Medical Marijuana

WASHINGTON - The White House is going him not to say expressly. No more than Drug Enforcement Administration. However, him ya a smell in the air which American policy is going to change when it is about some medical marihuana.

The message is clear, declared UCLA professor Mark Kleiman, an ancient civil servant of the Department of justice and an expert in crime and the policy of drugs.

"It is not any more federal policy to be beaten on hippies", declared Kleiman.

Said this in DEA.

In California, last week, the agents searched four health centres of Los Angeles and grabbed 500 books of pot.

«It is a bit surprising not much, because I think current of direction DEA did not include the message», declared Kleiman. "The message is, it is not any more the warlike time of drug. We are not in a cultural crusade against pot - to smoke".

Californian law allows the sale of marihuana for medical aims, but he is still against federal law.

Thirteen States have laws allowing the medical usage of the marihuana. The California is unique among them the presence of health centres, the firms which sell marihuana and even advertising for their services. Morality by virtue of the laws of the California, health centres are always illegal by virtue of federal right.

"Every having person, to distribute or to cultivate some marihuana for any reason, in violation of federal right, "Sarah Pullen, a spokesperson of the DFE, in Los Angeles, pointed out on Thursday.

In May when law is, but he contradicts the position of the medical marihuana of the new president.

"The president thinks that federal resources should not be used to contravene state laws, and as he continues naming senior managements to fill the ranks of the federal government, he waits from them to see again their policies in this spirit", declared the White House The spokesperson Nick Shapiro, repeating crossed statements.

Then on Fridays, the representatives for the DEA in Washington refused to comment to all on subject.

As presidential candidate, Obama did not cease promising a change in the antidrug policy of the federal government in situations where State laws allow the use of the medical marihuana.

"I think that the basic concept of the use of the medical marihuana for the same aims and with the same controls as other medicaments prescribed by doctors, I think that it is completely appropriate", Obama declared in the Stand Mail de Medford, Oregon, in march.

One year before, in a stopping of campaign in New Hampshire, Obama declared: «I would have no Ministry of Justice to continue and of pillage of the consumers of medical marihuana».

In 47 years, Obama is part of a generation which had a lot of exhibition in the saucepan. Saliva drug test detection

In his memo, " Dreams from My Father ", he describes the time crossed to youth in close touch with questions about his breed and identity, and turning to drugs - including the marihuana and of cocaine - for "encourage questions to know which I was except my mind."

The new president has not enough chances to bring from change in official policy before having a new broom of DEA and of tsar of the drug in place.

However, the experts think that it is already clear that the Obama government is going to change logic, otherwise law, on the medical marihuana.

Philippe Heymann, an ancient sub-public prosecutor in the administration Clinton, who is now professor in Harvard, declared that it's about time for the Agency to put more efforts in the fight against drugs more dangerous than the marihuana.

"I expect to name an administrator who takes seriously less than the marihuana am traditional for DEA, as I think that most Americans" not, declared Heymann.

Heymann declared that he waits for the administration Obama will end up asking the ladder DEA inexorably towards raids on health centres, and to perform incursions only in cases where the investigating officers think that the firm fooled of the system dispensary as a cover for a criminal behaviour.

Then raids of last week in California in May the last of type will be.

«DEA is not likely to want to face up a new president", declared Heymann. «It is simply in May - to be that they you include as they have always, and they did not anticipate change Obama and his spokesperson are of signalling."