Why is the Obama Administration Suddenly Fixated on Stomping out Medical Pot?

This is an automatically generated summary, original reduced by 56%.

At the same time public support for marijuana legalization reached record highs, Obama shifted from one time medicinal cannabis sympathizer to White House weed-whacker.

Perhaps the greatest underlying motivator for the administration's sudden and severe crackdown on medical marijuana providers and patients is its desire to preserve America's longstanding criminalization of cannabis for everyone else.

There is little doubt that the rapid rise of the medical marijuana industry and the legal commerce inherent to it is arguably the single biggest threat to federal cannabis prohibition.

According to Gallup, in 1996 - when California became the first state to allow for the legally sanctioned use of cannabis therapy - only 25 percent of Americans backed legalizing marijuana for all adults.

While the passage and enactment of statewide medical marijuana laws - 16 states and the District of Columbia now have laws recognizing marijuana's therapeutic use on the books - is not solely driving the public's shift in support for broader legalization, it is arguably a major factor.

Tens of millions of Americans residing in these states are learning, first hand, that they can coexist with marijuana being legal! And that is the lesson the federal government fears most.

Summary Source | FAQ | Theory | Feedback | Top three keywords: marijuana^#1 cannabis^#2 state^#3

---

Also posted in /r/Marijuana.

NOTICE: This thread is for discussing the submission topic only. Discussion of the autotldr bot goes here.