After long debates regarding federal law and state law, Barney Frank still defends to decriminalize Marijuana as of today march 24 2008.  Frank says it should be left to the state to agree if drug policies should exist or not, and not up to the federal government. Franks says he is following the written constitution that: State’s can create their own laws and policies, and should be followed if a resident of the state. The DEA says that federal law is top priority, than state law.

 Frank, who filed a bill to decriminalize marijuana as a member of the Massachusetts Legislature in the 1970s, said the decision whether to make possession of the drug illegal should be left up to the states. He also said the federal government shouldn’t have a law on the books that is rarely enforced and which doesn’t make sense to large portions of the public. “Do you really think people should be prosecuted for smoking marijuana? I don’t think most people agree with that. It’s one area where the public is ahead of the elected officials,” Frank said in an interview with The Associated Press. “It does not appear to me to be a law that society is serious about.” Frank said he was particularly troubled by federal law enforcement agencies targeting those using marijuana as a legal medical treatment under California law. I don’t think smoking marijuana should be a federal case,” he said. “There’s no federal law against mugging Marijuana use is illegal under U.S. law, which does not recognize the medical marijuana laws in California and 11 other states.

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