They Jumped The Gun

but it looks like they were correct in being happy, assuming the AP is correct:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MEDICAL_MARIJUANA?SITE=TXKER&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

I'm uncomfortable on this just from a principle stance. We are a federalist government . Federal law hold supremacy over state law. To not enforce federal law because of conflicting state law just sits badly with me from a precedent stand point. I feel like if the administration doesn't want these prosecuted, rather than doing it the cheap way they should push to make a law that gives state authority over these matters - or at the very least try that first before going this route.

Granted, I feel that the many overburdened DA's office have better cases to deal with; I would never send out a memo saying "don't prosecute this crime ." And I doubt this is really about alleviating the overburdening of our DA's anyway since they are plenty of other crimes that could be cited. Basically, this is the administrations way of taking the cheap way out on this issue while still appeasing some of their base on the issue of medical marijuana (strong advocates,tend to be more on the liberal side in my experience, but I don't have stats to support that).