The late-night hosts took aim at Jeff Sessions for the Attorney Generals renewed war on marijuana, with Stephen Colbert among those criticizing Sessions plan to turn states decision to legalize pot into a federal issue.
Weve got some bad news for the people who partake of the sweet, sweet green stuff of course Im talking about the money states are making off of legal marijuana, Colbert said. Because today their buzz was shackled by Attorney General and gnome on your blacklight poster whos gonna narc on you Jeff Sessions.
On Thursday, Sessions announced plans to roll back an Obama-era policy that paved the way for legalized marijuana to flourish, with critics blasting Sessions decision as racist.
This new directive from Sessions must mean only one thing: He still doesnt know that white people smoke pot too. We cant expose our delicate young ladies to the jazzmans reefer stick,' Colbert said.
The Late Show host added that the governments in states where pot is legal have pushed back against Sessions decision Wait a second, pot just got recriminalized and smokers are less paranoid, Colbert wondered while other politicians, like Bernie Sanders, argued that marijuana is not heroin, which suggests that Sessions should be focusing on the opioid epidemic in America and not going after legalized marijuana.
Jimmy Kimmel also attacked Sessions decision to rescind the Cole Memo. The host posited a conspiracy theory that the Attorney Generals shift comes as a means to screw over the impending sale of Girl Scout Cookies: