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This week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions repealed the Cole Memo, which had previously directed the Justice Department not to use federal resources to target states that had passed recreational or medicinal marijuana legislation. On the campaign trail, Trump pledged to continue the policy of the Obama administration on the issue, and expressed hesitance to interfere with the states that have passed individual legislation that contradicts federal marijuana prohibition. Now, a bipartisan backlash has some commentators suggesting that a federal law legalizing marijuana may be at hand. And there is hope: House Resolution 1227, the Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act, would remove marijuana as a Schedule I drug, and end federal prosecution in states that have legalized marijuana. It appears that a new libertarian sentiment, in both parties, is going to provide plenty of pushback for Attorney General Sessions.