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O'Bama lightens up a bit. .
finance.yahoo.com/news/AP-N...07182.html
By Devlin Barrett, Associated Press Writer
The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under new policy guidelines to be sent to federal prosecutors Monday.
Two Justice Department officials described the new policy to The Associated Press, saying prosecutors will be told it is not a good use of their time to arrest people who use or provide medical marijuana in strict compliance with state laws.
The new policy is a significant departure from the Bush administration, which insisted it would continue to enforce federal anti-pot laws regardless of state codes.
Fourteen states allow some use of marijuana for medical purposes: Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.
. . .an excerpt. .
finance.yahoo.com/news/AP-N...07182.html
By Devlin Barrett, Associated Press Writer
The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under new policy guidelines to be sent to federal prosecutors Monday.
Two Justice Department officials described the new policy to The Associated Press, saying prosecutors will be told it is not a good use of their time to arrest people who use or provide medical marijuana in strict compliance with state laws.
The new policy is a significant departure from the Bush administration, which insisted it would continue to enforce federal anti-pot laws regardless of state codes.
Fourteen states allow some use of marijuana for medical purposes: Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.
. . .an excerpt. .
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Re: Medical Marijuana Update. .
Mon, October 19, 2009 - 5:34 AMNJ is talking about it but only in the strictest of sense. The NJ legislature wants to limit it to death prognosis cancer victims
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Re: Medical Marijuana Update. .
Mon, October 19, 2009 - 9:58 PM
I'm pretty fed up with funding this idiotic portion of the Drug War. It just isn't worth it. -
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Re: Medical Marijuana Update. .
Mon, October 19, 2009 - 11:15 PMthe best campaign for legalization is to keep hammering over and over the expense of the drug war and the huge cost of incarceration. . -
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Mon, October 19, 2009 - 11:28 PM>>the best campaign for legalization is to keep hammering over and over the expense of the drug war and the huge cost of incarceration. <<
as opposed to braying over the antics of a few dozen tea-baggers in Halifax.
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