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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 also applies to the every other administration before him including Nixon administration.
The Cole Memorandum was sent to all United States Attorneys and was formally titled "Guidance Regarding Marijuana Enforcement". The Cole Memorandum was a United States Department of Justice memorandum issued August 29, 2013, by United States Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole during the presidency of Barack Obama.
2015: President Barack Obama declares his support for cannabis decriminalization but opposition to legalization. [154] [155] 2022: President Joe Biden, in ordering a review of the scheduling status of cannabis, states: "We classify marijuana at the same level as heroin – and more serious than fentanyl. It makes no sense." [156]
During the counterculture of the 1960s, attitudes towards marijuana and drug abuse policy changed as marijuana use among "white middle-class college students" became widespread. [3] In Leary v. United States (1969), the U.S. Supreme Court held the Marihuana Tax Act to be unconstitutional since it violated the Fifth Amendment.
The Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act is a series of federal marijuana decriminalization bills that have been introduced multiple times in the United States Congress. The bills propose to legalize and end the prohibition of marijuana at the federal level by amending the United States Code (removing Marijuana from the Controlled ...
In December, however, the amendment was inserted into the $1.1 trillion "cromnibus" spending bill during final negotiations, [7] and the bill was signed into law by President Obama on December 16, 2014. [8] The Rohrabacher–Farr amendment passed the House for a second time on June 3, 2015, by a 242–186 margin. [9]
According to Voice of America, "The impetus for the legislation was a decision by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in January to rescind Obama-era Justice Department guidelines that encouraged prosecutors to adopt a hands-off approach to marijuana law enforcement in states where the substance was legal", referring to the Cole Memorandum provisions rescinded on January 4, 2018.
Despite statements as a Senator, where Obama called for marijuana decriminalization, promises as a presidential candidate where he stated that marijuana laws needed to be reconsidered and explicit statements as president that he would respect state medical marijuana laws, Barack Obama has presided over 1.7 million arrests for nonviolent drug ...