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House Speaker Tom Leonard
Republican state House Speaker Tom Leonard, a candidate for Michiugan attorney general, thinks U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions shouldn't allow crackdowns on medical and recreational marijuana in states where it's legal.
"He needs to back off," Leonard told Jonathan Oosting of The Detroit News, calling marijuana a states’ rights issue that voters here and in other states have already or may soon decide. "I don’t believe the federal government has any right coming in here to try to enforce marijuana laws."
The News reports:
The DeWitt Republican is the latest candidate for state attorney general to speak out against the move by Sessions, appointed last year by GOP President Donald Trump. Democrats Dana Nessel of Plymouth Township and Pat Miles of Grand Rapids last week lambasted Sessions.
Sessions just recently reversed non-intervention policies by the Obama administration that discouraged federal prosecutors from cracking down on pot in states where it is legal.
Session gets pushback from state attorney generals around the country.
