In November, Californians will have the opportunity to vote on a ballot initiative legalizing all marijuana use, whether medicinal or not.
According to the latest poll of likely California voters, Proposition 19 will pass. This will put the Obama administration in an awkward position.
The federal government is already suing Arizona for its recently enacted immigration law. What will the Obama Justice Department do when a state goes rogue by establishing its own rules when it comes to licensing and taxing the sale of weed?
California law will be in opposition to federal law as well as in violation of a 1961 international treaty that prohibits the legalization of cannabis. The U.S. is a signatory to that treaty.
In a surprising move, Alice Huffman, the president of the California State Conference of the NAACP, threw the prestige of her organization behind Proposition 19.
