In fact, when President Obama famously stated that marijuana is no more dangerous than drinking alcohol, Jeff Sessions had a notoriously insane meltdown, claiming "It's a mistake. We have seen this experiment before. Lives are at risk." He continues to propagate the demonstrably untrue claim that marijuana is a gateway drug and linked the declining US murder rate to the War on Marijuana. His opinions on marijuana have nothing to do with science, research, or evidence, bur rather reefer madness propaganda of the early 20th century. He is completely backwards and out-of-touch with reality.

Regardless of your opinion of the Obama Administration, he has allowed states to experiment with legal and medical marijuana free of federal interference. Marijuana is illegal according to the US Government and scheduled with heroin and cocaine and LSD as the most dangerous substances on earth with zero noted medical value (a preposterous statement). He has the power to interfere with states that have experimented with legal and medical cannabis, but he hasn't. He has chosen NOT to enforce federal laws banning cannabis and instead respected states' rights, a hallmark of conservatism and the Republican party. The incoming President and his cabinet can reverse this trajectory and enforce federal laws on legal marijuana ventures. They will try to destroy any remnant of legal and medical marijuana that the United States has erected. However, in the absence of strict federal enforcement, states have flourished upon legalization.