UPDATE: Write President Obama and make your voice heard! In a press conference today, all four U.S. Attorneys in California announced that the administration will no longer ignore dispensaries and will actively prosecute many commercial operations. The attorneys said they will concentrate on criminal prosecution and asset forfeiture against the landlords of medical marijuana dispensaries or cultivation centers, and threaten action against certain commercial organizations. Multiple businesses throughout…

The federal law barring medical use of marijuana has already cost Mara Lynn Williams her husband, and may now cost her her home as well. Williams, 56, said she had no idea her husband, Royce, was growing marijuana on their 40-acre property in Chilton County, Alabama until federal authorities raided their land and found 408 plants growing several hundred yards from their house. Then in May, Royce Williams committed suicide, rather than serve a potentially lengthy prison sentence for the federal drug…