Obama's War on Medical Marijuana Ramps Up in Colorado

[Uncle Joe]

19. Does that "ignorant public" include candidate/President Obama and Congresswoman Pelosi?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002640854

For a brief moment in 2009, medical marijuana advocates exhaled. A new President had taken office promising to call off the federal prosecutors in states that had legalized weed for the sick. “What I’m not going to be doing is using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue,” Barack Obama had said during his presidential campaign. In his first year in office, the Justice Department told prosecutors not to focus on “individuals whose actions are in clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state laws providing for the medical use of marijuana.” Medical marijuana patients and the growing industry that supported them thought they were in the clear.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014112586

“I have strong concerns about the recent actions by the federal government that threaten the safe access of medicinal marijuana to alleviate the suffering of patients in California, and undermine a policy that has been in place under which the federal government did not pursue individuals whose actions complied with state laws providing for medicinal marijuana.

If the DOJ doesn't take its' marching orders from anyone, why aren't they closing them all down despite state law as the growing and selling of cannabis is a federal offense?