Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rescinding Obama-era Justice Department guidelines that aimed to not interfere in states that had legalized marijuana. The new change in policy was confirmed to NPR’s @relucasz.
Colorado, California and several other states have enacted laws that range from decriminalizing marijuana to openly authorizing it for recreational use. But marijuana remains illegal under federal law.
Sessions’ new policy authorizes U.S. attorneys to decide how to proceed with this in their jurisdictions, which opens the door to more enforcement than has been in practice over the past few years from the federal level.
Sessions, a former Alabama senator, has long viewed pot as a public menace and a source of street crime. n.pr/2E4KlYw
