Will Obama Keep His Marijuana Promise?

Reason.com is not normally a supporter of Barack Obama. However when it comes to medical marijuana, the majority of US and Canadian citizens are on the same page: marijuana is proven to ease the suffering of some people, therefore they should be lawfully permitted to possess and use it.

But as Steve Chapman writes at Reason:

...as opponents of the Iraq war, "don't-ask-don't-tell," and Guantanamo know, a promise made by Obama is not exactly money in the bank. This time, though, he deserves full credit for doing what he said he would do, repudiating a bipartisan legacy of pig-headed stupidity.

What's more, Obama may not stop there. Some drug reformers expect the administration to agree to let a scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst grow cannabis for research on its medical potential—something the Bush administration opposed, lest the research contradict its ideology.

And then let's hope he drives straight on and decriminalizes pot altogether. That's change just about everybody can get behind. Well, except organized crime. And the cops. Wait... what?