"Holding all of the contrary rules in temporary equilibrium is the fact that our justice system runs on prosecutorial discretion, a bow to the reality that finite law-enforcement resources must be targeted where they’re most needed. Prosecutors look to the Department of Justice for guidance, and the Justice Department in turn looks to the president. So while legalization has of late been a battle waged state by state, the near-term future of pot in America could well be decided by the 2016 presidential election—and the new chief executive’s choice of an attorney general. Mark Kleiman, a drug policy expert at UCLA and a prominent reform advocate who helped Washington State put together the regulations for its new marketplace, put it this way: “You could reappoint John Ashcroft as attorney general and people could be going to prison for long terms for things that they’re doing right now.”
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/marijuana-2016-elections-gop-102186.html?hp=t1_s#.UtbgP555PAw
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