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Days after recreational pot became legal in California, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided to revoke the Obama-era guidance that's allowed state legal marijuana markets to flourish, according to the Associated Press, which also reports that Sessions plans to allow local U.S. attorneys to decide how aggressively to enforce federal marijuana law.
Sessions' decision puts state legal businesses in significant jeopardy. Large-scale growers, processors, distributors and wholesalers and even high-volume pot shops are now at risk of being targeted as though they were drug kingpins.
The Trump administration's move flies in the face of public opinion. Support for legalization has never been higher. A recent Gallup poll found nearly two-thirds of Americans believe recreational marijuana should be legal, including now a majority of Republicans.
The attorney general's move brought swift condemnation from both Republicans and Democrats in Washington. National Republican Senatorial Committee head Sen. Cory Gardner, who represents Colorado, where the marijuana market is legal and thriving, blasted Sessions as a liar. "This reported action directly contradicts what Attorney General Sessions told me prior to his confirmation," Gardner tweeted. "The Justice Department has trampled on the will of the voters in CO and other states," he wrote, vowing he'll fight back: "I am prepared to take all steps necessary, including holding DOJ nominees, until the Attorney General lives up to the commitment he made to me prior to his confirmation."
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Cha
(297,661 posts)save our Planet!
Mahalo, Yo
temporary311
(955 posts)legalization. Anything else is just posturing.
regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)...who has already stated that he opposes legalization of recreational marijuana.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)superpatriotman
(6,252 posts)Pot and ancillary stocks down across the board 20-30%. The best people, indeed.
Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)It would be so easy for there to be all kinds of meetings and then for Sessions to issue a new order that does the same thing the Cole order did. Not that they would ever even think of doing something like that.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)n/t.
elias7
(4,026 posts)But he couldnt have lied about anything else, eh, Cory?