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

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — 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.

“I want to make it clear for all of our law enforcement partners and everybody out there that we are, we have been, and will continue to enforce these laws,” Smith said Thursday.

Smith has been implementing the new Justice Department marijuana policy since it came out in late September, he said. His office and the Justice