Much has been made about Donald Trump’s decisions to alter the White House’s website, notably removing LGBTQ rights, civil rights and climate change from the list of presidential issues. Most alarming to the cannabis community may be the fact that the Trump Administration now touts “Standing Up For Our Law Enforcement Community,” especially if the commitment to “law and order” leads to more marijuana arrests, even in states where voters have deemed it legal. As Marijuana Majority’s Tom Angell noted on his Facebook page the Trump White House also deleted the Office of National Drug Control Policy, which included the Obama Administration’s opposition to marijuana legalization. Using the Wayback Machine, you can see that the Obama Administration’s ONDCP page:

Office of National Drug Control Policy As Marijuana Majority’s Tom Angell noted on his Facebook page the Trump White House also deleted the Office of National Drug Control Policy, which included the Obama Administration’s opposition to marijuana legalization. Donald Trump Removes Marijuana Opposition from White House Website Carl Wellstone January 20, 2017, 6:28 pm Donald Trump Removes Marijuana Opposition from White House Website EMAIL FACEBOOK TWITTER REDDIT LINKEDIN GOOGLE+ Much has been made about Donald Trump’s decisions to alter the White House’s website, notably removing LGBTQ rights, civil rights and climate change from the list of presidential issues. Most alarming to the cannabis community may be the fact that the Trump Administration now touts “Standing Up For Our Law Enforcement Community,” especially if the commitment to “law and order” leads to more marijuana arrests, even in states where voters have deemed it legal. As Marijuana Majority’s Tom Angell noted on his Facebook page the Trump White House also deleted the Office of National Drug Control Policy, which included the Obama Administration’s opposition to marijuana legalization. Using the Wayback Machine, you can see that the Obama Administration’s ONDCP page: http://www.weednews.co/donald-trump-removes-marijuana-opposition-from-white-house-website/ ObamaONDCPcannabis 30 Comments Weed News Login 1 Recommend 1 Share Sort by Newest Avatar Join the discussion… Avatar Peter Lunk • an hour ago HERE is the exact page in the archives of obamawhitehouse.org that you show in your screenshot: https://obamawhitehouse.archiv... Don't make a panic where there is no reason to panic please... Focus on real things... PL. p.s. Fuck Trump ! 1 • Reply•Share › Avatar Kip Kotler • 7 hours ago BREAKING NEWS! DONALD TRUMP TELLS SUPREME COURT TO LEGALIZE WEED IN U.S. http://painhealing.co/breaking... Donald Trump Wants To Legalize Marijuana see more • Reply•Share › Avatar Gary Craig Kip Kotler • an hour ago I'll believe it when it happens, not before! • Reply•Share › Avatar Governmental Deception • 11 hours ago Jesus Cripe stop assuming first off, 2nd off Trump is giving the rights to the STATES and for the State's to choose if they want it legal or not. he is going to be for the people they work for us not us work for them. Keep making your voices heard that you want it legal and just keep his feet to the fire on it rather than being an a.... hole news sites that starts more lying rumors that aren't true. Not meaning this site in general. • Reply•Share › Avatar A Freedom Fighter • 15 hours ago It's absolutely clear that Cannabis is in wide general use throughout the United States. Whether or not cannabis is legal does not seem to make much of a difference regarding popularity and consumption. It's perfectly clear that cannabis is much safer than booze. The only open question is who will profit from the sales of cannabis, organized crime and criminals, or legitimate business with regulation and Taxation? The FBI estimates 100 BILLION dollars in illegal recreational cannabis sales occur every year here in the United States. Another 30 BILLION is lost in potential tax revenue. Another 15 BILLION is wasted on the capture and persecution simple cannabis consumers. Legalization solves all these issues and puts organized crime out of the cannabis business. All the data needed for an informed decision on cannabis legalization has already been collected and can be found at the Center for Disease Control. Figures directly from the CDC on numbers of deaths per year in the USA: * Prescription Drugs: 237,485 + 5,000 traffic fatalities * Tobacco: 600,000 * Alcohol: 88,013 + 16,000 traffic fatalities * Cocaine: 4,906 * Heroin: 7,200 * Aspirin: 466 * Acetaminophen (Tylenol): 179 * Marijuana: 0, none, not a single fatal toxic overdose in all medical history and no significant statistical record of traffic problems. So, which is safer???? Legalize, regulate, TAX! http://www.weednews.co/donald-trump-removes-marijuana-opposition-from-white-house-website/ 1 • Reply•Share › Avatar malcolmkyle • a day ago Here are several extracts from an article posted at the ‘Tenth Amendment Center’ on 30th Dec 2015, concerning Prohibition and Federal Law: “Of course, the federal government lacks any constitutional authority to ban or regulate marijuana within the borders of a state, despite the opinion of the politically connected lawyers on the Supreme Court. If you doubt this, ask yourself why it took a constitutional amendment to institute federal alcohol prohibition.” “FBI statistics show that law enforcement