Jeff Sessions is a hardline opponent of marijuana, who stated in 2016 marijuana "is dangerous, it cannot be played with, it is not funny, it's not something to laugh about, and trying to send the message with clarity, that good people don't smoke marijuana." Sessions has signaled the Justice Department will no longer allow states to experiment with the legalization of marijuana, a departure from guidance set forth by his predecessor Barack Obama.

He has already formally changed the direction of the Justice Department away from guidelines allowing judges to deviate from mandatory minimum sentencing in regards to non-violent drug offenders. Like his boss trump, Sessions peddles alternative facts in order to create a dystopian alternate reality in which the United States is a desolate hellscape characterized by brutal crime, on the brink of disaster. In spite of being contradicted by all facts, evidence, and testimony from scholars and experts, Sessions has pledged a strict crackdown on drug users, to punish the individual as severely as possible.

It's worth note the Jusice Department under Sessions also reinstated the use of private prisons. The CEOs of these prison corporations are major donors to the Republican party and have bet the house on the new President. Critics point out the major conflict of interest in private companies benefiting off of people like human batteries, enriching themselves via incarceration of small-time, non-violent drug users, locking humans in cages for altering their own consciousness.