Obama Must Explain His Broken Promise on Medical Marijuana

This week’s news that support for the legalization of marijuana has reached a record high of 50% ought to bother Obama’s re-election team a little bit. No, not because pot’s more popular than the president, although that really says a lot. The problem, rather, is that Obama’s heavily publicized and widely praised promise to respect state medical marijuana laws has recently been shattered into more pieces than the campaign can count.

In only a few short months, the Obama administration has presided over a vicious series of political assaults on medical marijuana patients and providers across the nation, carried out by numerous federal agencies. The situation just continues to get more ugly and insane from one week to the next:

Federal prosecutors have threatened to arrest state employees for administering state laws, resulting in stalled programs and reduced patient access.
U.S. Attorneys in California recently revived the Bush era tactic of threatening to seize property from landlords who rent to medical marijuana facilities.

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