Articles tagged with "Jeff Sessions"
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The Haymaker: Will Trump Fire Sessions by the Time You Finish This Headline?
Bruce Barcott - Published on July 25, 2017Read moreThe President’s fury has reached a boiling point. Is a recess appointment in the works?
Jeff Sessions Ready to Ramp Up More Asset Forfeitures
Bruce Barcott and Gage Peake - Published on July 17, 2017Read moreHold onto your assets: The AG wants to bring back the abused and widely discredited practice.
Jeff Sessions’ (Unfounded) Love Letter to DARE
Ben Adlin - Published on July 11, 2017Read moreAt the anti-drug organization’s 30th annual conference, Sessions sang the group’s praises. One problem: DARE didn’t work.
Koch Network Warns Trump Against ‘Failed’ Cannabis Fight
Gage Peake - Published on June 26, 2017Read moreThe conservative Koch political network is coming out hard against the Trump administration’s plan to step up enforcement of the nation’s cannabis laws.
Leafly Interview: Dirty Trickster Roger Stone Talks Cannabis Legalization & Trump
Ed Murrieta - Published on June 16, 2017Read moreThe notorious Republican operative, a player in the Trump Russia investigation, just formed a cannabis legalization group. WTF?
The Haymaker: Which Patients Will Sessions ‘Come After’ First?
Bruce Barcott - Published on June 13, 2017Read moreThe AG considers medical marijuana a crime. Here are the mothers, veterans, nurses, kindergartners and Congressmen he’d arrest.
Oregon Officials Met With Feds to Defend Legal Cannabis
Gage Peake - Published on June 13, 2017Read moreOfficials in states that have legalized cannabis continue to strategize how to defend their state’s cannabis industries from the feds and AG Sessions.
Jeff Sessions Asks Congress to End Medical Cannabis Protections
Ben Adlin - Published on June 12, 2017Read moreIn a May 1 letter to congressional leaders, Sessions urged federal lawmakers to oppose a crucial provision known as the Rohrabacher–Blumenauer amendment.
Introducing ‘The Haymaker,’ Leafly’s Politics & Culture Column. This Week: Sessions Out?
Bruce Barcott - Published on June 7, 2017Read moreIn his new weekly column, Leafly Deputy Editor Bruce Barcott dreams of the Justice Department after the departure of Jefferson Beauregard.
Brooklyn DA Challenges Sessions, Says Decriminalization Works
Gage Peake - Published on May 30, 2017Read moreActing Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez has long advocated against prosecuting low-level marijuana crimes, especially since taking office in 2016.