Do You Believe Obama Administration Rejects Medical Marijuana Raids on Dispensers?

WASHINGTON- Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Wednesday partly described an intermission in the enforcement of federal drug laws and pointed that administration would effectively end the Bush administration's narrow-meshed raids on black-marketeers of medical marijuana.

Communicating with reporters, Mr. Holder presented some peculiarities and added that the Justice Department's enforcement policy would now be oriented only to find traffickers who breaks the law and explains their activity as medical dispensaries and "use medical marijuana laws as a defence." There were special federal agents in the Bush administration that were carrying investigations of medical marijuana distributors that infringed federal statutes even if the dispensaries appeared to be satisfying state laws. It was to be expected that the situation will give evidence to numerous complaints. Particularly California in 1996 became the first state to legalize marijuana sales to people with doctors' prescriptions.

According to Mr. Holder's remarks, Graham Boyd, the director of the American Civil Liberties Union drug law project reached the so much important equiponderance between conflicting state and federal laws and "as appeared to be finally end the policy war over medical marijuana." Particularly the Bush administration brought frustration and implanted uncertainty among officials in California and the 12 other states, which was depicted in their hesitation to approve of specification to carry out their laws, after they legalized the use of medical marijuana.

Mr. Holder said the new access was consequential with confirmations made by President Obama in the campaign and was oriented to allocate scarce enforcement resources by means of assessment. He added that dispensaries managing in accordance with California law would not be a subject of the administration interest.

In this way, commenting his statements on, Mr. Holder tried to set the record straight on the policy after some news reports last month allegorized his answer to a reporter's question to be an incomprehensible confirmation that all raids on marijuana manufacturer would disappear. As department officials pointed Mr. Holder was not going to support any policy change last month but was undoubtedly doing so on Wednesday. Ethan Nadelmann, the founder of the Drug Policy Alliance, the following way explained Mr. Holder statement, who said that the Drug Enforcement Administration should shift their attention from legitimate manufacturers of medical marijuana away, while the Bush Justice Department message was 'watch out - that they have the authority to go after everybody. In his first large-scale conversation with reporters as attorney general, Mr. Holder said the Justice Department was still browsing through the case criminal records of general prisoners held at Guant?namo Bay, Cuba, to investigate whether they could be emancipated or would be put through the hoops in a civilian criminal court or some other legal forum. He didn't exclude the fact that some detainees like the Uighurs held in Cuba could be released into the United States.

At the same time the department was having control over developments related to bills of indictment abuse of detainees by the Central Intelligence Agency, but stopped short of endorsing "We will let the law and facts take us to wherever we need to go," he said. According to Mr. Holder the department should be ready to maintain a healthy newspaper industry. If that would assist news organizations elaborate collective distribution systems, he would contemplate methodizing enforcement of antitrust statutes.