This Thursday, President Obama will field questions submitted from the world of social media during a live-streamed YouTube interview. NORML supporters can send their questions to the President at youtube.com/askobama, or via Twitter, by using the #askobama hashtag.
Obama will answer the top-rated questions when the interview kicks off at 2:30 p.m. EST on Thursday.
Update: Many marijuana questions are appearing in the Other category.
In two prior online question-n-answer sessions with the American public since taking office over two years ago, the question of ending America’s failed Cannabis Prohibition was a top question both times–which speaks to the importance and urgency of the public’s want to actually control cannabis via taxation and regulation. However, regrettably, President Obama has dismissed ending Cannabis Prohibition in no uncertain terms.
If you’re interested in asking President Obama about reforming America’s 74-year-old Cannabis Prohibition laws, you’ll have to send in your question by midnight, Tuesday, January 25th.
Be concise! White House staff says each question “should be about 20 seconds long.”
Suggested short questions for President Obama:
- Wouldn’t finally legalizing marijuana in America end the terrible Prohibition-related violence in Mexico. If not, why not?
- You claim you want to be the first ‘green jobs’ president. In a green economy, why does your administration continue to oppose American farmers growing industrial hemp. Governments in Canada, France and China allow their farmers to prosper from industrial hemp cultivation, why not American farmers?
- Though you say you support medical access to cannabis, why does your drug czar (Gil Kerlikowski) and DEA chief (Michele Leonhart) continue to publicly lie claiming that cannabis has no medical use or value?
- If Jamaica (or Mexico), for example, wanted to legalize and tax cannabis, would your administration oppose their efforts to end Cannabis Prohibition in their country?
- As a person struggling with tobacco addiction, do you think the criminal justice system works better than health services to ween drug abusers from self-destructive behavior? Is the decision to stop using a drug, like tobacco, or marijuana, a personal or governmental decision?
You can check out a great question to President Obama from our friends at LEAP here.
[Russ adds: You can see the video questions I submitted to President Obama via The Stash Blog at http://stash.norml.org/youtube-ask-obama-forum-dominated-by-marijuana-legalization-questions]
Mr. O There are more recorded deaths from drinking and smoking tobacco then marijuana why not taxt it? It might save 1000 of lives
Excellent questions! I ESPECIALLY like the last one! RIGHT ON!
I think with everything there is out there marijuana should be the least worried about drug to keep illegal. Cigarettes and alcohol kill many many more people than marijuana, yet they are
Legal! How many people have died from drunk driving? Cancer from cigarettes? The deaths atributed to weed is far less yet we spend millions keeping it illegal?! For my part if marijuana is illegal the latter should be illegal even more so! Legalize it, It just makes no sense not to!
I am not going to bother to ask a question about marijuanna legalization (Medical or other wise)because I know that it WILL NOT BE ASKED during the interview. I don’t think the question will be asked even if it is the ONLY question they have. They will make up something rather than face the FACTS.
When Will Congress debate about the current illegal basis of Marijuana? or will States be forced to take action? If a state law is in violation with the federal law, Isn’t it the goverments respnsibilty to fix that problem?
i think it is AWESOME! that damn near almost every question is about marijuana and/or hemp. if he laughs it off and snubs the majority again, he will completely lose my vote for 2012
You are also able to vote, it is highly time consuming but just as important as posting a question. Thumbs up on drug law reform questions! This is pretty much what I have been doing for the last few days.
Here’s one he should answer: Mr. President, if you believe the current approach of criminalizing marijuana and its’ users is the correct one, will your administration not take the logical next step and begin tobacco prohibition? This is a proven, deadly addictive narcotic plant that perfectly fits the DEA’s definition of a Schedule I controlled substance: will you not begin arresting it’s users and suppliers to save our citizens from this scourge? And if not, why not?
I don’t think it’s a matter of whether it’ll be a top question again, but rather if he’ll actually acknowledge it instead of laughing it off like some sort of ridiculous joke.
