Our friends at MJBizDaily.com have done an exhaustive study on the possible effects the Trump administration might have on the future of the cannabis industry, aka “How Trump Will Affect the $5 Billion Medical Marijuana and Recreational Cannabis Industries.” In the course of putting this together, they interviewed dozens of top industry executives and lawmakers. Multiple possible scenarios are presented in the 88-page report, but in the end they feel it will be business as usual.
Cannabis industry investors and employees were horrified to see Jeff Sessions nominated to be Attorney General and well they should be. Just last year he was quoted as saying, “Good people don’t smoke marijuana.”
I guess he means that the 71 percent who voted for medical marijuana in Florida and the 57 percent who passed our own Prop 64 are not “good people.” Well that kind of attitude might fly in the backwoods of Alabama where Sessions is from, but it doesn’t in the rest of the U.S. any more. Medical marijuana is favored by 80-90 percent of the population, and even recreational legalization is polling better than his boss Trump.