Texas DA Plans Marijuana Sanctuary

[bblhd672]

Surprisingly it's Harris County/Houston and not Travis County/Austin
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/02/ ... sanctuary/

[steveincowtown]

Dumb that Houston thinks it can ignore state law, but even dumber that we still have a laws against possession for personal use.

[Skiprr]

Surprisingly it's Harris County/Houston and not Travis County/Austin.

Not too surprising at all considering how Blue the county turned last November. DA Kim Ogg can't lean any farther left or she'll fall off her chair: http://www.texaschlforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=87233. We now have a Houston mayor, a Houston chief of police, a Harris County sheriff, and a DA who break out in hives if they even see the color red.

I have no link, but the Montgomery County (our northern neighbor) DA, Brett Ligon, slammed Kim Ogg on this in news interviews. His stance--no doubt highly illogical to Ogg--is that no district attorney has the ability to set local regulations that contradict the laws of the State of Texas. Ligon said that if Ogg wanted the law changed, she should be a Texas legislator, not a district attorney; that DAs don't make laws. Go figure.

[ScottDLS]

Maybe someone will make Denton County a TXPC 46.03 sanctuary, so when I carry my CCW to my daughter's school, I can take a class and not get arrested...

[dhoobler]

I have no link, but the Montgomery County (our northern neighbor) DA, Brett Ligon, slammed Kim Ogg on this in news interviews. His stance--no doubt highly illogical to Ogg--is that no district attorney has the ability to set local regulations that contradict the laws of the State of Texas. Ligon said that if Ogg wanted the law changed, she should be a Texas legislator, not a district attorney; that DAs don't make laws. Go figure.

The Montgomery County DA comments start at the one minute mark:

http://www.click2houston.com/news/harri ... -drug-plan

[Skiprr]

The Montgomery County DA comments start at the one minute mark:

http://www.click2houston.com/news/harri ... -drug-plan

"As the elected district attorney, you've got one job and that's to enforce the laws. If you want to change the laws, then run for state rep or state senator," said [Montgomery County District Attorney Brett] Ligon.

Too bad I can't move to Montgomery or Fort Bend.

[Liberty]

I don't know how he can force someone to go to the 4 hour drug remediation classes, without arresting ticketing or taking them to court. I also don't understand who is going to pay for these classes. What I do know What I do understand is that the laws banning marijuana, THC or canabis oil for medicinal purposes are cruel and barbaric. The legislature and Dan Patrick have made it clear that he isn't going to risk anyone getting a cheap high no matter how much pain or improvement it can make in anyones life. Aspirin kills more people than marijuana. Ignorance kills even more than aspirin.

[RicoTX]

Ignorance is directly associated with politicians unfortunately. Dems and Reps both.

[bdgyeah]

This is dumb. Legalize or don't. I will say that this new policy is not an attempt to keep the casual smoker out of jail. A casual smoker doesn't have 4 ounces on him......ever. This policy is to keep low level dealers out of jail. Not good.

[Ameer]

Surprisingly it's Harris County/Houston and not Travis County/Austin

I don't know why this should surprise anybody. It was part of Ogg's platform during the election.

[Charles L. Cotton]

. . . I will say that this new policy is not an attempt to keep the casual smoker out of jail. A casual smoker doesn't have 4 ounces on him......ever. This policy is to keep low level dealers out of jail. Not good.

I agree. The is just an extension of the troublesome trend of public officials obeying and enforcing only the laws with which they agree.

Chas.

[Syntyr]

Surprisingly it's Harris County/Houston and not Travis County/Austin
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/02/ ... sanctuary/

I have been saying for a while now... Harris county is going blue blue blue... This is not good news.

[Syntyr]

Too bad I can't move to Montgomery or Fort Bend.

Sorry Skiprr. Thats exactly what I did. Moved out to Richmond. I now drive 30 miles to work. Worth every minute. Just counting the years remaining until retirement and I am moving out to the boonies where everyone will leave me alone.

[cbunt1]

Actually, at the risk of sounding cynical...

Upon the observation that it's not Austin, I'll point out that the current Houston Police Chief is the infamous Art Acevado...so it might as well be Austin from that perspective.

And...the whole thing sounds like a trap to me, with potential long-term consequences for anyone wrapped up in it. Without some form of deferred adjudication or pre-trial diversion, there is no leverage against the accused to force them to take a 4-hour class....so there's more to the story than what that fine pillar of journalism The Houston Chronicle is stating.

In short, with no arrest, and/or no citation, one doesn't become subject to the whim of the legal system.

Nothing good or useful can come from this, regardless of which side of the "green party" you stand with.

Decriminalization is the answer...not legalization, because legalization panders to a restrictive law mindset, i.e. only that which is specifically allowed is OK, while the Constitution demonstrates the opposite.

Pardon my tone. For some reason I'm in a particularly sharp-witted cynical mood today.

[dhoobler]

Surprisingly it's Harris County/Houston and not Travis County/Austin
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/02/ ... sanctuary/

The Travis county DA is too busy dreaming up trupmed up charges against republican office holders to have time to think about this.