Three days later, Donald Trump’s administration announced a policy that could allow US prosecutors to target legal marijuana operations and undermine California’s massive cannabis movement. “There should be no doubt that President Trump has officially declared war on California,” state senate leader Kevin de León told the Guardian on Thursday after the US attorney general, Jeff Sessions, rescinded an Obama-era policy that opened the door for states to legalize marijuana. “These are bullying tactics of the Trump administration,” said Barbara Lee, a congresswoman in northern California who has protested against the president since his inauguration. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A sales clerk with cannabis plants at a cannabis dispensary in Oakland, California. Keith Kolb, a 57-year-old San Francisco resident, said a Trump war on California weed would further unite angry voters.

Source: The Guardian January 05, 2018 11:01 UTC