Marijuana State Law Response Planned Soon, Holder Tells Panel

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The U.S. Justice Department will respond to the state laws passed to legalize marijuana “relatively soon,” Attorney General Eric Holder said.

“We are considering what the federal response to those new statutes will be,” Holder said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today. “We will have the ability to announce what our policy will be relatively soon.”