Alabama Senator and Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Alabama Senator and Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Local weed advocacy group DCMJ is organizing a series of demonstrations to protest President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general—Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions.

Dubbed “Smoke Sessions,” the protests are focusing on the senator’s steadfast opposition to legalized marijuana.

“Good people don’t smoke marijuana,” Sessions said at an April hearing on narcotics. “We need grown-ups in charge in Washington saying marijuana is not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized, it ought to be minimized, that it is in fact a very real danger.”

Three decades ago, when the Senate denied him a federal judgeship over racist remarks, it emerged that he joked that the Ku Klux Klan members were okay until he learned they smoked pot.

“We’re saying, we don’t want this guy, and if he is going to be the guy he’s got to clarify his positions,” says Adam Eidinger, co-founder of DCMJ and an organizer of “Smoke Sessions.” “But really, we don’t want him. This is just an unacceptable pick.”

In addition to his stances on drug prohibition, Sessions has also fought against voting rights, hate crime protections, legal immigration, school equity, criminal justice reform, and more.

While marijuana legalization and medical cannabis won big on Election Night, the specter of Sessions as the nation’s top law enforcement official has advocates worried about a crackdown. The situation could be particularly dire in D.C., where Capitol Hill already meddles with marijuana policy.

“Is this guy gonna roll back the clock?” says Eidinger. “Is he going to march the DEA into Washington D.C. and raid a thousand homes for growing marijuana?” While one goal is to block Sessions as AG, another is to get the forthcoming Trump administration to clarify its federal marijuana policy.

The first Smoke Sessions begins next Monday at “high noon” at the senator’s congressional office in the Russell Building. “It’s sort of a protest, but it’s really a Hill visit—a classic, theatrical Hill visit,” says Eidinger.

He’s tight-lipped about what, precisely, that will entail, though he says it will not involve colonial clothing or the giant inflatable joint. “I don’t think we could bring 51-foot joint into Senator Sessions’ office,” Eidinger says. He declined to say if the protesters would smoke or otherwise use cannabis on site.

“In response to Senator Sessions saying that good people don’t smoke marijuana, we agree,” he says. “Great people smoke marijuana.”

Other “Smoke Sessions” are slated for a Republican National Committee holiday party, greeting staffers at Union Station in early January, the Senate Judiciary confirmation hearing, and the inauguration.