U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ revealed that he’ll roll back an Obama-era protection for cannabis-legal states, leaving Maryland’s future with legal cannabis up in the air.
Sessions on Thursday morning announced “a return to the rule of law” on cannabis, reversing the so-called Cole Memo, which in 2013 directed federal officials not to intervene in states that legalize marijuana if government officials made sure weed would remain within their state’s borders and not contribute to juvenile use or drug trafficking by gangs.
Sessions’ memo comes days after California’s new law took effect permitting and regulating recreational cannabis for adult use.
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