By Steph Sherer | The Huffington Post
Last Thursday, Deputy Attorney General James Cole issued a long-awaited memo laying out the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) policy on state marijuana laws. At my office at Americans for Safe Access, we were all experiencing a kind of déjà-vu as the emails started flooding in. However, our excitement began to diminish as we read through the details.
As a medical cannabis advocate, I started 2009 with Obama’s “Hope” in my veins. The Obama’s administration made supportive statements from the beginning, including that the President was “not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws.” And in October 2009, medical cannabis advocates got the policy document we had been waiting for, with a memo issued to U.S. Attorneys by then-Deputy Attorney General David Ogden:
If you’d like to discuss medical marijuana, contact Ryan Hurley, director of the Rose Law Group Medical Marijuana Dept. rhurley@roselawgroup.com
