By appointing Steve Cook to oversee the Justice Department’s focus on cannabis, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has once again doubled down on his archaic criminal justice stance and left the door wide open for a large-scale legal weed crackdown.

Cannabis Decriminalization Is Working, Brooklyn DA Tells AG Sessions – News

By appointing Steve Cook to oversee the Justice Department’s focus on cannabis, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has once again doubled down on his archaic criminal justice stance and left the door wide open for a large-scale legal weed crackdown. Outside of Sessions’ immediate circle though, not everyone is excited about implementing the new set of law and order tactics.

In an opinion article published by City and State New York, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez spoke out against Sessions’ push for mandatory minimums and made it known that cannabis decriminalization is working in his densely populated borough.

“My views on this issue are shaped by my work as the district attorney in Brooklyn and the 22 years that I’ve worked in the office.” Gonzalez wrote. “While keeping the people of Brooklyn safe is my top priority, I also know that we are never going to incarcerate ourselves to safety and we are never going to change our communities by only putting people in prison.”

Gonzalez continued by detailing the ways in which a 2014 decision to decriminalize small-quantity marijuana possession has been a huge success for a District Attorney’s office…

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