COLORADO SPRINGS — The Trump administration’s tough talk on marijuana is creating an unusual alliance: pot smokers and the conservative Koch political network. Holden suggested Sessions’ position represents a “failed big government top-down approach.” “It’s based on fear and emotion in my opinion,” he added. Drugs won,” he told reporters as the network opened a three-day retreat Saturday at The Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ directive to re-evaluate marijuana policies is a particular problem. The 2014 policy prohibits the Justice Department from using federal dollars to block states from legalizing the “use, distribution, possession or cultivation of medical marijuana.” When it comes to medical marijuana, Holden argued it “should be off-limits” to a federal law enforcement crackdown.
COLORADO SPRINGS — The Trump administration’s tough talk on marijuana is creating an unusual alliance: pot smokers and the conservative Koch political network.
Mark Holden, one of the influential network’s top leaders, decried President Donald Trump’s administration for returning to the “harsh sentencing era of the war on drugs.”
“You are never going to win the war on drugs. Drugs won,” he told reporters as the network opened a three-day retreat Saturday at The Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ directive to re-evaluate marijuana policies is a particular problem. Even though it remains...
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