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Reason Magazine examines the Obama administration’s decision to reverse course and prosecute medical-marijuana operations just as Arizona’s program is getting off the ground:

As Mike Riggs noted on Thursday night, the Justice Department’s new medical marijuana memo (PDF) confirms that President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are reneging on their promises to respect state law. Under the policy described by Deputy Attorney General James Cole on Wednesday, “commercial operations cultivating, selling or distributing marijuana” are fair game, even when they are explicitly authorized by state law.…

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