Politics

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday said it will not stand in the way of voter-approved initiatives in Colorado and Washington to legalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. Last November, voters in both states passed initiatives to allow the recreational use of marijuana; Oregon voters turned back a similar initiative. Regardless of the vote, marijuana remains “an illegal drug under the Controlled Substances Act and that federal prosecutors will continue to aggressively

The senior Republican on the U.S. Senate health committee this week said Americans should be concerned about the continual delays in implementing Obamacare. “I’ve been warning that a train wreck is coming with this law, but the truth is that no train wreck has ever had this many warning signs,” U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said in a statement. “The avalanche of last-minute delays should make every American anxious about the quality of the health