Justice Department "Clarifies" Stance on Medical Marijuana: It's Illegal And They Will Arrest You
SF Weekly (US)
Friday, July 1, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
For a few weeks now, medical marijuana activists have been waiting for Attorney General Eric Holder to "re-clarify" exactly what the Justice Department plans to do about state-legal, federally-illegal medical marijuana. In a memo dated June 29, Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole did just that: marijuana is illegal, and the federal government can prosecute any user, any time for growing, selling or transporting it, state law be damned, he wrote.
