Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo rolling back the Obama-era rule that allowed the recreational marijuana industry to flourish. That policy kept feds from cracking down on pot trade in states where it's legal. Cannabis Now's Associate Editor Greg Zeman and The Hill Correspondent Reid Wilson explains how companies in the marijuana market are responding.
"They are concerned about their own future," said Wilson. "It's injected a lot of uncertainty into a market that was poised to double by the end of the decade."
Earlier this week recreational marijuana became legal in the state of California. "The notion that we lost some kind of lynchpin from legalization is somewhat overstated," said Zeman on Sessions memo.
Chuck Rocha, a senior advisor to Sen. Sanders, told Cheddar that the impeachment of President Trump will likely come up, but he expects his candidate to stay focused on other issues.
Rep. Maxine Waters, an early critic of President Trump, dismissed Republican objections to the impeachment process.
The Senate Majority Leader decried the Democratically-controlled House of Representatives vote on impeaching the president.
Ash Carter, former secretary of defense under President Obama, expressed his concerns for the nation's standing among its allies and adversaries under the Trump administration.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Thursday, December 19, 2019.
The House of Representatives has voted to impeach the 45th president of the United States almost entirely on partisan lines.
We at Cheddar decided to take a look at a few of the president's most popular pronouncements on the platform this year.
The vote on the rules for the debate passed 228 to 197, signaling that few lawmakers plan to defect parties, and now representatives will move to those six hours of debate about the articles, themselves.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Wednesday, December 18, 2019.
Lizzie Post, author of "Higher Etiquette" talked to Cheddar about minding one's manners around marijuana during the holidays.
