At a roundtable hearing on the state of D.C.’s medical marijuana program this morning, the consensus is that the list of qualifying conditions needs to be expanded.

The Department of Justice announced today that it will not oppose state marijuana laws.

It took a popular ballot referendum, 12 years of congressional meddling, and three more of bureaucratic slow-walking, but at long last, D.C. residents who suffer from some of the worst diseases can finally get prescriptions for medical marijuana.

District residents who suffer from cancer, glaucoma, or AIDS are now mere weeks away from being able to relieve their pain with medical marijuana.