Barack Obama has pissed off the stoners again. He always does. In 2009 a question about marijuana legalization made him laugh , a hard to miss sign that he didn’t take the issue seriously. Worse than laughter has been his DEA, and its increasingly heavy-handed war on legal marijuana dispensaries. Now that recreational marijuana has been legalized in Colorado and Washington, his Department of Justice is weighing its options , and, reportedly, none of their options seem to be “just let people smoke their marijuana, because it’s harmless.”
Instead the feds are either looking to have a judge declare the state regulations invalid, or are out to browbeat states into recriminalizing the demon weed by withholding federal money. ( A similar strategy got the drinking age raised to 21 in every state, though it required legislation.)
Andrew Sullivan is not thrilled. There is some talk of “giving them hell."
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