Rep. Howard McKeon, R-Calif., says the administration is in the process of declassifying evidence that the Syrian government used chemical weapons against its own people.

The policy director for the Marijuana Project calls today’s decision ‘a major and historic step toward ending marijuana prohibition.’

The move signals Obama’s intent to show he hasn’t lost sight of the cause he took up after 20 first graders and six adults were gunned down last year in Newtown, Conn.