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US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rescinded an Obama-era policy that eased enforcement of federal marijuana laws – in a move that critics say is the latest example of Trump administration policies that could hurt communities of colour who have historically been targeted by anti-drug directives.
An official at the Justice Department said that the policies put in place by the administration of President Barack Obama to ease federal enforcement of recreational marijuana distributors abiding by state laws ‘created a safe harbour for the marijuana industry to operate in these states and… there is a belief that that is inconsistent with what the federal law says’.
Federal prosecutors have now been instructed to disregard that Obama policy and have been instructed to approach recreational marijuana dispensaries operating in accordance to state law in the same way that they would any other case.
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