    [Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 6 (Wednesday, January 10, 2018)]
    [House]
    [Page H96]
    From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                         LET STATES REGULATE MARIJUANA

      (Mr. POLIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1
    minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
      Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, I was gravely concerned last week when
    Attorney General Sessions removed the guidance of the Cole memo
    regarding the way that the Department of Justice treats marijuana in
    jurisdictions where it is legal for medicinal or commercial
    circumstances. I happen to represent one of those States, the State of
    Colorado, which has a regulatory system for marijuana that has now been
    called into jeopardy through a Federal overreach.
      Effectively, Attorney General Sessions has left the entire fate of
    not just the industry and those who work in it but also consumers in my
    State in the hands of 93 U.S. attorneys, including the one for our
    State who, if they wake up on the wrong side of the bed one morning,
    could engage in a mass enforcement action against residents of Colorado
    who are following our State law.
      I call on President Trump to overturn his attorney, and I call upon
    this body to put the appropriate funding restrictions, based on the
    McClintock-Polis amendment, into the final funding bill in the next few
    weeks to prevent the Department of Justice from using funds given to
    them by Congress to contravene State law in jurisdictions that have
    chosen to regulate marijuana.

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