Last month, President Obama nominated Acting DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart to formally head the DEA. Previously, Leonhart was the DEA's Deputy Administrator during a time of more than 200 federal medical marijuana raids in California.
In the two weeks following Leonhart's promotion, the DEA just raided two Colorado medical marijuana laboratories that tested the quality of medical marijuana sold in the state. Meanwhile, local and federal officials were complaining that medical marijuana needed to be better tested.  On February 12th, the DEA raided a Colorado medical marijuana cultivator.
Four months ago, the US Department of Justice issued a new directive ending the Bush Administration policy of aggressively raiding distribution sites. The new policy discouraged the arrest and prosecution of state-law compliant dispensaries.
Is the DEA ignoring this Obama Administration directive? Please urge U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the DEA to end arrests and prosecutions in medical marijuana states.
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