Randy Barnett, the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory, on medical marijuana users after the Department of Justice announced it would not prosecute medicinal marijuana use:

"It's obvious that if they're not going to be prosecuted by the feds, and they're not going to be prosecuted by the states, they now are free of a huge legal threat. That's big from the point of view of the sick and suffering."

Medical Marijuana Policy Move Sparks Cautious Optimism

October 24, 2009, CNN.com