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Editorial: Thank you, Jeff Sessions, for inadvertently kickstarting Congress' effort to legalize marijuana

Good job, Jeff Sessions! It seems the attorney general's misguided attempts to revive the unpopular and unjust federal war on marijuana may be having the exact opposite effect - prompting a new bipartisan effort in Congress to allow states to legalize cannabis.

Last week Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) introduced a bill

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