Trump picks are a bummer for legal weed

Potheads and medicinal marijuana users alike may be getting some coal in their pipes in the New Year.

While President-elect Donald Trump promised to allow states to keep their vast array of marijuana laws if he were elected, he’s also tapped some of Washington’s biggest marijuana foes to serve in his cabinet. If confirmed, they would have the power to enforce the federal marijuana prohibition that supersedes state’s legalization efforts.

This spring his pick to be the next attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), told Politico, “Good people don’t smoke marijuana.” Sessions alone could redirect the DEA to go after legal marijuana growers in states from Maine to Alaska.