Legal Pot

From Yahoo:
"U.S. allows states to legalize recreational marijuana within limits"

In a move marijuana advocates hailed as a historic shift, the Obama administration on Thursday began giving U.S. states wide leeway to experiment with pot legalization and started by letting Colorado and Washington carry out new laws permitting recreational use. The Justice Department said it would refocus marijuana enforcement nationwide by bringing criminal charges only in eight defined areas - such as distribution to minors - and giving breathing room to users, growers and related businesses that have feared prosecution. The decisions end nearly a year of deliberation inside President Barack Obama's administration about how to react to the growing movement for relaxed U.S. marijuana laws. Advocates for legalization welcomed the announcement as a major step toward ending what they called "marijuana prohibition." The leeway for the states will go only so far, though, if Colorado, Washington or other states show they are unable to control the drug, the Justice Department said in a statement. Forty-two percent of Americans age 12 or older have used marijuana at some point, according to a 2011 survey by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Obama has said he used marijuana when he was young.

 ^ I think pot should only be legal for medical uses and the Federal Government should allow it only in those situations. ^

http://news.yahoo.com/u-not-sue-colorado-washington-over-recreational-pot-173124195.html