Is Big Cannabis Doing Enough to Fight Trump’s Nominee for Attorney General?
Critical op-ed argues that if the industry is actually so nervous about Jeff Sessions, it should oppose his appointment.
On Friday, avid cannabis journalist Alex Halperin published a scathing critique of the pot industry’s post-election posture at Slate. He contends that despite the legal weed sector’s professed anxiety and handwringing over President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions for U.S. Attorney General, it’s not really doing anything to try and stop it, even though the ballooning industry now has more clout than ever with the political establishment.
He leads by noting how Sessions’ nomination has rightfully incensed supporters of other progressive causes, like those rallying to protect minority communities in the face of Sessions’ documented history of racist views. Yet cannabusiness and pro- legalization groups, Halperin asserts, like the National Cannabis Industry Association—even in light of Sessions’ recent reactionary rhetoric towards cannabis (e.g. “good people don’t smoke marijuana”)—have issued appeasing...
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