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Politico reports:
Trump’s interim U.S. Attorney, Ed Martin, is coming for the capital’s weed, too — and threatening to upend a tacit agreement where federal prosecutors have respected DC’s local marijuana laws. The opening salvo came via a letter from Martin to a D.C. medical-marijuana vendor. “Your dispensary appears to be operating in violation of federal law,” he wrote, “and the Department of Justice has the authority to enforce federal law even when such activities may be permitted” by local laws. So much for the store’s legal license.
A longtime anti-abortion activist who previously represented Jan. 6 defendants, he’s been at the center of constant culture-war controversies ever since Trump made him D.C.’s top federal prosecutor in January. In that short period, Martin has been in the headlines over his numerous appearances on Kremlin propaganda TV, his demotions of prosecutors who handled January 6 cases, his threatening legal letters to Congressional Democrats and his hostile notes to medical journals demanding details about alleged bias.
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Last month Martin made headlines for pretending not to know that a convicted rioter he lavished praised in at least six interviews is a Nazi sympathizer. Also last month, he threatened to revoke Wikipedia’s nonprofit status. Martin’s interim status expires later this month, after which he would require Senate confirmation.
Trump hasn’t messed with legal pot. His lightning-rod US Attorney in DC may have other ideas. If you think DC’s deep-blue electorate should be free to choose blue-state rules for itself, this ought to worry you: https://t.co/t5Wh3hfIqK
— Michael Schaffer (@michaelschaffer) May 2, 2025