Ron Paul and Barney Frank Push to End Federal Marijuana Prohibition

Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) are introducing legislation in Congress to limit the federal government's role in marijuana prohibition. While it only reduces the federal government's role to policing cross-border and interstate smuggling, it is definitely a step in the right direction.

The legislation would leave it completely up to the states to decide the issue for themselves. This is important because the federal government has been enforcing the federal prohibition on marijuana in states where it is explicitly legal, even after Obama claimed that the feds would be directed to not enforce federal law in that manner.

Of course, this doesn't really help the situation in Oklahoma, where a grandmother can get a 30-year sentence on her first offense for selling a few dimes or a life sentence for making hashish for the first time.