Obama: Federal Marijuana Prohibition Untenable

NORML | November 10, 2016

WASHINGTON, DC — President Barack Obama says that passage of state laws legalizing and regulating the use of marijuana calls into question the future of federal prohibition.

Speaking in a taped interview with Bill Maher prior to the election, Obama said:

“[T]his referenda, to some degree it’s gonna call [into] question [federal marijuana prohibition], because if in fact it passed in all these states, you now have about a fifth of the country that’s operating under one…