Marijuana use will continue to be barred on the UO campus even though a new law legalizing the drug was passed by Oregon voters this month, a university leader told USA Today.

In a story appearing Friday, Nov. 14, Vice President for Student Life Robin Holmes says that the university’s policy on pot has not changed with passage of the law, which takes effect in July.

“Marijuana use is, and will continue to be, prohibited on campus,” Holmes said in an email to the newspaper. “Because Measure 91 does not make any significant changes to Oregon law until July 2015, we will be working between now and then to address any necessary policy changes as a result of the change in state law.”

Although the law is changing, the UO’s code of student conduct has not. The code prohibits any use, sale, possession, distribution or cultivation of marijuana.

Marijuana remains illegal under federal law. Public universities, including the UO, typically receive a substantial amount of their total funding from the federal government and risk losing that funding if they relax rules on marijuana.