Indopedia All Things Marijuana
Although there remains a great deal of uncertainty with respect to whether U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will impose a federal crackdown on the legal marijuana industry, a recent interview with Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper suggests that the Justice Department may already have its hands too full with other, more pressing matters to give much, if any, attention to the legal cannabis industry.
On Wednesday, Hickenlooper told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd that after meeting with Attorney General Sessions, he doesn’t believe the federal government is going to step in and pull the plug on legal weed. He said Sessions was more than willing to listen when he told him that Colorado has not seen a significant increase in teenage marijuana consumption since legalization, and that he got the feeling that while Session isn’t likely to change his personal opinion of marijuana, he has other priorities.
Hickenlooper said that at one point, [Sessions] told him, “Well, you haven’t seen us cracking down, have you?” adding that his interpretation of the comment is that the Justice Department has its hands too full combatting heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine to put much…
