New York Daily News

Let states weed things out: Prez

- Chris Sommerfeld­t

PRESIDENT TRUMP is going green — and Attorney General Jeff Sessions is probably seeing red.

Trump announced that he will back congressio­nal efforts to protect states’ rights to legalize marijuana, according to a Republican senator.

Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner said Trump pledged over the phone that a memo Sessions issued last year won’t affect his home state. The memo sought to reverse Obama-era policies on recreation­al pot and hinted at a federal crackdown.

“I received a commitment from the President that the Department of Justice’s rescission of the Cole memo will not impact Colorado’s legal marijuana industry,” Gardner said in a statement Friday. “Furthermor­e, President Trump has assured me that he will support a federalism-based legislativ­e solution to fix this states’ rights issue once and for all.”

Sessions, a fierce opponent of legalizati­on, did not react publicly to the developmen­t, but a source told the Daily News he was not consulted.

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