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Marijuana Poll: Federal Government Shouldn't Interfere With State Laws, Americans Say

December 10, 2012. This article comes from The Huffington Post and it is written by Ariel Edwards-Levy.

Summary

:The New Marijuana law of Colorado became official on December 10 and most Americans mention that the states should have rights to decide their own marijuana policy based on polling. The governor of Colorado, John Hickenlooper had opposite opinion about legalizing marijuana in his state. However, he determined to sign it into law officially and he said that Colorado agencies would begin working immediately to implement the changes. According to a Gallup poll, 64 percent agreed that the federal government should not step to marijuana policy. Furthermore, a HuffPost and YouGov Poll showed same results that more than half of Americans advocated the statement that federal government should exempt adults who follow state marijuana laws from enforcement. Also 58 percent say that patients should be exempted in states where medical use is permitted for medical marijuana use.

My Opinion 

:From my point of view, I think that the state need to have their own power to establish laws or policies. The federal government should not enforce not only the state government but also the local government. In this case, even though marijuana is illegal drug, the governor of Colorado had already signed its marijuana policy into a law. It means that the state government can have their own right to decide to establish their own laws or policies. Best of all, more than half of Americans claim that the federal government should not interfere with state laws.