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This may shock you, but Colorado and Washington residents don’t use the most weed (if you’re measuring by the percent of state residents who regularly use marijuana.) Rhode Islanders do.
When states debate medical marijuana laws, one of the issues sure to come up is whether legalizing marijuana for medical uses sends the wrong message to young people.
It was just three years ago when President Obama (then candidate Obama) famously pledged to no longer use federal "Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws" regulating the physician authorized use of medical cannabis. And it was in the fall of 2009 that the administration issued the Ogden memorandum to federal prosecutors directing them to not "focus federal resources ...
At least 14 states this year will consider legalizing pot for medical purposes or lessening the penalties for possessing small amounts for personal use.