A United States Senate panel had a meeting on Tuesday to look into the Obama administration’s reaction to cannabis legalization in an increasing number of states.
“In 2013, the Department of Justice decided to all but abandon the enforcement of federal law relating to the possession, cultivation, and distribution of marijuana in states that were in the process of becoming the only jurisdictions in the world to legalize and regulate all these activities for recreational use,” chairman of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), stated.
That was the steady subject all through the greater part of the hearing. A board stacked with for the most part hostile to legalization witnesses voiced a copious amount of protests with what they see as President Obama’s turning a blind eye to violate the federal government’s drug laws. The first to speak out was Benjamin Wagner, a United States lawyer from California who drove a crackdown against state-lawful medical cannabis dispensaries amid the first term of the Obama organization.
Be that as it may while Wagner has been seen by legalization advocates as a prohibitionist warrior set on closing down medical cannabis organizations, at the meeting he greatly extent argued for the Justice Department’s present arrangement of generally respecting state cannabis policies.
“The federal government and the states traditionally have worked as partners in the field of drug enforcement,” he added. “Changes in state laws relating to marijuana enforcement have affected this environment in some states, but the Department continues to work with its state and local partners to address the major threats posed by drug trafficking, including marijuana cultivation and distribution, and to ensure that our efforts are mutually supportive.”
In addition, Wagner said that the Department of Justice would come up with a publicly available “repository providing data concerning the effects of state marijuana legalization.”
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