Recently President Obama said addressing marijuana was an issue for Congress. However, as with immigration, job creation, social security, tax reform, and the right to privacy, a gridlocked Congress has failed to act.
This petition requests President Obama follow through with the promise in his State of the Union to act where Congress wont. A simple executive order could reclassify marijuana as a schedule II or less, thus allowing for States to put in place regulatory schemes that make sense and ending over 80 years of prohibition that has robbed opportunity from countless US Citizens. The science is in and the current classification, highly addictive with no medicinal value, is arbitrary and capricious.