Cannabis

but far too many marijuana activists are spending time in prison, even as you state so blithely that "juries out west don't convict."

And the reason for the lack of pot convictions in the state of Colorado is not that Obama suddenly became all nice-y nice-y about the marijuana issue. Instead, it has to do with how Colorado passed laws that provided for meticulous state oversight of the stores and cultivators, which apparently satisfied the US government.

From an article over at TheSacramento Bee,
link** http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/california-weed/article2589267.html
As one California business man who was convicted of felonies relating to his dispensary activity, he also blames his fate on California legislators’ failure to set clear rules for a medical marijuana industry that mushroomed to more than $1 billion in taxable marijuana sales by 2010. In contrast, Colorado passed laws that provided meticulous state oversight of marijuana stores and cultivators, apparently satisfying the U.S. government, which sharply curtailed prosecutions of marijuana businesses there.

“Our state happily took $100 million in tax money” from medical marijuana business in California, “but when the time came to help us out, they were never to be found,” Davies said in a recent interview at his accountant’s office in Stockton. “If California had the gumption to remove the ambiguities of our law, there is no way a federal prosecutor would have been able to prosecute me.”

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/california-weed/article2589267.html#storylink=cpy