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work. the presidens administration is ordering a change in policy as it regards to medical marijuana. good evening, i m jim vance. i m doreen gentzler. the justice department issued a memo today telling federal prosecutors that it is not a good use of their time to chase people who are complying with state medical marijuana laws. steve handelsman has more on this story flow capitol hill. steve? reporter: doreen, thanks. good evening, over on pennsylvania avenue at the justice department, they say that this has been administration policy. this marijuana policy s been in force, they say, since barack obama took office, but now that s writing. and that s energizing both sides on this issue. at the capitol head shop today three miles from the white house owner activist ida was overjoyed. it is kind av an exciting moment for anyone who has worked on medical cannabis for years. reporter: president obama promised the change. today it was formalized by his justice dep ....
spoke about his book at politics and prose bookstore in washington, d.c. this event is 45 minutes. well, i m always happy to come to politics and prose. i never get as good audiences in any bookstore i speak in as in this one. and as barbara said, this is the third time i ve had the pleasure of speaking here. i came to this book in a police car way. peculiar way. i was teaching at beirut university as barbara mentioned. i was asked to do some research and i responded i can t do any research on soviet-middle east policy. see if you have any literature and see if you can make some of the contradiction and i realized many knew none of the history of the politics, culture or anything else of the middle east. they knew no mideastern language than i do. and i never claimed i knew russian but because of the generosity of our government in translating a huge volume of materials from the russian current digest of the soviet press and an english-speaker like myself had acce ....
woman, kyra phillips, next in the cnn newsroom. north korea opens its doors to the bill clinton private citizen on a private mission to free two americans. incredible pictures from a secretive state. general motors did it. chrysler did it. now detroit public schools may go where no school system has gone before. bankruptcy. we ll do the math. and we ll talk trash with a couple who s sworn off garbage for a year. reduce, reuse, recycle, and compost, compost, compost. hello, everyone, i m kyra phillips, live at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. you re live in the cnn you re live in the cnn newsroom. captions by vitac www.vitac.com well, the world is talking about bill clinton s surprise trip to north korea, but now the whole world is asking what will he get and what did he come for? the 42nd president is trying to win the freedom of two american journalists who were captured in march and sentenced to years of hard labor. the white house insists tha ....