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Trump Administration Targets Recreational Pot, Placing thousands Of Marijuana businesses in California at risk

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Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions recently put an abrupt end to an Obama-era policy that provided legal shelter for marijuana sales in California and five other states that have allowed recreational pot, placing at risk thousands of marijuana businesses operating legally under state laws.

The risky move by the  Justice Department on Thursday plummeted California’s fledgling recreational pot market into further uncertainty, and was met with backlash from lawmakers in states where recreational marijuana is sold legally to any adult who justly wants to purchase it. 

“It is the mission of the Department of Justice to enforce the laws of the United States,”

Sessions said in a statement, which added that the Obama-era policy that directed federal prosecutors not to target state marijuana businesses “undermines the rule of law and the ability of our local, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement partners to carry out this mission.”

Wolff’s Trump Book Going On Sale Four Days Early Amid Uproar

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CNN- The publisher of Michael Wolff’s new book about President Trump is rushing it onto bookshelves.

“Due to unprecedented demand, we are moving the on-sale date for all formats of ‘Fire and Fury,’ by Michael Wolff, to Friday, January 5, at 9 a.m. ET, from the current on-sale date of Tuesday, January 9,”

a Henry Holt spokeswoman told CNN Thursday afternoon.

On Thursday booksellers were notified of the decision. 

The move came hours after a personal attorney for President Trump sent a cease-and-desist letter to Henry Holt and Wolff demanding that the book not be released.

Instead, the publisher is doing the opposite. Wolff’s TV book tour has also been moved up. He was originally going to appear on NBC’s “Today” show next Monday. Now he’ll be on “Today” this morning.

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