Ex-DEA heads, U.N. panel urge feds to nullify Wash., Colo. pot laws

The Seattle Times (US)
Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Eight former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs warned the federal government that time is running out to nullify Colorado and Washington's new laws legalizing recreational marijuana use, and a United Nations agency also urged challenges to the measures it says violate international treaties. The former DEA chiefs criticized Barack Obama's administration for moving too slowly to file a lawsuit that would force the states to rescind the legislation. (Author, overseer of Washington pot law downplay ex-DEA chiefs’ war on weed)