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Department Of Justice (Again) Stubs Out Progress For Medical Marijuana

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 08/18/2015 - 08:45

Hilary Bricken

The Department of Justice has yet again graced us with another memo regarding how U.S. attorneys should argue against and prosecute medical marijuana criminal defendants. More specifically, the DOJ is making clear it does not view the 2014 Cromnibus as stopping federal criminal prosecutions for medical marijuana activity legal under state laws.  The DOJ authored this particular memo back in February, but it was just released to the public this month.

As a reminder, the medical marijuana industry rejoiced when President Obama signed into law the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2015, whose Section 538 states as follows:

None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect to the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, [and every other medical marijuana state], to prevent such States from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession,

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