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Attorney General Jeff Sessions is making it crystal clear that he’s not on the pot bandwagon with new letters to three adult-use states on how they plan on addressing what he called “serious issues” surrounding marijuana use.
Sessions wrote a letter to Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, as well as similar ones to Washington State and Oregon who also have recreationally legal pot.
In his letters, Sessions writes about his concerns over a 2016 study that found some negative associations between cannabis legal states and increased dangers in Colorado such as:
- Increases in highway patrol seizures
- Increases in youth use
- Increases in traffic deaths and emergency department visits
The July 24 letter to Colorado was reported by The Cannabist:
“These findings are relevant to the policy debate concerning marijuana legalization,” Sessions wrote. “… please advise as to how Colorado plans to address the serious findings in the Rocky Mountain HIDTA report, including efforts to ensure that all marijuana activity is compliant with state marijuana laws, to combat diversion of marijuana, to protect public health and safety, and to prevent marijuana use by minors.”
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