Lawmakers in states that have legalized marijuana denounced a move by the Trump administration on Thursday to cancel a policy that kept federal prosecutors at bay from the fledgling cannabis industries and vowed to uphold their state laws.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Justice Department was rescinding an Obama-era policy that eased enforcement of federal marijuana laws amid a wave of legalization in states from Pennsylvania to Alaska. The shift came just three days after California launched the world’s largest regulated commercial market for recreational marijuana.

State officials said the move amounted to meddling in states’ affairs and ignored more pressing priorities like the opioid crisis. Read More…