Among the 18-24 black t-shirt wearing crowd. These new guidelinescould add billions to the cost of health care reform:
Federal drug agents won’t pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued Monday by the Obama administration. Two Justice Department officials described the new policy to The Associated Press, saying prosecutors will be told it is not a good use of their time to arrest people who use or provide medical marijuana in strict compliance with state law.
It’s hardly full legalization, but the Obama administration is taking one tiny step in the right direction. One must give credit where credit is due.