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[Aqizzar]

Well well well.  Score one for maturity and the 10th Amendment.

Finally recognizing that a) 14 states have authorized by ballot initiative the use of marijuana for medical purposes, b) Federal law authorizes no use whatsoever fer that there Devil's Weed, and c) that attempting to reconcile the two with a top-down no-tolerance-whatsoever policy was accomplishing exactly nothing except wasting money and pissing people off, Obama's Justice Department heads have more-or-less made it policy not to hassle marijuana users and sellers where state law makes it legal.

No doubt there will still be plenty of puritan patriot officers who will point out that it's not actually a rule and will continue to enforce whatever they want the law to be, but it's a step in the right direction.

Let me be clear that I'm not advocating smokin' dope, I'm advocating law and policy that acknowledges the real world, it's complexities, and the right and honorable will of state voters.  I'm sure we can all get behind efficient enforcement of democratic laws.

[chaoticag]

For those not in the know about what the tenth amendment is it states:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor porhibited by it to the State, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people

The only parts of the constitution that mention any use of drugs are the Prohibition ammendment (number 18) and the one that repeals it (number 21), and even then it only mentions liquids. Technically, a state can legalize the sale of intoxicating substances, but it is bound to get less federal funding.