obviously now, (the) appointment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions has added an additional level of complexity; but overall, I’d say that the experiment — as it continues to move forward — has gone better certainly than I anticipated and I think certainly better than many people anticipated.

http://www.thecannabist.co/2017/03/31/colorado-governor-john-hickenlooper-marijuana-2017/76411/

He went on to say that the largest increase in pot use was among seniors. Ha!

Jeff Session should try it, and get off the Reefer Madness train.