now cash flow, a dangerous combination. one i'm sure AG holder is well familiar with (at least i hope he is), but has never seemed to bother him. while pres. obama doesn't have to concern himself about re-election, there are lots of other politicians that do, and they aren't going to want to be seen as endorsing legal drug use. there's also the small matter of all those people who've been incarcerated for the very behavior that CO & WA have just said should be perfectly legal; how to explain "never mind", to all those directly and indirectly impacted by its having been illegal all these years, without looking like a complete tool? yeah, i know, if looking like a tool was an actual impediment to political success, we'd have few aspirants for the jobs, but still......................... Anti-narcotic laws have been around for a long time, but the Controlled Substances Act was still a rather big event in American drug policy as such things go. Plus, in a more pedantic sense, it appears that the phrase "War on Drugs" was popularized by Nixon. Just as a matter of common sense, and setting side my personal oppositon to the drug war, I think a reasonable and likely position for the administration would be that they aren't going to bust people for possession for use or small local sales. I suspect that if you're a farmer in Colorado with 10,000 acres of marijuana under cultivation, the feds will find it hard to