Feds Approve Truce in War on Medical Marijuana
Earlier today, Congress passed a $1.1 trillion dollar spending bill, and in the process it approved a provision promising to keep federal law enforcement’s hands off of state-legal medical marijuana operations.
How big of a deal is this? Media interpretations are mixed.
In the L.A. Times, reporter Evan Halper says the provision “effectively ends the federal government’s prohibition on medical marijuana and signals a major shift in drug policy.” Halper quotes Bill Piper, a lobbyist with the Drug Policy Alliance, who boldly declares, “The war on medical marijuana is over.”
But as previously reported, the provision, known as the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, was first approved in December of last year. This rider bans the use of Department of Justice funds to enforce federal drug laws in states that have legalized medical weed.
Amendment co-author Sam Farr, a Democrat representing California’s Central Coast, posted the following message about the...
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