Will Obama End the Medical Marijuana Raids?
11/06/2008 – 11:01pm
When Barack Obama enters the White House in January, will he make good on his promise to end federal interference with state medical marijuana laws? Reformers have not easily forgotten the broken promise of George Bush, who spoke of “state’s rights” regarding medical marijuana on the campaign trail only to subsequently declare war on patients and providers in states that protect medical use.
While the terms of engagement between DEA and the medical marijuana community under an Obama administration won’t be fleshed out for many months, I’d like to remind everyone what exactly we’ve been told to expect. This is the Obama campaign’s response to emails about medical marijuana:
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle_blog/2008/nov/06/will_obama_end_the_medical_marij
