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    Will state or federal pot laws come out on top?

    "No one should have the illusion that legalization is inevitable and permanent," says law professor Robert MacCoun.
    by Stanford Jan 16, 2018 0 minutes

    The doors to recreational pot dispensaries opened in California this month, bringing the number of states that have legalized recreational use of the drug to eight. More than 30 states allow for medical marijuana use.

    But in early January, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded an Obama-era policy that, in effect, allowed state laws regarding marijuana use, for medical and commercial, to trump federal law.

    Will the new move by AG Sessions dampen the burgeoning commercial marijuana industry in individual states? Federal law designates marijuana in the same class as heroin and LSD. So, will residents in states that allow for recreational marijuana use be at risk for criminal prosecution?

    Here, Robert MacCoun, law professor at Stanford University, answers some of these questions.

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