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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 The DOJ 'Intended To Discourage' A Historic Medical Marijuana Bill 🌿The DOJ 'Intended To Discourage' A Historic Medical Marijuana Bill
An internal Department of Justice memo leaked this week reveals that in the days leading up to last year's historic passage of a federal medical marijuana protections measure, the DOJ passed around "informal talking points" to members of Congress that were "intended to discourage passage" of the statute due to concerns about overreach -- concerns that would later turn out to be incorrect.
In May 2014, the House passed an appropriations amendment, introduced by Reps. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) and Sam Farr (D-Calif.), that blocked the DOJ from using funds to target state-legal medical marijuana operations. These historic protections for medical marijuana patients and providers were eventually signed into law by President Barack Obama as part of a larger federal budget bill.
This week saw the leak of a February 2015 memo revealing that before last year's House vote, the DOJ was concerned that the proposed amendment could effectively...
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