Pubdate: Wed, 07 Dec 2016
Source: USA Today (US)
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Author: Trevor Hughes

ANTI-POT ATTORNEY GENERAL CHOICE RATTLES LEGAL DRIVE

DENVER - Legal pot's future is in a haze, thanks to President-elect
Trump's nomination of a staunchly anti-marijuana lawmaker for attorney
general.

"Good people don't smoke marijuana," said Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff
Sessions in an April Senate hearing.

That view from the nation's incoming top cop, a sharply different tone
than President Obama's, has cast a pall over an industry that's
recently celebrated a watershed moment. Voters in eight states relaxed
their marijuana laws on Nov. 8, raising to 29 the states that now
permit medical use of marijuana, and eight with legal recreational
laws on the books.
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