good news. hopefully the administration recognizes that more people voted to implement medical marijuana in CA in 1996 than voted for Bill Clinton - and, of course, not threatening state employees is also the right thing to do.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/04/justice-department-state-employees-can-implement-medical-marijuana-programs/The Department of Justice filed on legal brief on Monday that indicated the federal government would not prosecute state employees for implementing state medical marijuana programs, according to the Marijuana Policy Project.
The brief asks for a lawsuit filed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) to be thrown out.
The governors of Arizona, Rhode Island and Washington have refused to implement medical marijuana laws because they fear criminal prosecution by U.S. Attorneys.
"The State of Arizona has worked to follow the wishes of voters,” Brewer said in May after putting the state's medical marijuana program on hold and filing a lawsuit against the federal government.The administration seemed to want to hinder implementation of the law - and rightly received criticism.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-morgan/obama-medical-marijuana_b_857852.htmlIt's a sweeping intervention that instantly divorces the Obama Administration from its stated policy of not focusing resources on individuals who are clearly compliant with state law. Unlike the numerous recent dispensary raids, which could theoretically result from competing interpretations of state law, this new incursion constitutes a direct threat of arrest against state employees acting in good faith to administer perfectly lawful state programs.
The mindlessness of all this operates on multiple levels, beginning with the fact that no state employee or state-licensed business has ever actually been prosecuted for involvement with medical marijuana. The suggestion that they'd do such a thing is nothing more than a cynical scare tactic aimed at stalling the numerous state programs moving forward this year.So, kudos for reversing this bad policy.
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