{"id":20619,"date":"2017-10-27T04:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/27\/ag-jeff-sessions-demurs-on-federal-marijuana-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2017-10-27T12:51:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T20:51:31","slug":"ag-jeff-sessions-demurs-on-federal-marijuana-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/27\/ag-jeff-sessions-demurs-on-federal-marijuana-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"AG Jeff Sessions demurs on federal marijuana crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/10\/26\/hugh-hewitt-marijuana-jeff-sessions-prosecution\/90962\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declined to say whether the Department of Justice is planning<\/a> any sort of cannabis crackdown or prosecution of state-licensed marijuana businesses and instead left open the door for future federal law enforcement actions against the MJ industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t comment on the existence of an investigation at this time,\u201d Sessions told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, The Cannabist reported.<\/p>\n<p>Hewitt had suggested that the DOJ could prosecute marijuana companies under federal racketeering statutes, which could conceivably start a domino effect and close down the entire industry.<\/p>\n<p>Sessions, however, said he<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/sessions-demurs-federal-cannabis-crackdown\/\">AG Jeff Sessions demurs on federal marijuana crackdown<\/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\/sessions-demurs-federal-cannabis-crackdown\/\" target=\"_blank\">AG Jeff Sessions demurs on federal marijuana crackdown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday declined to say whether the Department of Justice is planning any sort of cannabis crackdown or prosecution of state-licensed marijuana businesses and instead left open the door for future federal law enforcement actions against the MJ industry. \u201cI can\u2019t comment on the existence<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/27\/ag-jeff-sessions-demurs-on-federal-marijuana-crackdown\/\">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":[4,861,10,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619"}],"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=20619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20620,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619\/revisions\/20620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}