States mull 'sanctuary' status for marijuana businesses

States mull 'sanctuary' status for marijuana businesses

Just hours after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Jan. 4 that federal prosecutors would be free to crack down on marijuana operations as they see fit, Jesse Arreguin, the mayor in Berkeley, California, summoned city councilman Ben Bartlett to his office with a novel idea. Berkeley was already the first city in the nation to formally declare itself a sanctuary city on immigration, barring city officials from cooperating with federal authorities. Why not do the same thing with marijuana? Last month, it did. "We knew we had to do something," Bartlett said. "This is a new engine of a healthy economy."

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