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Please grow a mustache Governor Christie
Mr. Creosote says medical marijuana law can go forward
TRENTON, N.J. – Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday that he will allow New Jersey to move forward in implementing its medical marijuana law despite his concerns over whether federal authorities could prosecute state regulators.
After saying last month that he wanted assurance from the U.S. Justice Department that it won’t pursue criminal charges against state-sanctioned medical marijuana programs, he pivoted Tuesday, saying he was drawing upon his seven years of experience as New Jersey’s U.S. attorney in anticipating that federal prosecutors have more important crimes to pursue.
“It is my belief, having held that job for seven years, that there’s a lot of other things that will be more important as long as the dispensaries operate within the law,” he said.
He never received blanket assurance from the Justice Department. But in making his announcement, the governor said that allowing the program to move forward was “a risk I’m willing to take as governor.”
The Republican governor also cited comments Barack Obama made in 2008, when he was a presidential candidate, in which he said he would not “use Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue,” preferring to focus instead on fighting violent crime and potential terrorism.
What’s especially funny about this is that the Obama administration has decided to go after medical marijuana, which the ACLU describes as “a complete reversal of the policy the administration outlined just two years ago”. It is a broken promise to the sick.
Sometimes, you gotta love a wingnut. Christie’s doing the right thing, albeit probably for the wrong motivations. Get the weed to the sick people. I’m gonna call the Governor tomorrow. It will be the first, and only, time Chris Christie gets a thumbs up from me. Sadly, this will not be the first time I’ve given the president’s administration a thumbs down.
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