Obama won’t go after marijuana use in 2 states

Associated Press ^ | Dec. 14, 2012 1:52 PM EST | Pete Yost

[Olog-hai]

President Barack Obama says the federal government won’t go after recreational marijuana use in Washington state and Colorado, where voters have legalized it.

In a Barbara Walters interview airing Friday on ABC, Obama was asked whether he supports making pot legal.

“I wouldn’t go that far,” Obama replied. “But what I think is that, at this point, Washington and Colorado, you’ve seen the voters speak on this issue.”

But the president said he won’t pursue the issue in the two states where voters legalized the use of marijuana in the November elections. Marijuana remains illegal under federal law. …

[Gay State Conservative]

Actually, he is. There's nothing Constitutional about our drug laws.

Until the SCOTUS says otherwise,they're presumed to be Constitutional.

[tacticalogic]

Until the SCOTUS says otherwise,they're presumed to be Constitutional.

If they are presumed to be Constitutional, SCOTUS will never say otherwise. SCOTUS saying otherwise has to start with someone challenging whether the law is constitutional. To do that you first have to throw out the presumption that it is constitutional.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

There's nothing Constitutional about our drug laws.

Until the SCOTUS says otherwise,they're presumed to be Constitutional.

"Presumed" for purposes of legal proceedings, perhaps - but no true conservative would let the court that has repeatedly upheld Roe v Wade decide for him what's Constitutional.

[stuartcr]

Maybe it just should be put to a vote in each state.