Medical Marijuana

This is huge news.  The New York Times reports that the US Justice Department will stop the Bush Administration policy of raiding medical marijuana farms and distributors.  To an extend this means that marijuana is now legal, or at least quasi-legal, in 13 US States.  What will happen now will be particularly interesting to watch.  Does this signal a change in US drug policy away from the “war on drugs” towards something somewhat more realistic, or is it shifting scare resources to contain the drug motivated war taking place in parts of Mexico?

I hope it is a change in policy direction towards something, anything, different from those of the past, even if it means my state seeing a rapid influx of giggeling stoners.