Last year, the Department of Justice warned that Arizona officials might face federal prosecution for implementing the state’s voter-approved medical-marijuana program.
That appears increasingly unlikely after the Justice Department said Thursday that states can let people use the drug, license people to grow it and even allow adults to stroll into stores and buy it — as long as the marijuana is kept away from kids, the black market and federal property.
In a sweeping new policy statement prompted by pot-legalization votes in Washington and Colorado last fall, the department gave the green light to states to adopt tight regulatory schemes to oversee the medical and recreational marijuana industries burgeoning across the country.
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