If they go after pot they are making HUGE mistake.

VERY large numbers of Trump voters smoke pot.

Bad idea to put your own supporters in jail.

Of course he is. Because, consistent with the recent transgender student order, he really is for "states' rights." Except for when it's not convenient for him.

always thought of Cascadia folks as pipe-dreamers, but if the Feds really do go after recreational weed, well... might just be able to sell West Coast separatism to the masses.

You would think the large cannabis corporations would have lobbyists.

Pot as gateway drug, trickle down economics, 3 million illegal immigrants voting for HRC...the lies keep getting recycled.

@3: yep - looks like

What, and expect you guys to deal with them straight? That is beyond cruel.
And it's a state matter. They are messing with your heads. Swinging their sad little white men cocks around.
Miserable pasty skin coloured Bannon, how long since anyone loved him up, do you think? Apart from a paid person. What a sad miserable human he is.
Pence. A man who calls his wife Mother, is not getting much satisfaction.
Won't be long before trump forgets who he even is. Poor buggar, dementia is setting in.

Could someone explain the situations when " states rights " are in play ?

Civil rights (see states rights)
Recreational drugs ( need uniform national policy)

It all seems rather convenient.

It's as if if something is a progressive idea it must be bad and reversed. No matter what the issue is.

@4 They do. For example: https://www.facebook.com/TheNCIA/

@1:

Now that the BIG Liquor and Tobacco companies are positioning/positioned to dip into the industry, I wonder how far this move will go?

Good. About time a lot of willfully naive Americans stopped seeing Mr Trump as a comic, bumbling agent of chaos and change. Essentially harmless, right Jimmy Fallon? How many times has he hosted SNL now? Wake up and instead see him as the angry cruel prick he is, more than willing to do the bidding of the Nathan Bedford Forrest wing of the Republican Party.

@14: Agreed. I'm ready for Cascadia and the West Coast (unsure if Alaska would join us, being a red state, but Oregon, California, and Hawaii undoubtedly will) to secede from Trumpzilla's Swamp-Reich AmeriKKKa---any day now. Eastern Washington can become their ridiculously proposed new state of "Liberty". Good luck during flood, drought, and wildfire season. They'll need it. FEMA---WHO?

@15 You think Corewahi could catch on?

On the bright side, as Jeff Sessions has been quoted as saying he liked the Klan until he discovered they smoke marijuana, maybe this means he will go after the Klan! /snark

If Trump goes for this, he either doesn't have the political instincts I thought, or he's displaying weakness.

The one bright spot is that it's a part of a pattern of overreach that makes them look like jack-booted thugs.

@18 The three states the Republicans have to worry about if they go after legalized Pot are Colorado, Nevada, and Alaska. They need Colorado and Nevada. I don't think they will, no matter how Spicier screws up his brief. Anyway I would rather see what Sessions states or DOJ's position. There are too many states that have medical marijuana to fight this.. If they go after medical marijuana, it is going to cause problems in states like Florida, Michigan and Arizona.. Politically it will be a bad decision. Libertarians will ally themselves with Dems to defeat the Trump Administration.. Pot always makes strange bedfellows, which is the point of Pot.

DHS is using "gang" raids in CA and OR and WA to go after MJ and INS targets too. Tell the SPD and State Patrol they can't "help" go after "gangs" when it's a lie to crack down on legal MJ and to swoop up immigrant populations

Ferret @ 20 - "Pot always makes strange bedfellows, which is the point of Pot"

Brilliant!