Marijuana news: U.S. House vote blocking feds from meddling in
state medical pot laws surprises even advocates (video)   An
amendment barring the U.S. Department of Justice from
interfering with state medical marijuana laws got a surprising
boost from GOP lawmakers.  Though many Republican lawmakers
remain opposed to marijuana reform, others view the federal war
on drugs as overreach "and a violation of the rights of more
than two dozen states that have legalized cannabis or specific
components of it for medical use," the Los Angeles Times
reports. The U.S. House narrowly passed the amendment Friday; it
now heads to the Democratic Senate.  Writes LA Times reporter
Evan Halper:  Most GOP stalwarts, of course, continue to rail
against liberalization of the laws. Rep. Andy Harris of
Maryland, a physician, declared during floor debate that medical
marijuana is a sham. Real medicine, he said, "is not two joints
a day, not a brownie here, a biscuit there. That is not modern
medicine."  But in a sign of how the time