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US: Obama To Rolling Stone: We're Not Going To Legalize Weed Anytime Soon

Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director

Hawaii Daily News

Wednesday 25 Apr 2012

President Obama clarified his position on medical marijuana in an interview with Rolling Stone, telling publisher Jann Wenner that he can't "nullify congressional law."

"What I specifically said was that we were not going to prioritize prosecutions of persons who are using medical marijuana. I never made a commitment that somehow we were going to give carte blanche to large-scale producers and operators of marijuana – and the reason is, because it's against federal law. I can't nullify congressional law," Obama said.

"I can't ask the Justice Department to say, 'Ignore completely a federal law that's on the books." What I can say is, "Use your prosecutorial discretion and properly prioritize your resources to go after things that are really doing folks damage." As a consequence, there haven't been prosecutions of users of marijuana for medical purposes," Obama said.

Obama also said in a late night TV appearance Tuesday on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, that he didn't expect Congress to change that law: "We're not going to be legalizing weed … anytime soon."

http://cannabis.hawaiinewsdaily.com/2012/04/25/obama-to-rolling-stone-were-not-going-to-legalize-weed-anytime-soon/

 

 

 

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