Gavin Newsom, a leading supporter of Proposition 64, sent a letter to President Trump on Friday, urging him not to carry through with threats to launch a federal enforcement effort against recreational marijuana firms that will be legalized in California. Newsom’s letter attempts to persuade the president that a regulated market for adult-use marijuana is preferable to what has existed in the past. “The war on marijuana has failed,” Newsom wrote. “The government must not strip the legal and publicly supported industry of its business and hand it back to drug cartels and criminals,” Newsom wrote to Trump. “Unlike marijuana, opioids represent an addictive and harmful substance, and I would welcome your administration’s focused efforts on tacking this particular public health crisis,” he wrote.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 24, 2017 21:53 UTC