As DCSOB points out, the Justice Department has told Rep. Ernest Istook that it won’t proceed further to defend the Oklahoma Republican’s appropriations rider that punished WMATA or other transit agencies for accepting any advertisement that promotes the medical use of marijuana. (The ad that angered Istook is the one pictured at right from changetheclimate.org.) Justice says that since a federal court has ruled that Istook’s measure was unconstitutional, its hands are essentially tied.

While DCSOB wonders whether the ads will go back up on the “Green” Line, we wonder, will the medicinal marijuana lobby target Union Station and Capitol South station for a new ad blitz to confront Congressional staffers, aides and other cogs who turn the wheels of democracy?