{"id":5822,"date":"2017-05-18T09:31:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T13:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/?p=5822"},"modified":"2020-02-21T04:08:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T09:08:03","slug":"calif-sen-harris-warns-sessions-we-dont-need-help-going-after-grandmas-mmj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/2017\/05\/18\/calif-sen-harris-warns-sessions-we-dont-need-help-going-after-grandmas-mmj\/","title":{"rendered":"Calif. Sen. Harris Warns Sessions: \u201cWe Don\u2019t Need Help Going After Grandma\u2019s MMJ\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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via Leafly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

California Senator Kamala Harris<\/strong> held it down for the people of California<\/strong>. As the DOJ<\/strong><\/a> readies to bring back more severe jail sentencing, Kamala gave a strong message.<\/p>\n

Per Leafly<\/a><\/p>\n

California Sen. Kamala Harris spoke out against the Trump administration\u2019s drug policies yesterday, advising Attorney General Jeff Sessions that her state needed no help \u201cin going after grandma\u2019s medicinal marijuana.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Harris, the state\u2019s former attorney general and a rising star in national Democratic circles, made her remarks at the Ideas Conference<\/a> in Washington, DC, on Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cLet me tell you what California needs, Jeff Sessions,\u201d Harris said during a conference keynote. \u201cWe need support in dealing with transnational criminal organizations and dealing with human trafficking \u2013 not in going after grandma\u2019s medicinal marijuana.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Ideas Conference, put on by the Center for American Progress, is widely viewed as a testing ground in the Democratic Party\u2019s search for their new standard bearer.<\/em><\/p>\n

Harris wasn\u2019t done after making the \u201cgrandma\u2019s medicinal marijuana\u201d comment.<\/em><\/p>\n

‘We need to do the smart thing, the right thing, and finally decriminalize marijuana.’<\/em><\/p>\n
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA)<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The freshman senator took aim at Sessions\u2019 recent sentencing memo, which directs federal prosecutors to pursue the toughest criminal penalties possible in all cases.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhile I don\u2019t believe in legalizing all drugs \u2013 as a career prosecutor I just don\u2019t \u2013 we need to do the smart thing, the right thing, and finally decriminalize marijuana,\u201d Harris said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sessions\u2019 push for maximum sentences, she said, is a revival of the failed war on drugs, in which minorities were disproportionately incarcerated while the nation\u2019s drug issues only grew worse over time.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of going after violent crime, drug cartels, and major traffickers, we\u2019re worried about the neighborhood street-level dealer,\u201d she said. \u201cInstead of addressing the core issue of addiction and getting folks into treatment, we\u2019re going to overcrowd and build more prisons.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Harris certainly picked up some new fans after that statement. She’s currently on a press tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

California Senator Kamala Harris held it down for the people of California. As the DOJ readies to bring back more severe jail sentencing, Kamala gave a strong message. Per Leafly California Sen. Kamala Harris spoke out against the Trump administration\u2019s drug policies yesterday, advising Attorney General Jeff Sessions that her state needed no help \u201cin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[77,372,988],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5826,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions\/5826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}