The American Public Is Doing a 180 on Marijuana Prohibition...

How Come the Politicians Aren't?
Alternet (US web)
Friday, November 9, 2012

we_need_weedThe election results this week from Washington, Colorado, Massachusetts and Arkansas demonstrate that public opinion about cannabis has moved much faster than the positions of elected officials. Despite what the voters in Washington and Colorado did, growing and selling marijuana will remain federal felonies. The federal reaction is crucial, and at the moment unpredictable. We probably won’t know until a new attorney general takes office.