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full measure after hours. Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison here.

Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.

Today as more states legalize recreational marijuana

it's easy to forget that pot is still illegal according to the federal

government. That conflict with states being allowed to ignore federal law, at least when it comes to

some things, maybe not others, that's the subject of our cover story this week. According to polls, most Americans support legal marijuana.

And that's reflected in a growing number of states that have legalized marijuana.

I think New Mexico, Virginia, South Dakota, those are some of the latest states to pass laws

that will allow pot to be sold. Sunday's cover story on full measure,

we're talking November 14th,

looks at the conflicting laws.

Pot is illegal at the national level,

but the feds don't enforce the laws basically in

states that violate federal law by legalizing it. I bet you didn't know that under

federal law marijuana is still considered an illegal

Schedule 1 drug the same as heroin and LSD which supposedly means there's a

high potential for abuse or harm and no accepted medical use.

That could be changing.

There's a lot of talk about whether there will be a change on a national level,

what the Supreme Court may do is it picks up challenges that could be related.

But moving off the specific issue of marijuana,

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