{"id":20101,"date":"2017-10-11T04:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/11\/obama-era-attorney-general-blasts-jeff-sessions-over-cannabis-views\/"},"modified":"2017-10-11T12:46:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T20:46:52","slug":"obama-era-attorney-general-blasts-jeff-sessions-over-cannabis-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/11\/obama-era-attorney-general-blasts-jeff-sessions-over-cannabis-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama-era attorney general blasts Jeff Sessions over cannabis views"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. attorney general under President Barack Obama laid into the nation\u2019s current top law enforcement official and said that current AG Jeff Sessions has an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/eric-holder-jeff-sessions-has-an-almost-obsession-with-marijuana\/article\/2637037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201calmost obsession with marijuana.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eric Holder \u2013 who served as U.S. attorney general from 2009 to 2015 \u2013 said during a speech at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York that, under his watch, the Department of Justice was correct to issue the <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/the-famous-marijuana-memos-qa-with-former-doj-deputy-attorney-general-james-cole\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2013 Cole Memo<\/a> and let states take the lead on regulating the cannabis industry, the Washington Examiner reported.<\/p>\n<p>But Holder critiqued Sessions in<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/obama-era-attorney-general-blasts-jeff-sessions-cannabis-views\/\">Obama-era attorney general blasts Jeff Sessions over cannabis views<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\">Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal &amp; Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/obama-era-attorney-general-blasts-jeff-sessions-cannabis-views\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obama-era attorney general blasts Jeff Sessions over cannabis views<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. attorney general under President Barack Obama laid into the nation\u2019s current top law enforcement official and said that current AG Jeff Sessions has an\u00a0\u201calmost obsession with marijuana.\u201d Eric Holder \u2013 who served as U.S. attorney general from 2009 to 2015 \u2013 said during a speech at the John<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/11\/obama-era-attorney-general-blasts-jeff-sessions-over-cannabis-views\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,861,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20102,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20101\/revisions\/20102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}