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mayor, you said today that the police department in your city in seattle will not participate in any enforcement action related to legal businesses or small personal possession of marijuana by adults. do you see yourself as essentially picking a fight with the justice department? picking a fight with the federal government on that? do you expect backlash from that decision today? you know, i would normally say no but with this department of justice and the president, i think we have to assume there will be a backlash. we have staked out the position on immigration to make sure that we re true sanctuary city and they have already told us to deny the funding. we will have to fight that. but we ll protect our legal businesses. but we can also protect public safetyality t safety at the same time and focus on violence, on kids and have an approach that really is holist wick a public health harm reduction model for the war on drugs so i hope we don t have the backlash but, you know, i te
Balance. it is shown that it s done away with a lot of the black market. it s helped many, many patients who are facing just debilitating illnesses and it s been embraced by a majority of the states. what do you think will happen with attorney general jeff sessions changing this federal guidance now? what do you think the impact will be? you know, i think it s going to be a series of battles, unfortunately, again. i think it s very telling that they did not try to get a court to issue an injunction or to say that states were preempted because i think they would lose that legal battle. and i also know from being u.s. attorney, you don t have the resources to put legal marijuana out of business, and nor shoe try. i mean, if you look across this country, every day people are dying because of the opioid crisis. that s where the federal interest should be, that s where jeff sessions should be focusing his interests. and i think that mayors and governors know that because we see it on th
Participate in any enforcement action related to legal businesses or small personal possession of marijuana by adults. do you see yourself as essentially picking a fight with the justice department? picking a fight with the federal government on that? do you expect backlash from that decision today? you know, i would normally say no but with this department of justice and this president, i think we have to assume there will be a backlash. we have staked out the position on immigration to make sure that we re true sanctuary city and they have already told us to they will deny the funding. we will have to fight that. but we ll protect our legal businesses. but we can also protect public safety at the same time and folks on large criminal organizations, on violence, on kids and have an approach that s really holistic and have a public health harm reduction model for this war on drugs. i hope we don t have the backlash, but i ll tell you, we re ready for it. jenny durkin, former u.s. a