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Candidate barack obama called for dea raids a waste of taxpayer money. >> what i am not going to be doing is to use justice department resources to circumvent this issue. >> are you prepared for the oath? >> i am, sir. >> he made the campaign statements official policy with the justice department releasing the ogden memo which suggests that the government would no longer focus resources on individuals whose actions were in clear and unambiguous compliance with the state laws. basically, if you were using or growing marijuana for medical purposes in states where it is legal, you would not have ...

For dea raids a waste of taxpayer money. >> what i am not going to be doing is to use justice department resources to circumvent this issue. >> are you prepared for the oath? >> i am, sir. >> he made the campaign statements official policy with the justice department releasing the ogden memo which suggests that the government would no longer focus resources on individuals whose actions were in clear and unambiguous compliance with the state laws. basically, if you were using or growing marijuana for medical purposes in states where it is legal, you would not have to worry about the feds knocki...

Purposes in states where it is lae gal, you would not have to worry about the feds knocking down the door. this shift led to dispensaries proliferating across states that had previously legalized it. but contradictory to what the ogden statement said in the following two years of the release, the department of j justice actually increased the raids. in 2011, as the crackdowns continued, the justice department released a subsequent memo saying that the marijuana medical patients would be free from prosecution, but not industrial growers. by april 2012, the number of dispensaries raided grew to ...