禁與放

On January 1st， 2014， about 348 cannabis retail licenses were issued in Colorado， making this state the first one in American to legalize the selling of recreational marijuana. The news caused heated debate immediately. Marijuana， transformed from a formidable drug to a legal recreational drug， is gradually moving towards its future path of liberation. But a United States state attorney's office spokesman said: \"The United States federal law will not be influenced by states’ votes\". Since the United States federal law still takes marijuana as an illegal drug under federal control， the future of marijuana still has lots of uncertainties， and the debate over \"prohibitng\" or \"legalizing\" marijuana will continue.

美國時間2014年1月1日，科羅拉多州頒發了約348個大麻零售許可證，成為美國第一個銷售娛樂性大麻合法的州。消息一出，旋即引起熱議。大麻，從令人生畏的毒品到醫用合法，再到現在的娛樂性合法，正逐漸走向其未來的解放之路。但針對這一次在科羅拉多州娛樂性大麻的合法，美國國家律師辦公室的發言人卻說:“美國的聯邦法律將不受各州投票結果的影響”，因為美國的聯邦法律依舊把大麻歸類為聯邦控制的毒品。這不僅意味著未來大麻的執法分寸將難以把握，也預示著大麻“禁”與“放”的爭議仍將持續。