Tell us about your life, jo ella.
Your age, your schooling, what kind of a family you come from, what (if anything) you do for a living, etc.
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And yet, back when he was running for president in 2008, Obama insisted that medical marijuana was an issue best left to state and local governments. "I'm not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue," he vowed, promising an end to the Bush administration's high-profile raids on providers of medical pot, which is legal in 16 states and the District of Columbia.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/obamas-war-on-pot-20120216#ixzz1uJw8m4HU
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When it comes to this, and just about everything else given how Obama has been walking around in the Bush-Cheney 'Unitary Executive-I-Don't-Answer-To-Nobody'-shoes, the president does have the power, which was bestowed on him by Congress.
The relevant section of the Controlled Substance Act specifically gives the president (through the attorney general) the power to implement a process to reschedule cannabis administratively.
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Recreational marijuana would still be treated as a schedule I drug.
What we're talking about is medical marijuana, as a schedule III drug. THC, the active psychotropic ingredient in marijuana, already is classified as schedule III.
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It actually is that simple. AG Holder agrees.
An equivalent way of thinking about it might be when the Supreme Court decided Roe vs. Wade. States had all kinds of different criminal laws on their books regarding abortion. All of those laws just ceased to be enforceable, no repeals were necessary, as soon as Roe vs. Wade decision came down.
And now, should Roe be overturned, those same criminal laws from 40 years ago, still in place, would be the laws governing abortion.
Should marijuana be reclassified as schedule III, the regulations for schedule III drugs would govern medical marijuana.
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I suggest that Obama, Holder and I know the same thing: The law.
Attorney General Eric Holder was a guest of The Huffington Post at the correspondents' dinner. Before it began, a HuffPost reporter noted to Holder that Obama's reference to "congressional law" was misleading because the executive branch could simply remove marijuana from its "schedule one" designation, thereby recognizing its medical use.
"That's right," Holder said.
With all due respect, DOMA is not an equivalent comparison; what Obama did on DOMA was have his solicitor general stop defending it in court.
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