U.S Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who less than a year ago stunned the marijuana industry by ripping up Obama-era protections for state-legal MJ businesses, has been forced out by President Trump.
The development could ease industry concerns that the Department of Justice will unleash a crackdown on state-legal marijuana businesses – though much will depend on whom Trump picks as Sessions’ permanent replacement.
Sessions said his resignation came at the president’s request.
Trump announced in a tweet that Matthew Whitaker, a former U.S. attorney in Iowa, will serve as acting attorney general. Whitaker had served as Sessions’ chief of staff.