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$MJ - Of the Governors in attendance on Tuesday, only Brown and Hickenlooper represented states where voters had approved measures legalizing marijuana for recreational use.

Trump has said legal marijuana is a states’ rights issue, but his pick to lead the Justice Department, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, has strongly opposed legal weed.

He characterizes it as a “real danger,” which has caused anxiety among supporters of legal marijuana nationwide.

Hickenlooper said he would have liked to see the federal government have more influence back in 2012, when Colorado legalized recreational marijuana, but now that more states are passing similar laws, the federal government should allow the process to continue.

 He said he didn’t expect things to change significantly on that front.

(clip from) Governors of California and other Western states uncertain about life under a Trump administration 12-14-16

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-western-governors-trump-transition-20161212-story.html