Editorial: Feds should allow states to regulate recreational pot

Stay out of it.

That’s the message we have for Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who could single-handedly kill Colorado’s billion-dollar recreational marijuana industry. Disturbing signs have been coming out of the Trump Administration recently, with spokesman Sean Spicer hinting of a possible crackdown, with the feds enforcing federal marijuana laws more vigorously.

Such a crackdown would run counter to candidate Donald Trump’s assertion that the matter should be left to the states.

Under President Obama, the feds took a largely hands-off approach, as long as growers and retailers remained in compliance with state laws.…