From Patients for Full Legalization:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

Obama/FEDs Cave to Patient Pressure on Safe Access!

Thursday, June 2, 2011 at 11:59PM

In a monumentally historic move made by the Obama Administration via comments from Attorney General Eric Holder, the Feds announced today that they would begin to work with Governors and State lawmakers in seeking a legal compromise that allows for State-sponsored medical cannabis dispensaries to be legal on the Federal level. Holder's comments were brief and somewhat vague, but certainly hugely beneficial news for patients and safe access. Some confusion whether all dispensaries in a state with legalized medical cannabis would be tolerated, or whether only dispensaries in medical cannabis states with specific licensing / authorization provisions for dispensaries in their laws would be acceptable. Or perhaps even only State Owned facilities would allowed, or some other such condition, what's clear however is that the the old line of zero tolerance and oppressive mass raids completely flying in the face of public will are set to give way to serious negotiation and debate!

More at link:

http://www.patientsforfulllegalization.org/news/2011/6/2/obamafeds-cave-to-patient-pressure-on-safe-access.html

[Romulox]

1. Hardly credible on the heels of the broken promise to stop prosecuting those in compliance with

state law.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I understand your skepticism...

And indeed, I share it.

But this is now their stated position.

Unless their actions prove otherwise, I choose to believe it.

[WingDinger]

3. wOW, this is hugh granted. Popular move. Step by step,

[woofless]

4. Fingers crossed.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Mine too!

Well, except when I'm typing...:hi:

[nosmokes]

6. I'll believe it when they stop trying to pry the bud from my cold dead hands...

[stevedeshazer]

7. I'll join the chorus of the cautiously optimistic.

It should have happened a long time ago, but better late than never. At least the administration dares to say it, no previous administration has.

:hi:

[me b zola]

8. I often think

that so many people who need medical cannabis can't get it because they don't have access to a doctor. When I first began to see a doctor when my symptoms appeared, it was at a free clinic and the doctor's notes where so incomplete and straight out bad that i couldn't get my medical mj license. I got "lucky"--because i am so sick--and hit the Oregon lottery(for health care) and was allowed to be pushed forward on the list of people applying for the oregon health plan. I know how "lucky" I was, but often think of the people with no access.

[7wo7rees]

9. +1