"The previous issuance of guidance undermines the rule of law and the ability of our local, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement partners to carry out this mission," Sessions wrote in a memo. "Today's memo on federal marijuana enforcement simply directs all US Attorneys to use previously established prosecutorial principles that provide them all the necessary tools to disrupt criminal organizations, tackle the growing drug crisis and thwart violent crime across our country."
Though Sessions may hope to go back to the time when users were locked away in jail for possessing even the smallest bits of the drug, Lindsay Robinson says the 71-year-old lawyer is simply "out of touch" with Americans.
In first place position for the country with the most people sitting in prison cells is none other than the US with 2,193,798, the BBC reported. The Land of the Free's prison rates are the highest in the world, with more than 700 people imprisoned per 100,000 as of 2013. That number can only be expected to increase if law enforcement bodies, at the urging of the Department of Justice, begin to again aggressively pursue minor marijuana users, despite public opinion.