All those in the cannabis law reformation scheme had some serious motivation to be confident as the Senator Barack Obama got to be President in the month of January 2009. As a contender for Senate and then for President, Obama had given great support to the idea of decriminalizing cannabis.

However, a lot of them lost hopes on the President when it came to marijuana law reformation, as he showed not much interest. In the initial days, Obama treated this smoking as well as cannabis legalization very lightly and he never took it too seriously at that point of time.

There were evidences that came out quite early during one of Obama’s town halls, which were the events that he held often during the first term for answering the questions from the people on the net. During these town halls, the questions on marijuana legalization mostly dominated online voting.

Soon after that, Obama’s team started going against the popular marijuana suppliers in places like California and Colorado. Things got so awful that even Obama-loving – Rolling Stone was then running features like Presidents War on Pot. The Nation, which is also another big publisher, used a similar headline.

With the 2nd terms of Obama as the President came a set of medical cannabis crackdowns. There was some nudging from the Congress. Restrictions were then put on departments of justice for keeping them constantly continuing the remarks on MMJ suppliers.

The popular Ogden Memo gave way to Cole Memo, which said the feds actually expected states, which legalized marijuana as Colorado and Washington had just done for setting up serious regulatory oversight of this particular industry. A lot of them saw this as the concession to allowing states choose their own policy for cannabis and also time has now shown this to be the real case. Though the marijuana raids by the feds have remained sporadic, they have actually not gone back to that level, which was seen during Obama’s first term.

President Obama had given the legalization of marijuana movement a big lift by letting many states to try out with various models of marijuana legalization without any federal involvement. It has given the people of the US an opportunity for demonstrating that ending marijuana prohibition and also legalizing its responsible use is one option that works really well.