US Attorney: No More Marijuana Raids Options

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A local lawmaker is promoting the idea of legalizing marijuana as the answer to the state's money problems. This comes after DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart, and reiterating a position made by the White House following DEA raids in California. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters that ending federal raids on medical marijuana dispensaries is now American policy.

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I guess they finally figured out that legalizing marijuana at least for medicine will bring in more income than making it illegal, arresting people, and making us pay with our tax dollars.

[emberfly]

I like the idea of getting a license to drink. (sorry, this has absolutely nothing to do with the topic, but it was on 60 Minutes and I wanted to talk about it ).

I think marijuana should be legalized. I'm not sure how it would make the government any money, though, unless they started selling it? I wish they did start selling it; it would be way more useful than selling cigarettes... atleast marijuana makes you uberly creative and create awesomeness... or just relax your muscles.

I wiki'd Marijuana, and I couldn't find any drawbacks (other than it's illegal).. does it give you diseases like cigarettes do? Wiki failed to mention any of that, so at least I googled before I asked :O