Congress included a provision in its newly unveiled budget that will block the Justice Department, including U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, from spending federal dollars on interfering with states’ medical cannabis laws.

The provision, known as the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, states “None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect to any of the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming, or with respect to the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico, to prevent any of them from implementing their own laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.”

The budget bill is expected to pass the week.

Many members of the cannabis industry find this provision to be a relief, as U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has hinted that he wants to crackdown on cannabis.

Sessions issued a warning in February stating, “States, they can pass the laws they choose. I would just say it does remain a violation of federal law to distribute marijuana throughout any place in the United States, whether a state legalizes it or not.”

He has also previously said that “good people don’t smoke marijuana,” as well as cannabis is only “slightly less awful” than heroin. There have been no recorded deaths from cannabis, while heroin killed nearly 13,000 people last year.