If you’re a marijuana user in Washington or Colorado, Chris Christie doesn’t think you should have that right. In a new statement he says that if he becomes president he vows to crack down on states with legal marijuana, effectively attacking states’ rights. According to the Huffington Post:
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is once again threatening marijuana users in states that have legalized the drug, telling them to “enjoy it” while they can because, if he becomes president, there’ll be a crackdown.
“If you’re getting high in Colorado today, enjoy it,” Christie said Tuesday during a Newport, New Hampshire, town-hall meeting, Bloomberg reports. “As of January 2017, I will enforce the federal laws.”
Christie, one of 16 Republicans campaigning for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, has made no secret of his long-held opposition to cannabis. As governor of New Jersey, he has opposed even his own state’s limited medical marijuana program and has called similar laws in 22 other states a “front” for full recreational legalization. He has described taxes generated from the sale of marijuana as “blood money.” And earlier this year in no uncertain terms, he said that, as president, he would “crack down and not permit” recreational cannabis in states that have legalized it.
What do you think? Does the president have the authority to usurp power from states or do they have the right to control their legislation?
Source: Huffington Post
He should just run as a Democrat…
Yea, and his diet is working so well for him too…
better leave state rights alone fat boy
Swagger. He has no chance.
Moron in white tights.
Christie can bite the big one!!
You fat obumer nut huger!
Go jump off a cliff