One of the reasons the Democrats lost the November 2016 election was low voter turnout.  As the 2018 midterms approach, Democrats have politicized the recreational marijuana issue as a means of increasing voter turnout, knowing that many in their voter base want the recreational use of marijuana to be legalized.  They put the recreational marijuana issue to a vote in the 2016 California election.  The recreational marijuana use law in California went into effect on January 1, 2018 – just by coincidence, a midterm election year.  And just as the Democrats had hoped, Jeff Sessions, the attorney general of the United States, announced that he has reversed the Obama-era Holder-Lynch policy, called the Cole Memorandum, which generally stated that the federal government will not enforce parts of the Controlled Substances Act.  Sessions has asked U.S. attorneys to begin prosecution of recreational marijuana...(Read Full Article)