You say you want to put americans to work. Why will you not let us grow industrial hemp? WHY will you not legalize , decriminalize, tax? Put us to work. Put your money where your mouth is…
what a surprise. the popular questions are already dominated by marijuana themed questions. im betting he will ignore us… again…
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Obama is a one term president so it really doesn’t matter what he says. Our next president will likely be someone like Palin, Romney or Huckabee and I can promise you they will be on the side of law Enforcement and the DEA. They will preach the same ol Bullsheet. America is going down the crapper and I blame the Republicans. They are the ones who support this drug war which has ruined Mexico. THey are the ones who start wars in the Middle East and spawn groups such as Al-Queada and The Taliban. They are the ones responsible for China becoming the greatest country on the face of the earth. They are the ones who could care less about impoverished Americans and are more concerned with keeping the wealthy rich.
I Pray for Obamas soul, how will he feed the children?
Hemp
Hope & change? All I see is more of the same. You claim you want to be the first ‘green jobs’ president, in a green economy, why does your administration continue to oppose American farmers growing industrial hemp. Governments in Canada, France and China allow their farmers to prosper from industrial hemp cultivation, why not American farmers? Again President Obama:
Hope & change? All I see is more of the same….
im sure marijuana will be the #1 question again, and im sure he’ll blow it off just like the last time… fucking bastard
before the marijuana prohibition hemp was used for over 150,000 textile products in America, legalization could help us with our debt to other countries, and be a big revenue for our country itself.
Support the cause, go green!
We already know what will happen. Youtube will pull ANY cannabis realated questions before Obama sees them.Thats exactly what happened the last time and i’m sure Youtube still answers to the same masters.
And do we think that he is not going to just make another joke about online audiences? Followed by a snarky comment in which he will again claim legalization is not good for America. No matter what his personal views are, he is going to oppose legalization in order to be re-elected. Cannabis support cannot win anything with medical and economic arguments, its a matter of personal freedom. Cannabis and its users will continue to be demonized, due to ignorance, intolerance, and the motivations of money and power.
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Looks like we have an overwhelming response for marijuana reform again. I hope and pray Obama doesn’t chuckle it off this time. We as a nation NEED marijuana reform, because 38 seconds is a horrible thing to grasp. In contrast that means every minute or two we are busting ONE VIOLENT criminal versus the 3-4 NON-VIOLENT marijuana consumers we are busting in the same time frame.
It should be interesting to see what our President has to say about it. I am sure he is being coached on just how to answer such questions. If he answers them at all. He may just ignore them all together or worse laugh about it.
Looks like it takes up the first 3 pages of most popular questions. This will be interesting to see how to squirms his way out of this one..
He will Just laugh at us again, however it will let him and the rest of government we will not go away. Just remember less than two years away, Ron Paul, He hasn’t annonched yet but, He believes it’s just not the governments place to tell you what you can put in your bodies.
I did not Vote for you, but a policy shift in your administration to legalize Medical Marijuana for medicinal purposes and even for recreational use would get you a second term Guarenteed! Open your eyes world, The “Green Rush” is upon us! I am not a pot head, I have Chrones Disease and terrible Acid Reflux. “Smoking weed” (although will be harsh to your lungs like ciggarette/cigar tabacco) is the past, Vaporize it (recommended). Many delicious recipes for cooking with cannibis. Also it was recently discovered that cannabinoid receptors in our brains are of major interest to medical researchers. Very exciting times we live in. I personally would debate the importance of this issue with any opposer on earth. Because They are wrong. LEGALIZE NOW PLEASE. Regards Vinny Bucaro of Chicago
Mr. President,
I am a professional in American who would like a clear answer to our current Administrations lack of attention to a fact that a number of American Voters would like to see reform of marijuana laws. Why are you not championing a cause just as pertinent as Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in the military? Why will not take up the cause of Americans who are unjustifiably discriminated against each day by de jure discriminatory drug laws? Why do you not help by pushing the same legal rights for people who use medical marijuana, as do oxycodone or morphine sulfate?
