Jefferson Beauregard Sessions' decision to crack down on states whose voters have authorized the medical or recreational use of marijuana is draconian, mindless, and undercuts a bipartisan consensus that state laws reflecting the will of the people should be respected.
The costs of pursuing this misguided policy are staggering, both in terms of prosecution and in lives blighted by unnecessary criminal convictions. It is cruel, and it is unwarranted.
As Justice Louis Brandeis wisely said years ago, "a state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory, and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." Not long ago, the Attorney General suggested that he would respect states' place as laboratories of democracy:
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