Cannabis policy of the Barack Obama administration
During the presidency of Barack Obama, the government eased enforcement of federal marijuana laws in U.S. states permitting cannabis use.[1][2][3] This made massive strides compared to the Bush administration because Bush didn't do anything at all to ease federal marijuana laws.[4] This also applies to the every other administration before him including Nixon administration.[5]
Contrastingly, Time reported in 2012, "Two years [after his first year in office], the Obama Administration is cracking down on medical marijuana dispensaries and growers just as harshly as the Administration of George W. Bush did."[6]
According to Jessica Bulman-Pozen and Gillian E. Metzger in 2016, "in declining to enforce the federal Controlled Substances Act with respect to marijuana offenses in Colorado and Washington, the [Obama] Administration has accommodated those states’ decisions to legalize recreational marijuana use."[7]
See also
- Cole Memorandum
- Eric Holder, served as the 82nd Attorney General of the United States from 2009 to 2015
- Michele Leonhart, former Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration
- Political positions of Barack Obama
References
- ^ "Barack Obama 'to overturn' Bush-era cannabis policy". Daily Telegraph. 2009-10-19. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
- ^ "Obama: Marijuana Users Not High Priority". ABC News. 2012-12-26. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
- ^ Lynch, Sarah N. (January 4, 2018). "Trump administration drops Obama-era easing of marijuana prosecutions". Reuters. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
- ^ Me, myself, and I.
- ^ Richard Nixon's resignation speech, retrieved 2023-08-17
- ^ Scherer, Michael. "What Is President Obama's Problem With Medical Marijuana?". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
- ^ Bulman-Pozen, Jessica; Metzger, Gillian E. (2016-07-01). "The President and the States: Patterns of Contestation and Collaboration under Obama". Publius: The Journal of Federalism. 46 (3): 308–336. doi:10.1093/publius/pjw008. ISSN 0048-5950.
