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    California's pot world sees 'reefer madness' in Session's assault on legal marijuana

    by Emily Alpert Reyes, Angel Jennings and Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times Jan 05, 2018 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - For the steady stream of customers waiting to see a "budtender" Thursday at a Southern California pot store, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' broadside against recreational pot was more a bummer than a buzzkill.

    People were annoyed - but not terribly surprised that California, once again, would be going to battle in the cultural wars with the Trump administration.

    "This is an attempt to take us back to the '50s, where you're a criminal if you use," said Craig Burns, 66, who came up from Laguna Beach to buy pot at 420 Central dispensary in Santa Ana.

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