The decision is certain to provoke a fight with the states that have legalized recreational marijuana. Those states are Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon and Washington and the District of Columbia.

Jay Inslee, Washington state’s Democratic governor, made it clear earlier this month that the state would fight hard if the Trump team tried to block its recreational pot sales. “I think it would be a really big mistake for them to pick this fight, and I hope it will not occur,” Inslee said.

California legalization could translate to $5 billion in annual retail sales if Trump doesn’t intervene, according to estimates from Marijuana Business Daily. A cannabis caucus formed in Congress last week and vowed to fight Trump, if necessary, and protect legalization. Among the co-founders is Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican and Trump supporter whose name was floated for secretary of state before ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson got the job.

Nevada Senate Majority Leader Aaron D. Ford called on the state’s attorney general to “vigorously defend” the state’s laws.

“Not only did voters overwhelmingly vote to approve the legalization of recreational marijuana, the governor’s proposed education budget depends on tax revenue from recreational marijuana sales,” Ford said. “Any action by the Trump administration would be an insult to Nevada voters and would pick the pockets of Nevada’s students.”

Seventy-one percent of voters say the government should not enforce federal marijuana laws in states that have legalized medical or recreational marijuana use, according to a Quinnipiac University Poll released Thursday. Fifty nine percent support legalizing recreational marijuana while 93 percent of Americans support medical marijuana use.

Trump administration plans crackdown on recreational marijuana

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I really doubt that the states which have legalized it will give up the tax revenues easily.

sounds like liberal propaganda...

Coming to every corner near you toot with Trump marijuana.. recreational and medical store..lol

That's great.
Seeing as Trump is the head of the executive branch.
Charged with enforcing the laws that are in place.
So basically "Trump administration plans on doing its job."

Oh dear oh dear, if only the "founding fathers" had set up a whole other branch of government that can change the laws, or enact laws that help define how the executive branch can enforce them, or control how much money the executive branch has to pursue enforcement of certain laws.


Then 71 percent of voters should vote better and put people in place that will remove the laws, the power to enforce the laws, or those that will actually change them.

Is this the future of "democracy?"
Enact laws regarding every aspect of life, then a la carte choose via polls which laws should be enforced, and when?

Oh no! The dreaded Trump administration is going to enforce laws?



Run for your lives!

The last thing we need is to make it easier for our children to indulge in a substance that will make them stupid and lazy. Medical use only. For recreational use ,find a buddy with a connection.

maybe cracking down on recreational cocaine will be next,,,

or maybe just build more 'rehabs' ....lol

I don't think we could build enough...

I like Cambells soup