Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that
previous policies of non-interference with states that have legalized marijuana
are "unnecessary" and called
on US attorneys to enforce the Controlled Substances Act, reported
Jurist.
Sessions has indicated that US attorneys should begin
prosecution of those who cultivate, distribute or possess marijuana, launder
money, or in any other way break national laws prohibiting marijuana. In the
memo, the attorney general called marijuana "dangerous" and activity
surrounding the drug to be a "serious crime."
Specifically, Sessions has invalidated former deputy
attorney general David Ogden's 2009 memo authorizing the medical use of
marijuana, and former deputy attorney general James Cole's memos giving
guidance to medical enforcement, financial
crimes and general
enforcement. The abolished memos moved in a direction towards tolerance and
non-interference.
This change raises questions of whether previously
halted raids of marijuana facilities might start up again.
Additionally, Sessions' memo might contradict United
States v. McIntosh , in which the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit ruled against the enforcement of the Controlled Substance Act for
medical marijuana.
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