The New York Times
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A bold stride in the popular campaign to legalize marijuana — an amendment blocking federal interference with states that allow medical marijuana — has been written into the bipartisan budget spending bill that’s now being rushed through Congress. At the same time, this clear victory for the pro-marijuana movement nationally has been coupled with Congress’s outrageous rebuff of the will of District of Columbia residents, who voted overwhelmingly last month to join the growing state move to legalize small amounts of recreational marijuana.
Comments by Rose Law Group Partner Ryan Hurley:
“While it is encouraging Congress appears to be finally respecting the rights of medical marijuana patients and their providers, it is confusing and disheartening they would block the implementation of a law that over 70% of D.C. voters supported. When will Congress understand they work for the people and not the other way around.”
