DOJ presses Colorado on marijuana cases
DOJ presses Colorado on marijuana cases
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/doj-presses-colorado-on-marijuana-cases/
President Donald Trumps aides have publicly promised a crackdown on states that have legalized marijuana and the new White House administration may already be taking steps to make good on that pledge, according to an email obtained by International Business Times.
The correspondence showed a Justice Department official requesting information about marijuana cases from the state Attorney Generals office in Colorado one of five states where voters have passed ballot measures to legalize the recreational use of cannabis. The email came just after both a top White House official and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions reiterated the Trump administrations opposition to marijuana legalization at the state level.
Are you able to provide me the state docket numbers for the following cases? said the email from a Justice Department official to Michael Melito, a prosecutor in Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffmans office. Some of our intel people are trying to track down info regarding some of DEAs better marijuana investigations for the new administration. Hopefully it will lead to some positive changes.
The email, dated March 6, was obtained by IBT through an open records request. The specific identity of the sender was redacted, but the email signature appeared to be from a group supervisor on the financial investigations team of the Drug Enforcement Agencys field office in Denver.