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Dear Pot Lawyer,

Melissa McCarthy Spicer said there could be a federal crackdown on recreational marijuana! Is this true?

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer says many peculiar things. Regarding marijuana, he recently said, โ€œI do believe that youโ€™ll see greater enforcement.โ€ He also distinguished between recreational and medical marijuana before making a bullshit comparison with opioid addiction.

Weโ€™ll have to wait and see what this means, exactly, but a shift in the executive branchโ€™s marijuana policy creates many complex issues. The most important one? Federal legislators could and should loosen marijuana laws soon.

One week before Spiceyโ€™s statements, Oregonโ€™s Earl Blumenauer and Coloradoโ€™s Jared Polis (both Democrats), with Californiaโ€™s Dana Rohrabacher and Alaskaโ€™s Don Young (both Republicans), officially launched the bipartisan Congressional Cannabis Caucus.