Jeff Sessions On Move To Crackdown On Legal Marijuana
Reports out of Washington D.C. indicate that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is prepared to rescind the Obama administrations’ directive that allowed U.S. attorneys to decide how aggressively to pursue enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that have legalized marijuana for recreational and medicinal use. Sessions is known for his hard line stance on marijuana, saying that people who use marijuana are “bad people” and comparing marijuana to heroin. This news comes only days after California began legal sales of recreational marijuana. Other states that have legalized marijuana will be waiting to see what effect this will have on the flourishing legal marijuana business, which is pulling in millions of dollars of tax revenue in those states, which include Nevada. An announcement on this issue is expected from Session’s office sometime today.