Sincerely,
A concerned teacher who never users marijuana
Ignore us some more Obama. Brush us off. Stigmatize us. LAUGH at us some more. We’ll be sure to return the favor in November 2012 – fucking retard.
Let my people go.
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President Obama,
Assuming you would not have wanted to obey a law that would have enslaved you for the color of your skin, how can you justify incarcerating peaceful people today for the “crime” of self ownership of their own body by choosing to consume cannabis?
People keep flagging the marijuana questions because they have determined them to be “inappropriate”
President Obama believes that everyone here is a joke.
WHY in an era where there are endangered species being added to the list daily, are you spending billions of our tax dollars trying to make a plant like marijuana extinct?
To the powers that be:
I do not smoke nor do I drink. I am a white collar worker and an asset to the community I live in. I am a loyal highly productive employee and an all around family man. I work hard just like so many others. Many people in the United states partake in legal recreational products after a hard weeks work to unwind; I unfortunatley have no such product to help disperse such tentions. I would like to smoke Marijuana “OCCASIONALLY” but will not risk my life and livelyhood. What bothers me is that all unbiased scientific data clearly shows Marijuana is far less dangerous than the said above legal drugs. I understand the political implications of taking a stance on this but to continue to enforce such a out of date mindset is foolish and it enforcement hurts American far more than it helps.
I am a 50 year old man and I do not appreciate my government putting restrictions on my recreation drug of choice especially when the drug I would use “if aloud” held far less dangerous outcomes than the legal counterparts.
Just doesnt make any sence at all.
Thank you
Forget the legalization question for now, too soon.
INSTEAD…
Concentrate on getting marijuana off schedule 1 which is possible and then decriminalization can be possible nationwide.
Baby steps, there’s too much political pressure.
Yet another online questionnaire where ending Cannabis Prohibition is and will remain at the top. Should anyone be surprised? No.
Will he actually address Cannabis-related questions? In my opinion its doubtful, but if he does, I am predicting he will spend 10 seconds dodging the question instead of answering it (just like he did the last time).
Oh well, sooner or later he is going to have to face the fact that nearly half of the American public wants to see an end to Cannabis Prohibition and if he continues to ignore the will of the people he will definitely feel it in the polls come 2012.
The FEDS consider themselves the MORAL MAJORITY of the way we think-speak and what we ingest in our bodies. The facts about marijuana in their faces but the government is still in denial. The only question Obama needs to be asked is WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO END MARIJUANA PROHIBITION? I don’t need twenty seconds to ask a question like that. His answer would be LET THE STATES HANDLE LEGISLATION of MARIJUANA LAWS. If the question does pop up can he say the words MARIJUANA or CANNABIS.
If I thought the Green or libertarian parties stood a chance, then I’d say vote Obama out in 2012. The truth of the matter is that a Republican will be much worse for cannabis reform. The change is going to happen at the level of congress and the senate (state and national), that is where cannabis reformers need to vote in support. This country has a failed democracy, because most people do not vote. What is it usually, less than 25%? I’ll be the first to admit I have been part of that problem, but you can bet I’ll be registered for 2012.
How are we going to get any change, when we are not taken seriously? How are we going to gain support, as the school system keeps cramming anti-cannabis propaganda down the students’ throats? Drugs are bad, and they will kill you or ruin your life…oh and yeah alcohol does the same, but you can use that responsibly. And what about cannabis? I personally am at a loss.
Mr. President, how is it that you got away with smoking lots of marijuana and became president, while my 16 year old nephew got busted for marijuana possesstion and now he won’t even be able to get a student loan, or get a job, let alone become president?
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Mr. President, how is it OK that you got away with smoking lots of marijuana and became president, but my 16 year old nephew got busted for marijuana possession and now he won’t even be able to get a student loan, or get a job, let alone become president?
He’ll shoot any question on this topic down as he’s done before. He said himself back in ’04 that he supported decriminalization, but he won’t say anything like that now. He’s about to start gearing up for his run at a second term and that would just upset too many prohibitionist voters. Typical politician. Just say whatever you must to stay in office.
