Eric Holder Renews Commitment to Drug Policy Change
March 23, 2009 at 2:14 pm Leave a comment
On Thursday, US Attourney General Eric Holder explicitly stated the Obama administration’s new stance on medicinal marijuana. While his earlier comment left some room for ambiguity, the new statement makes the chance in policy unequivocal:
“The policy is to go after those people who violate both federal and state law, to the extent that people do that and try to use medical marijuana laws as a shield for activity that is not designed to comport with what the intention was of the state law. Those are the organizations, the people, that we will target. And that is consistent with what the president said during the campaign.”
For the time being, this will allow states to effect their own medicinal marijuana laws properly. However, because this is strictly a policy of the Obama administration, the goal of lifting the federal ban on medicinal marijuana remains important because future administrations could reverse this policy. Still, this policy change will facilitate the legislative change that needs to follow. This is a very important step in the quest for drug policy reform.
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