October 22, 2009
This week, the Justice Department kept a
promise made by candidate Barack Obama when it announced that
henceforth, "it will not be a priority to use federal resources
to prosecute patients with serious illnesses or their caregivers
who are complying with state laws on medical marijuana." As Steve
Chapman writes, the change is not only historic but humane and
intelligent, two adjectives rarely applied to federal drug
policy.
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