“Coming out of the recent election, it is clear that we’re in the midst of a serious national conversation about marijuana,” said Kerliwowske. The federal government has yet to respond substantively as to whether or not it will seek to impede that process. The use and possession of small amounts of marijuana by adults over 21 is now legal in both states, and officials in both are now grappling with the task of coming up with and implementing regulations for legal marijuana commerce. The three had a combined signature total of more than 173,000.īut they also come in a political context altered by last November’s elections, when two states, Colorado and Washington, easily approved marijuana legalization initiatives. Kerlikowske’s terse comments on the topic came in response to three marijuana legalization petitions posted on the White House’s We the People web site, which promises to respond to any petition that garners more than 25,000 signatures. Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP-the drug czar’s office) head Gil Kerlikowske said Tuesday that the country is “in the midst of a serious national conversation about marijuana”-an at least rhetorical advance from his 2009 position that marijuana legalization is “not in the president’s vocabulary and not in mine.”
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