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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mead Gruver and Matthew Brown

US prosecutor in Wyoming promises crackdown on pot in national parks and on other public lands

Marijuana Public Lands - (Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Getting high around a campfire in a national park, especially in Wyoming, is likelier to get you prosecuted under a new Justice Department policy cracking down on minor marijuana offenses on federal land.

The new guidance for marijuana on federal land reverses a policy from the end of Joe Biden's presidency that “significantly curtailed” federal prosecution of misdemeanor marijuana offenses, according to U.S. Attorney for Wyoming Darin Smith.

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