Grace Wyler, Vice: Late last night, when no one was paying attention, the U.S. House of Representatives did something that Congress has never done before: They voted to lighten up on marijuana prohibition. In a bipartisan vote, lawmakers passed an amendment that would bar the DEA from messing with state marijuana laws, prohibiting the agency from spending any of its funding on targeting legal weed operations and users. It was a shocking moment of clarity for an institution that has spent the past three decades propping up the federal government's failing war on drugs. Even more surprisingly, the amendment passed the infamously gridlocked chamber on the strength of both parties, with a final vote tally of 219 to 189.
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