Robert MacCoun interviewed by KALW, City Visions, January 14, 2013
“At the heart of all of this is the Controlled Substance Act which states that marijuana is a Schedule I controlled substance, meaning that it has no legitimate medical use. So the federal-state conflict really comes down to a now fairly old federal law that conflicts with what the states are trying to do. The choice that the federal government faces … is how aggressively to reconcile that by forcing states to comply with federal law.”