The federal government is finally going to stop targeting medical marijuana dispensers. They will instead focus on those who use medical marijuana as anexcuse to sell drugs. It was sickening to hear stories about raids on Medical Marijuana facilities that were legal on the State level but not federal level, having people, sick people, show up to get their weekly or monthly prescription filled only to be turned away because federal agents made off with the marijuana. Patting themselves on the back for fighting the war on drugs, by targeting the least dangerous ‘criminals’. Hopefully this is a step toward making medical marijuana legal across the entire U.S. on a state and federal level.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Wednesday outlined a shift in the enforcement of federal drug laws, saying the administration would effectively end the Bush administration’s frequent raids on distributors of medical marijuana.

Speaking with reporters, Mr. Holder provided few specifics but said the Justice Department’s enforcement policy would now be restricted to traffickers who falsely masqueraded as medical dispensaries and “use medical marijuana laws as a shield.”

In the Bush administration, federal agents raided medical marijuana distributors that violated federal statutes even if the dispensaries appeared to be complying with state laws. The raids produced a flood of complaints, particularly in California, which in 1996 became the first state to legalize marijuana sales to people with doctors’ prescriptions.

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