Tags: U.S. Politics

Nine former administrators of the Drug Enforcement Administration blasted Department of Justice Attorney General's decision to soften its stance on marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington. Those two states had allowed legalization of marijuana after voter-approved ballot measures. Over two dozen other states, as well as D.C. allow medicinal marijuana.

The state of North Carolina became the third state to forbid law enforcement from destroying unclaimed firearms and weapons. The legislation was termed "save the guns" by advocates of the legislation

The United States Justice Department will not challenge laws in the two states, Colorado and Washington, which legalized the recreational use of marijuana.