Shortly after President Obama took office, Department of Justice Deputy Attorney General David Ogden sent an email to various law enforcement offices in each state with existing medical marijuana legislation. The “Ogden” memo outlined the new Administration’s plan to respect state medical marijuana laws, withholding the right to prosecute for-profit operations, and plans to overhaul DEA policy for raiding medical marijuana facilities. It appeared as though President Obama truly would take a “practical approach” to medical marijuana, just as he’d told members of the Marijuana Policy Project during an interview on the campaign trail in 2008. In the wake of the memo, Arizona, New Jersey, Delaware, and the District of Columbia all approved medical marijuana programs. Patients and medical marijuana advocates were convinced that the Obama Administration was truly the beginning of a new day.
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