Let Them Have Their Weed!

That's a good news although I don't know how long this will last. As far as I am concerned marijuana should be legalized, this would end all the raids, incarcerations, punishments and confusions related to the drug. Marijuana controversies last for too long, I know people who refuse to attend a drug treatment program because they are afraid of any legal consequences.

I approve of the result, but shouldn't he be enforcing Federal law, which is his job?

I'd have more respect for him if he said he was going to de-prioritize (but not stop) such raids, while calling on Congress to fix the law.

Personally, I have no problem with him refusing to enforce an immoral law. If we must put it in "doing his job" terms, then this will better allow him to enforce other laws like fraud (or worse) without diverting resources to chasing terminal cancer patients. Besides, prosecutors make broad discretionary decisions about whether or not to pursue indictments all the time; here he's doing it to a broad class of people instead of a specific person, but it's still a power that prosecutors already have.

If he is failing in his duties as attorney general, then the court of public opinion will weigh in, up to and including the possibility of impeachment. I'd welcome such a debate about drug law reform. I think we'd see an uproar if he was refusing to indict for fraud or violent crimes or something else heinous, but I doubt it will happen here.