More to the point, leave marijuana to the individual states and concentrate on opiates and their deadly analogs, pharmaceuticals and heroin; stopping the bumper crop of cocaine from reaching the US and educating the new generation as to its hazards; and to continue and even expand a crackdown on methamphetamine and synthetic drugs.
Accompany this by putting strong controls on confiscations without any arrest or prosecution (at one point totaling $600b a year, though they are no longer as forthcoming with the annual totals anymore); as well as the use of these funds to “paramilitarize” local police departments, moving them away from direct federal control to requiring that many federal interactions with them must go through their state governments.
In other words, pay attention to the deadly drugs, which is where the money and manpower need to go, and stop wasting a gigantic amount of money on a stupid fight. This is the same logic used in ending alcohol prohibition.
And while he is at it, he needs to divert vast resources to all the other things the Justice Department needs to do, a 50 year backlog. And 8 years of prosecutions of corrupt officials.
Jeff Sessions is the best man for Attorney General, that’s why he’s it.