{"id":1812,"date":"2017-07-25T20:01:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T20:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2017-07-25T20:01:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T20:01:45","slug":"major-lawsuit-filed-against-jeff-sessions-to-legalize-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/2017\/07\/25\/major-lawsuit-filed-against-jeff-sessions-to-legalize-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Lawsuit filed against Jeff Sessions to legalize Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1813\" src=\"http:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1200x628-med-mmj.001-1-1024x536.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1200x628-med-mmj.001-1-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1200x628-med-mmj.001-1-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1200x628-med-mmj.001-1-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1200x628-med-mmj.001-1.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Jets defensive end Marvin Washington is now tackling Attorney General Jeff Sessions \u2014 suing the head of the Department of Justice to decriminalize marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Washington is one of five plaintiffs in a new Manhattan federal lawsuit against Sessions, the DOJ and the Drug Enforcement Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The suit challenges the constitutionality of the 1970 Controlled Substance Act that classifies marijuana as a dangerous substance, in the same category as heroin or LSD.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClassifying cannabis as a \u2018Schedule I drug\u2019 is so irrational that it violates the U.S. Constitution,\u201d the suit says. Meth and cocaine are schedule II drugs and thus considered more benign than marijuana under the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe record makes clear that the CSA doesn\u2019t make any rational sense and the federal government knows it,\u201d said attorney Michael Hiller, who represents Washington and the other plaintiffs, including 11-year-old Alexis Bortell, who needs medical marijuana treatment for epilepsy, and disabled military veteran Jose Belen, who uses the drug to control his post-traumatic stress disorder.<\/p>\n<p>Washington is suing because the CSA prevents him from obtaining federal grants to open a business that would allow pro football players to use medical marijuana for pain management in lieu of more addictive opioids.<\/p>\n<p>Washington was drafted by the Jets in 1989 and won the Super Bowl with the Denver Broncos in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>A DOJ spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Sessions has said that he\u2019s \u201cnot a fan of expanded use of marijuana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>originally posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/07\/24\/ex-jets-player-sues-jeff-sessions-to-legalize-marijuana\/\">nypost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"mantis__recommended__wordpress\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\">\n    MANTIS_RECOMMEND = {\n        property: '556c86bbbf60bd001d672ecb',\n        render: 'mantis__recommended__wordpress'\n    };\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\">\n\tvar z = document.createElement(\"script\");\n\tz.type = \"text\/javascript\";\n\tz.async = true;\n\tz.src = \"\/\/assets.mantisadnetwork.com\/recommend.min.js\";\n\tvar s = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];\n\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(z, s);\n<\/script><\/p>\n<link href=\"\/\/assets.mantisadnetwork.com\/recommend.3columns.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text\/css\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Jets defensive end Marvin Washington is now tackling Attorney General Jeff Sessions \u2014 suing the head of the Department of Justice to decriminalize marijuana. Washington is one of five plaintiffs in a new Manhattan federal lawsuit against Sessions, the DOJ and the Drug Enforcement Agency. The suit challenges the constitutionality of the 1970 Controlled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1200x628-med-mmj.001-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannachronicle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}