Well, so much for the DOJ guidelines that says Indian Reservations may grow cannabis. Seems like all these pronouncements from Obama's DOJ regarding cannabis are being ignored on a case-by-case basis.
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As of this week (12/12/2014), the DOJ is instructing U.S. attorneys not to prosecute the 566 federally recognized tribes for pot offenses, as long as they are following the same federal guidelines established for states like Washington and Colorado, where weed is legal. The amnesty applies even to Native American land in states where weed remains illegal.
I know Obama doesn't want to be known as a scary black man by shaking up the status quo. But really, it is time for the Obama administration to step up on this issue, make clear pronouncements, and then fire prosecutors and police who don't follow them. And Obama just went to a Federal prison and commuted the sentences of 46 drug offenders. Don't worry, there's more where they came from. Obama even stood by Michele Leonhart while she was publicly criticizing and badmouthing him and ignoring the pronouncements of her bosses. Seems we are seeing more of it.
Congress even has passed a law barring funds to interfere with state legal cannabis operations. Too bad, the DOJ guidelines are discretionary. The law is not, but hey, sue 'em if you don't like it. Because there's no way to stop them. Federal prosecutors who continue to violate the law by using federal funds to raid, imprison and prosecute stand their ground by saying that the law was not actually meant to do anything at all. http://www.drugpolicy.org/...
Sponsored by Reps. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Sam Farr (D-CA), and 10 others, the medical marijuana amendment is blunt. After listing all the medical marijuana states, it says: "None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used… to prevent such States from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana." (The bill also includes similar language barring the use of Justice Department funds to interfere with hemp research authorized under the already approved Agricultural Act of 2014.)