<p><img src="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sessions-meme-execute-696x366.jpg"/></p> <p> To make America great again, Donald Trump announced last month that he will be moving forward with his plan to execute people for selling drugs. Without any critical thought or scientific approach, the president completely ignored all the data and instead opted for the police state as a solution to the opioid epidemic currently ravaging the nation. </p> <p>“We can have all the blue-ribbon committees we want, but if we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we’re wasting our time. Just remember that. We’re wasting our time.<strong> And that toughness includes the death penalty,”</strong> </p> <p>Trump exclaimed before he was met with applause. As his supporters cheered on the wholesale state-sanctioned slaughter of people for conducting voluntary interactions, their applause were also unwittingly supporting the murder of legal marijuana growers. Last week, after the president’s most tyrannical speech, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions <a href="https://www.justice.gov/file/1045036/download">sent a memo</a> to the nation’s federal prosecutors <a href="http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-sessions-death-penalty-20180321-story.html">urging them to seek the death penalty</a> in cases involving large-scale drug traffickers. The memo highlights a little-known federal law that allows the US government to execute anyone who grows more than 60,000 marijuana plants. As the Denver Post<a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2018/03/22/jeff-sessions-death-penalty-memo-drug-dealers-marijuana/"> points out</a>, Sessions’ memo talks largely about opioids, but federal law contains no such drug-specific limitation on prosecutors’ power. Trace the law’s <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3591">meandering</a> <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/848">route</a> <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/841#b_1_B">through</a> federal statutes and you’ll come to this conclusion: Anyone convicted of cultivating more than 60,000 marijuana plants or possessing more than 60,000 kilograms of a substance that contains marijuana could face death as a punishment. </p> <p>While it is entirely unlikely that the US government would start executing legal marijuana growers, the fact remains — it is one of their options. “I think it’s still very theoretical,” said Sam Kamin, a University of Denver law professor who specializes in marijuana law and in the death penalty, according to the Post. </p> <p>“I don’t think anyone thinks the federal government is going to seek the death penalty against a state-licensed business. But what it highlights is this enormous disconnect with federal and state law.” </p> <p>Although most marijuana growers are secretive about how many plants they cultivate at a time, Sam Kamin was asked how many he estimates to pass the benchmark of 60,000. “There are many,” he responded. </p> <p>The Free Thought Project also spoke with a marijuana grower who owns operations in California, Nevada, and Colorado. Speaking on the condition of anonymity — for likely reasons — our source tells us that he grows twice that amount. According to the Post, in June, the last month <a href="https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/sites/default/files/2017%20Mid-Year%20Update%2012122017.pdf">for which this data is available</a>, there were nearly 1 million marijuana plants under cultivation by Colorado’s state-licensed cannabis businesses. </p> <p>In California, one of the biggest dispensaries <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/15/us/california-marijuana-industry-agriculture.html">is building out a farm</a> it expects will grow 100,000 plants at a time. And Smith said laws in states that have more recently adopted legal marijuana but limit the number of sales licenses available have probably increased the number of super-sized pot grows in the country. </p> <p>The idea that the US government claims the right to murder you for growing an arbitrary number of plants — which research shows c<a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/scientists-cannabis-ability-cure-opioid-addiction/">an potentially solve the current opioid</a> epidemic — speaks to the dangerous idiocy and tyranny within the state. Although Sessions marching innocent pot farmers down death row is unlikely, the fact remains that it is one of their options. “What Sessions is reminding us,” Kamin said, “is that losing your life is at least statutorily possible.” </p> <hr> https://steemitimages.com/DQmXVnLVzM4N8CZXeXCRjJTeVCvJQbipGbMmy2zTpzvH12V/image.png <p> We are the Free Thought Project — a hub for Free Thinking conversations about the promotion of liberty and the daunting task of government accountability. All of our content was created by our team of artists and writers. Learn more about us on our website <a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com">thefreethoughtproject.com.</a></p>
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Executing people for doing something that is not really any business of the State or Federal government would not be in the vested interest of our society. I can see such action putting the hang mans noose around some official Dunning Kruger affected officials for doing that. Title 18 section 23 doesn't even mention a trial for that silliness.
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> While it is entirely unlikely that the US government would start executing legal marijuana growers, Well, they have. Although it was more of a hit, then it was a trial then execution. That said, what chump may do will either be very good, or very very good. The largest drug traffickers work for the govern-cement. And weeding out the corruption will take stating that you are going to kill them when you find them and then start noisily looking for them. Then the rats start scurrying off the ship. The other thing that may happen is that legal cannabis growers are attacked, and public back lash will see state rights to governance reinstated clearly over the national govern-cement.
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Oh yeah, you are totally on point there. I guess we should have specified that they probobly wouldnt commit these murders in the open :-P
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With the way that Trump operates, I wonder if he's not trying to simply stir the pot a bit, which many times leads to knee jerk reactions, and I think these reactions allow things to occur. Things that otherwise would not have happened. With the MSM (and left's) almost 'oppositional defiance disorder', combined with their collective TDS. He almost has to appear to be rabidly against something in order to get certain people to either act, or tip their hands. I think people like Deuerte are going to find themselves at the wrong end of a rope after having faced a war crimes tribunal. I'd like to think that Trump isn't stupid enough to make those same mistakes. I guess we'll see, time will tell ultimately. Just when you think you know where he stands on an issue, he goes and signals almost the exact opposite. I think ultimately he'll land on the side of States rights. I hope anyways. There are allot of people who would be much better off going the natural route, as opposed to the big pharma route. I'm pretty sure he has big pharma terrified, that this type of law could be used against them. Maybe he's trying to get them to lobby in favor of states rights. That would be kind of clever. I don't know, Trump is tricky, it's very hard to know if he's going to be the best thing that's ever happened to this country or the worst. Sometimes, I wonder if he even knows.
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I was just this morning promoting a video reason tv did about how the State is going to mess up what these farmers were building. Crazy timing
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