Indopedia All Things Marijuana
Although U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions may have some sort of evil plan to unleash a federal crackdown on the legal cannabis trade, his sabotage tactics can no longer have anything to do with medical marijuana – at least not until this fall.
Over the weekend, Congress passed a temporary rider, known as the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, which was drafted to prevent the Justice Department from spending tax dollars to harass the medical marijuana community. The protections detailed in this massive $1 trillion spending bill states that NONE of the money made available to the Department of Justice can be used to “prevent any [states] from implementing their own laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.”
Congress has renewed the amendment every year since it was first approved in 2014.
In the beginning, however, there was a great deal of controversy surrounding its language. The Justice Department claimed Rohrabacher-Farr only stopped the government from interfering with a state’s will to legalize medical marijuana, while legal experts argued that the rider actually covers the entire scope of the medicinal cannabis…
