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States Should Control Marijuana Enforcement
Federal restrictions shouldn’t apply where pot is legal. Kudos to senators working to turn that idea into law.
Stay away, Washington.
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When Colorado voted to legalize marijuana in 2012, Republican Cory Gardner was on the losing side. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Gardner rebuked Eric Holder, the attorney general under President Barack Obama, for making the enforcement of federal marijuana laws in legalizing states a low priority. Now that he is a senator, however, Gardner has become convinced that states should be able to set their own marijuana policies.
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