Former Jets defensive end Marvin Washington is now tackling Attorney General Jeff Sessions– suing the head of the U.S. Department of Justice to decriminalize marijuana.
Washington is one of five plaintiffs in a new Manhattan federal lawsuit against Sessions, the DOJ and the Drug Enforcement Agency.
The suit challenges the constitutionality of the 1970 Controlled Substance Act that classifies marijuana as a dangerous substance, in the same category as heroin or LSD.
“Classifying cannabis as a “Schedule I drug,” is so irrational that it violates the U.S. Constitution,” the suit says. Meth and cocaine are schedule II drugs and thus considered more benign than marijuana under the law.