makes approximately 99 of 100 marijuana arrests under state, not federal law.” “Furthermore, figures indicate it would take 40 percent of the DEA’s yearly-budget just to investigate and raid all of the dispensaries in Los Angeles – a single city in a single state. That doesn’t include the cost of prosecution. The lesson? The feds lack the resources to enforce marijuana prohibition without state assistance.” “With nearly half the country legalizing marijuana, the feds find themselves in a position where they simply can’t enforce prohibition any more. The feds need state cooperation to fight the “drug war,” and that has rapidly evaporated in the last few years with state legalization, practically nullifying the ban.” “The lesson here is pretty straight forward. When enough people say, ‘No!’ to the federal government, and enough states pass laws backing those people up, there’s not much the feds can do to shove their so-called laws, regulations or mandates down our throats,” Tenth Amendment Center founder and executive director Michael Boldin said. http://www.weednews.co/donald-trump-removes-marijuana-opposition-from-white-house-website/ http://blog.tenthamendmentcent... 2 • Reply•Share › Avatar Chas Hue • a day ago Direct from Trump's inauguration speech "….January 20th 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again….Everyone is listening to you now….We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone….You will never be ignored again…" Want to bet, Sessions and other closed minded leaders think it is their God given obligation to think and decide for you. 1 • Reply•Share › Avatar A Freedom Fighter Chas Hue • 15 hours ago Trump speech was mostly about thanking the people of the world (translated means Russia) and "us" he referred to are white supremacist Neo-Nazi thugs. • Reply•Share › Avatar Heather Mehudar • a day ago For anyone who sees this and is freaking out by the scary, immediate changes to the White House website, remember is it SOP for the out-going administration to ALWAYS archive the website and reset it to "zero" for the in-coming administration. Obama's website is not gone, just archived here: https://obamawhitehouse.archiv... 1 • Reply•Share › Avatar Erich Powell • a day ago Trump nor any one of his people removed all that. It is done every time a new President takes office. But you know, the Media likes to Fearmonger so....just wait and see. Trump believes things be left to the States and the people's votes therein. 1 • Reply•Share › Avatar Chas Hue Erich Powell • a day ago This is not the media at play. Sessions made it clear he will enforce the law on the books and will not allow the President to mitigate that duty. Trump has no fewer than three very strong opponents of legalization on his team, they will likely influence him. I prefer the legislature get this resolved by removing it, I have made dozens of contacts with my elected officials over the years and nothing….like zero support for common sense action. • Reply•Share › Avatar jontomas • 2 days ago Here's some rare (early?) video coverage of the inaugural marijuana protest/give away. - It figures it's from a British newspaper. http://www.independent.co.uk/n... • Reply•Share › Avatar jontomas • 2 days ago It's helpful to consider the worst case scenario. - At worst Sessions could close down stores and large commercial grows. - The feds cannot force state and local police to go against state law and arrest consumers. In the eight legal states (and to varying degree in the 28 medical marijuana states) it will always be legal to possess, consume, grow and give away small amounts of marijuana. - This is the form of legalization achieved in Washington, D.C. So, at worst, we would all be on the D.C. model for a few years. - Then, with the sky falling nowhere, restrictions on sales would gradually fade. It's also encouraging to note that one of Trump's transition team members is Peter Thiel. He is a major backer of the Marley Natural line of marijuana products. The same goes for Trump's apparent choice of head for the FDA, Jim O'Neill. https://www.marleynatural.com/ 4 • Reply•Share › Avatar M. Simon jontomas • 2 days ago Nigel Farage will also be an unofficial advisor. Nigel favors an end to Drug Prohibition. http://classicalvalues.com/201... 5 • Reply•Share › Avatar JohnB M. Simon • a day ago And let's also not completely ignore the influence his children will have on him. It's entirely possible that he will give substantial weight to the opinions of his daughter and son-in-law, more so than any of his cabinet members, and they are of the generation that is overwhelmingly in favor of legalization. • Reply•Share › Avatar Gary Craig JohnB • an hour ago I think, for better or worse, the Koch brothers are for legalizing. On the other hand Shelly FunBucks is most definitely against it. At least in the US he is. • Reply•Share › Avatar M. Simon • 2 days ago He also removed the "Climate/Global Warming" stuff. 