Stephen Colbert on Thursday night ripped Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status White House officials voted by show of hands on 2018 family separations: report MORE for undoing an Obama-era directive to not prioritize the prosecution of marijuana-related offenses.

“Come on Jeff, you’re the states' rights guy,” Colbert said. “Would it help you if they smoked the weed out of a rolled-up Confederate flag?”

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“This new directive from Sessions can mean only one thing,” Colbert continued. “He still doesn’t know that white people smoke pot too.”

The late-night host then compared Session’s stance on heroin to that of Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersMcConnell accuses Democrats of sowing division by 'downplaying progress' on election security The Hill's Campaign Report: Arizona shifts towards Biden | Biden prepares for drive-in town hall | New Biden ad targets Latino voters Why Democrats must confront extreme left wing incitement to violence MORE (I-Vt.) who slammed Session’s move by saying that “marijuana is not the same as heroin.”

“Sessions knows that marijuana isn’t heroin because he’s on record as saying that marijuana is only slightly less awful than heroin,” Colbert said.

“It’s true, they’re very close. You take heroin, you die. You smoke marijuana, you die laughing at Jeff Sessions.”

The Justice Department announced Thursday that it would reverse the Obama-era policy, which helped laws allowing for the use of recreational marijuana in states to prosper.

The U.S. attorney for Colorado — where the use and possession of marijuana was legalized in 2012 — said the state wouldn't change how it prosecutes marijuana-related offenses.