President Trump will replace the nation’s top anti-drug official Sunday, when Chuck Rosenberg steps down after more than two years leading the Drug Enforcement Administration, and marijuana partisans are anxiously awaiting his pick.
It’s unclear who Trump will make acting administrator, or if that person will be a placeholder or a long-serving acting administrator like Rosenberg and his predecessor Michele Leonhart, who went three years without Senate confirmation.
What is clear: The appointee will lead a nearly 11,000-person agency at a pivotal moment, with anti-marijuana Attorney General Jeff Sessions reviewing the Obama administration’s 2013 Cole Memo that allowed states to regulate recreational pot in violation of federal law.
Trump said during the 2016 campaign that he supports legal access to medical marijuanaand state autonomy for recreational pot, despite his doubts about legalization. But as president, Trump has been silent amid repeated denunciations from Sessions. – READ MORE
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