It's 2016. How Is Weed Still Illegal on a Federal Level?

I KEEP READING about them too. Last month, Pennsylvania legalized medical marijuana. Last week, it was Louisiana. As of today, 25 states and Washington, DC, have legalized weed for medical use. That's sort of more than half. By the end of this year, a true majority of states will have legalized something that is federally illegal.

These days, it barely makes the news when a state turns the corner on medical cannabis. That was even true in Louisiana, the first state in the Deep South to loosen up. It seems strange that the federal government would
continue to criminalize something that a majority of the states have legalized to some degree. And yet, here we are.