Up until now, US President Barack Obama had made little to no comments regarding the legalization of marijuana
in two states of the Union; however, as Congress attempts to interfere,
Obama's DC pot opinion prevails: he thinks the legislative body should stand down in the face of the legalized bill.
After the success of the bill that made Colorado the first state in the US to legalize cannabis
as a recreational habit beyond medical use, Obama's DC pot stand
becomes clear in the midst of a Congressional battle to stop the
legislation: the will of the people of the District of Columbia should
be respected.
According to ABC News,
the latest Obama DC pot update says that the US president approves of
the recreational use of the drug, as it was approved to be legalized in
the state in a referendum last November, though further measures
regarding this topic have been stopped by the United States Congress.
"We do not believe that Congress should spend a lot of time
interfering with the ability of the citizens of the District of Columbia
to make decisions related to how they should govern their community,"
said Josh Earnest, a White House representative, to Jonathan Karl
earlier this week.
According to The Hill,
the Obama DC pot statement came last Thursday, after the Congress has
interfered in the DC law, blocking the recently approved legalization.
When asked directly whether the president supported the general
legalization of cannabis, Earnest replied that, since the people of the
District of Columbia had voted yes on the ballot last November, the
president believed that "on principle" their opinion regarding it should
not be ruled out.
According to The Washington Times,
the issue that drove Obama's DC pot statement was that Congress
Republicans have intended to block the approve legalization by inserting
a budget rider in the spending plan, which would prevent the city from
spending its own money for legislation to loosen drug penalties - or, in
this case, abolish them entirely.
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