Sessions could theoretically use federal enforcement power to try to cripple what is already a $6 billion business that may soon triple after California, Massachusetts, Nevada and Maine voted in November to legalize recreational use of the drug.
By nominating Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III for attorney general, President-elect Donald J. Trump is about to put into the nation’s top law enforcement job a man with a long and antagonistic attitude toward marijuana. As a U.S. Attorney in Alabama in the 1980s, Sessions said he thought the KKK "were OK until I found out they smoked pot.” In April, he said, “Good people don't smoke marijuana,” and that it was a "very real danger" that is “not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized.”
In a floor speech earlier this year, Senator Sessions said: "You can’t have the President of the United States of America talking about marijuana like it is no different than taking a drink… It is different….It is already causing a disturbance in the states that have made it legal.”
Jeff Sessions qualifications for Attorney General are...
* Being rejected by Republican Senate Committee for racist views and deemed unfit to serve as federal judge.
* Opposing marijuana legalization and thinks "good people don't smoke marijuana".
* Opposing sentencing reform non-violent drug offences.
* Saying the Ku Klux Klan was fine "until I found out they smoked pot".
If he is confirmed for Attorney General, will he put all marijuana companies out of business for good?