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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been busy sending letters to legal states that express his disdain for their supposed inability to follow the rules outlined in the Cole Memo, a signal, some say, that suggests the Justice Department is building a case for a federal marijuana crackdown.
But one Colorado lawmaker says he isn’t buying it. He said the letters are simply a “political ploy,” devised to reiterate the federal government’s position on marijuana.
State Representative Dan Pabon, a Democrat, who suffered unwanted media attention last year after pleading guilty to a drunk driving charge, was in Boston earlier this week as part of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) summit. Pabon, a strong advocate for protecting the sanctity of Colorado’s recreational marijuana laws, said during a panel discussion that the Trump administration has been dipping into its sack of alternative facts to show that legalization is not a functional policy.
The attorney general is “trying to do what he feels like he needs to do to demonstrate the administration’s position of cracking down on marijuana,” Pabon said, according to The Denver…
