The war on drugs is such an
abysmal failure that even the lawmakers who have funded it for decades are drawing a line in the sand.
Multiple bills in Congress have cropped up in recent months aiming to protect medical marijuana and
reschedule cannabis, if not legalize it altogether.
The most recent development comes in the form of Congress' recently unveiled budget, which
allots exactly zero dollars to the Department of Justice to wage medical marijuana crackdowns across the country.
The Rohrabacher-Farr amendment "allows states to carry on with crafting their own medical marijuana policies without fear of federal intervention," the
Huffington Post reported.
The full text of the amendment to the budget bill reads as follows:
None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect to any of the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, or with respect to the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico, to prevent any of them from implementing their own laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.
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