1 • Reply•Share › Avatar Daniel Bashers • 2 days ago After reading up on Sessions I have a slight glimmer of hope. He has said (not a direct quote) his job is to enforce federal laws and if states are going to be left alone to legalize cannabis federal laws need to changed. His hard line views may end up working in our favor. If the choice is 100% illegal an completely shutting down all medicinal or ending federal prohibition I think the latter will prevail. I appreciate Obama for what he did to help but he wasn't willing to make a hard stance to legalize. Trump says he agrees 100% with medicinal and if Sessions pushes him over enforcing federal law or changing federal law he will be in favor changing federal law. With that said, Trump is a wild card so you never know but I just don't see him ending medicinal. 1 • Reply•Share › Avatar Cannawitch • 2 days ago why you frontin? these pages were all part of the obama admin, therefore they get archived and trump will create new ones... just like obama did when he took office.... ...why would you think barry and donald would have the same opinion or agenda.... do a little more fact checking eh .... dont contribute to propaganda bro 1 • Reply•Share › Avatar Jorge Cervantes • 2 days ago We do not know exactly what the Trump administration will do regarding cannabis policy. The guy shoots from the hip, confuses and creates chaos. Once the waters are muddy and choppy, he could shoot salvos across the bow or say nothing. 2 • Reply•Share › Avatar Daniel Bashers Jorge Cervantes • 2 days ago Mr Cervantes is a living legend in cannabis. Much respect sir, I've bought your books an wish I had the freedom to practice your growing techniques. Unfortunately, too much risk to attempt at the moment. Sickens me I have to support the black market instead. 1 • Reply•Share › Avatar claygooding • 2 days ago I am sure to some people Donald Trump is a successful businessman but I haven't seen it,,he has more bankruptcies than anyone I ever heard of. 3 • Reply•Share › Avatar M. Simon claygooding • 2 days ago He has at least a million dollars and some hotels. I don't have any of that. He seems successful enough to me. 1 • Reply•Share › Avatar Ryan744 M. Simon • 9 hours ago If he had just put his whole inheritance into an index fund and sat on a couch for the last 40 years, he would be much richer and have created many more jobs. This makes him a business failure. He lost ONE ENTIRE BILLION DOLLARS in a single year. This is despite all of his shady business practices to increase his net worth. (banning black people from his apartments in the 70's, wrongfully refusing to pay contractors, multiple bankruptcies, running a scam university, bribing Pam Bondi, using illegal Polish immigrant labor, using his fake foundation to pay his personal lawsuits and buy life-size portraits of himself, etc.) • Reply•Share › Avatar Gary Craig M. Simon • 16 hours ago I only wish I'd have been born with a "silver spoon" in mouth. I was born with a spoon in my mouth. Unfortunately it was a splintered wooden one. • Reply•Share › Avatar Michael Roland M. Simon • 2 days ago He only license his name out on those hotels, and the Chinese own the majority stakes in them. Most of his money is paper money, not liquid. 2 • Reply•Share › Avatar saynotohypocrisy M. Simon • 2 days ago Who knows? Who knows how much he owes, or to who? • Reply•Share › Avatar darthhillbilly • 2 days ago The whitehouse.gov site also has the "We The People" section still up. Three petitions are on there as of now, one has to do with legal hemp. I'm waiting for a medicinal/recreational petition to surface. I'm curious to see the response given by the Trump administration... • Reply•Share › Avatar Gary Craig • 2 days ago Let's see how that page looks once it has been updated. I'm hoping for the best. Trump did say it should be a state decision, at least while a candidate. Shortly, very shortly, we'll know how he really intends to govern on this matter. Hope it's a continuation of Obama and not Nixon/Reagan/Bush 1&2. • Reply•Share › Avatar M. Simon Gary Craig • 2 days ago The CIA has been attacking Trump. The The Trillion Dollar A Year Scam CIA. Do you think he will do something against those fellers? I'd bet on it.. 1 • Reply•Share › And Donald Trump’s ONDCP page, on his inauguration day, looks like this: TrumpONDCP Does this mean that Donald Trump is going to change the federal government’s opposition to marijuana legalization and call for an end to cannabis prohibition? Unfortunately, not likely. There are definite warning signs about the Trump Administration, notably his nomination of Jeff Sessions for attorney general, so the best that we can really expect is a continuation of the Obama Administration’s policy of leaving states alone to make their own marijuana policy. As Tom Angell mentioned, these website changes are likely just “a broader transition reset and aren’t themselves any kind of policy indication.” But, since I had several pro-Trump legalization supporters touting his business acumen as an example of why he’ll ultimately be good on marijuana policy, I’m gonna hold out hope that President Trump will channel The Donald that called for the legalization of all drugs back in the early 1990s. Hey, a boy can dream, right? Photo credit: Donkey Hotey More From This Topic Donald Trump Is Too Authoritarian to Trust His Marijuana Policy Jeff Sessions Gives 'Wishy Washy' Response To Questions About Marijuana Trump Selects Marijuana Opponent Jeff Sessions To Be Attorney General Jeff Sessions Will Drastically Harm the Marijuana Industry MPP: Jeff Sessions Did NOT Commit to Vigorously Enforcing Prohibition http://www.weednews.co/donald-trump-removes-marijuana-opposition-from-white-house-website/