Yesterday was an uncomfortable day for U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Thanks, as usual, to the country's ongoing struggle with cannabis.
Holder appeared in front of the House Judiciary Committee, where members attacked him on marijuana — and from all sides.
Republicans bashed Holder for last summer's Cole Memo, in which the federal Justice Department said — for at least the second time — that they wouldn't enforce the Controlled Substances Act in states that had legalized marijuana as long as they followed a specific set of rules.
Meanwhile, Democrats took Holder to task for keeping marijuana a Schedule I controlled substance. Isn't putting pot in the same class as heroin and LSD — and ruling marijuana not as dangerous as cocaine or methamphetamine — just plain silly?, they asked.
No, Holder responded, it's not silly at all.
