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Renewed Riders Bar Medical Marijuana Meddling, Block Full Legalization in D.C.

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 12/17/2015 - 09:14

As in 2014, the omnibus spending pill includes pro-pot and anti-pot amendments.

As expected, this year's omnibus spending bill extends a provision that bars the Justice Department (which includes the Drug Enforcement Administration) from interfering with the implementation of state medical marijuana laws. The bill also includes a rider aimed at preventing federal interference with the cultivation of commercial hemp in states that allow it. At the same time, the bill renews the congressional ban on commercial marijuana regulation in Washington, D.C.

The medical marijuana rider, Section 542, says the DOJ may not spend money "to prevent [states, D.C., Guam, or Puerto Rico] from implementing their own laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana." Before Congress approved that language last year, the DOJ warned that it would wreak havoc with marijuana prosecutions across the country. But after the rider was enacted, the department suddenly decided it had...

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