{"id":19356,"date":"2025-06-03T20:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T19:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=19356"},"modified":"2025-06-03T20:53:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T19:53:38","slug":"nnoac-urges-president-trump-to-not-weaken-enforcement-of-federal-drug-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2025\/06\/nnoac-urges-president-trump-to-not-weaken-enforcement-of-federal-drug-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"NNOAC Urges President Trump to Not Weaken Enforcement of Federal Drug Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Immediate Release<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

June 7, 2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Contact: Bob Bushman<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

bbushman@nnoac.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The National Narcotics Officers Association Coalition today released a letter to the President urging him not to weaken the memo issued by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions on January 4, 2018. The letter warns the President of the connection between legalized marijuana, the black market, and foreign cartel activity, as extensively documented by\u00a0NBC News\u00a0and\u00a0Newsweek.<\/span><\/p>\n

The text of the letter is as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

June 7, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n

The President<\/span><\/p>\n

The White House<\/span><\/p>\n

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.<\/span><\/p>\n

Washington, D.C., 20500<\/span><\/p>\n

Dear Mr. President,<\/span><\/p>\n

We write as representatives for major law enforcement organizations representing federal, state, and local law enforcement. We are deeply concerned about reports that you may be considering action to overturn the January 4, 2018 Memorandum from the Department of Justice that merely restates current federal drug laws.<\/span><\/p>\n

The fact is, gangs and cartels have been making liberal use of legalization to provide cover for their illegal activities. These gangs have ties to Mexican, Cuban, Vietnamese, and Russian cartels.[i]<\/a>\u00a0The gangs often purchase homes in residential neighborhoods, wire in extra electricity and water capacity, and convert them into multi-million dollar grow houses in suburban neighborhoods. These gangs are also trafficking in other illegal drugs, organized crime, and prostitution. Crime has been steadily increasing in Colorado in all categories since legalization, including violent crimes.[ii]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Make no mistake, the black market does not honor state lines. Colorado and other legalized states have many embarrassing examples of providing cover for trafficking of marijuana to other states. In one of the most egregious examples,\u00a0Operation Toker Poker, 62 people and 12 businesses were indicted for growing marijuana\u00a0under the cover of legalization. Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman said, “The black market for marijuana has not gone away since recreational marijuana was legalized in our state, and in fact continues to flourish.”[iii]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In another example, an organized crime unit with multiple licenses to grow and manufacture marijuana was finally caught after several years of shipping marijuana to other states. The Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Colorado indicated that this was a common arrangement.[iv]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Other states, like Oregon and California, have been growing much more marijuana than the state can consume and are mass exporters of marijuana to other states. The\u00a0California Growers Association\u00a0estimates that their members grow at least eight times as much marijuana as the entire state of California can consume and ship the rest out of state.[v]<\/a>\u00a0The Oregon State Police estimate that their state grows\u00a0four to five times\u00a0as much as it can consume, shipping the rest as far as Florida and even abroad.[vi]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

We urge you to see through the smoke screen and reject attempts to encourage more drug use\u00a0in America.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/span><\/p>\n

National Sheriffs’ Association<\/span><\/p>\n

Major County Sheriffs’ Association<\/span><\/p>\n

Major Cities Chiefs Association<\/span><\/p>\n

National Narcotics Officers’ Associations’ Coalition<\/span><\/p>\n

National High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Directors’ Association<\/span><\/p>\n

Law Enforcement Action Network<\/span><\/p>\n

CC: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marc Short, Office of Legislative Affairs<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Kellyanne Conway, Counselor to the President<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0James Carroll, Acting Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Honorable Jefferson Sessions, Attorney General of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: Copy of letter June 2018 https:\/\/www.nnoac.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Immediate Release June 7, 2018 Contact: Bob Bushman bbushman@nnoac.com The National Narcotics Officers Association Coalition today released a letter to the President urging him not to weaken the memo issued by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions on January 4, 2018. The letter warns the President of the connection between legalized marijuana, the black market, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,32,82,12,104,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-crime-violence-prison","category-economic","category-legal-sector","category-political-sector","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}