As bans on smoking grow stronger in the United States, laws prohibiting marijuana are easing up. Cannabis-related prosecution has been ordered to stop by federal prosecutors in the 13 states where the medical use of the drug is not illegal.
It is wrong to prosecute those people who comply to state existing state laws, according to Attorney General Eric Holder.
However, the air is not completely clear he warns, those using medical marijuana laws as an alibi to traffic the drug are still going to be subject to prosecution.
This is a very sharp shift in policy in relation to that of the Bush administration, and is all a bit ironic because smokers are now seeing the same tyranny that medical marijuana user once had to face, and the question has to be asked - will smoking bans be dropped in a few decades? Will all the money that has been spent on implementing these laws proven to be a waste?
[Via: BBC]
