Trump Threatens to Defy Congress to Go After Medical Marijuana

‘Congress moved to protect medical marijuana by including in its stop-gap federal spending bill a provision barring the Justice Department from using federal funds to go after the drug in states where medical marijuana is legal, but now, President Trump says that doesn’t matter.
Even though Trump signed the spending bill into law last Friday, he included a signing statement objecting to numerous provisions in the bill—including the ban on funds to block the implementation of medical marijuana laws in those states.
Despite those state laws, marijuana remains illegal under federal law, which also does not recognize “medical marijuana.”‘
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