This petition requests that President Obama instruct Attorney General Eric Holder to work with the states of Colorado and Washington [and additionally any state in the future who, through ballot initiative and an affirmative vote of the state's citizens, pass similar laws] to honor the legalization of industrial hemp as a states rights issue. Further, we request that in the event of the failure of the 113th Congress to act on pending legislation addressing both states rights and de-coupling that the President issue an Executive Order de-coupling industrial hemp from Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act, honor the rights of the states in the absence of a change in current federal law and move the regulatory oversight of industrial hemp from the DEA to USDA



