According to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Trump Administration could be making policy changes in regards to marijuana.
U.S. Department of Justice officials met this week to discuss the potential changes to federal marijuana enforcement policy said Sessions, who is an opponent of marijuana legalization.
He stated, “We’re working on that very hard right now. We had meetings yesterday and talked about it at some length. It’s my view that the use of marijuana is detrimental and we should not give encouragement in any way to it. And it represents a federal violation which is in the law and is subject to being enforced, and our priorities will have to be focused on all the things and challenges that we face.”
“We’ve got fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and prescription drugs and marijuana and other drugs. So we’ll be working our way through to a rational policy,” he also added.
““But I don’t want to suggest in any way that this Department believes that marijuana is harmless and people should not avoid it.”
Sessions had recently testified before the House Judiciary Committee and said, “Our policy is the same, really, fundamentally as the Holder-Lynch policy, which is that the federal law remains in effect and a state can legalize marijuana for its law enforcement purposes but it still remains illegal with regard to federal purposes.”