My question to President Obama would be:
President Obama you obviously have done very well for yourself being a former cannabis user. Have you ever thought about what your fate would have been if you have been caught and prosecuted for felony possession? Why don’t you use your powers of presidential directive and take Marijuana out of the Controlled Substances Schedule and allow for what the AMA and other organizations are asking — the ability to do further studies on cannabis to bring to the forefront what even our founding fathers knew, that Indian hemp is a safe and efficient medicine for a variety of ailments.
Also what were you thinking letting Michele Leonhart continue on at DEA? Do you ever read their website and all the destruction they are bringing down on their fellow Americans? Guess not because she’s stepping up her raids on medical marijuana states dispite your call over a year ago to leave these states alone.
In California 47% of us voted to legalize. That is no minority. A large percentage of those who voted use Marijuana. Are we criminals? Is that not a police state? When will we look past the propaganda created by Harry Anslinger, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagon? When will look at the truth about the effects of marijuana on the human body compared to alcohol and tobacco? There is evidence in the medical community that proves this hypocrisy. Look at the Donald Tashkin studies out of UCLA (funded by the gov.) as well as the recent Harvard studies on how cannabis slows and inhibits tumor growth. We’ve got a long way to go still.
My take on Obama is that, personally and intellectually, he would be for legalization of marijuana, but is afraid to take a political risk. He fears that he would lose the support of those that still favor Prohibition. And there are quite a few, a majority in some states, it seems. However, just because Obama’s hands are tied by political considerations does not take him off the hook. It will be interesting to see how he squirms his way around these pointed questions. Prohibition is morally and intellectually indefensible, he knows it, and he’s going to have to obfuscate in order to dodge the question.
The marijuana questions are being flagged as “inappropriate” and being removed… Even if this was the most often asked question, Obama would simply laugh it off anyways, along with others in the audience as he did last time. This country is never going to change. Most Americans are just too ignorant / brainwashed with gov propaganda to support this issue.
Interesting. I see that the “Google” moderator has removed 90+% of all marijuana related questions on youtube.com/askobama. So much for a democratic process.
obama’s not a real democrat, he is a democrat in name only (dino).
that’s why we’re starving and losing our houses, and our jobs, while the billionaire bankers got big bail-outs, and still are getting billion-dollar bonuses.
that’s why he is so eager to ‘compromise’ with the repubs.
just like clinton gave us nafta (which took our jobs overseas!) and took away banking regulations, (glass-stegal), allowing the ‘bankers gone wild’ to rip us off.
democrat in name only (dino).
a real democrat would have pushed for single-payer health care, like the civilized countries have.
a democrat in name only (dino), so don’t expect much.
(recent real democrats; JFK, killed, and Carter, ‘killed’ economically by ‘the fed’ messing with interest rates)
Looking good so far! Ranked by popularity the first 300 or so questions were all about marijuana reform! As long as everyone in the cannabis community works together and continues to vote them up, I don’t see how the president can possibly ignore such an outcry.
Go vote and be sure to pass the link on to everyone in your circle!
http://www.youtube.com/worldview
I wound up posting this:
Mr Obama, the war on cannabis was based on a racist lie. Why do you support it?
@32 – It looks to me like a very large number of marijuana related posts have been deleted. I wonder if the person(s) deciding whether a question is appropriate or not is a prohibitionist.
for the life of me i can not figure why this is still an issue. the revenue being lost and the dollars being spent on prosecution are ridiculous. do i expect any change? well maybe we wont get laughed at this time, but that is it. or will we be in for a suprise…lol
Both parties are a joke. None of them listen to a word the people have said. We have a wayward government it is not for the people, it dosen’t care about the people.
It looks like theyre systematically removing all the question about marijuana despite its popularity.
i posted it like this……
Wouldn’t finally legalizing marijuana in America end the terrible Prohibition-related violence in Mexico. If not, why not? You said you wanted to decriminalize marijuana before your presidency, WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT LIE?
Also…..
Go to http://www.topix.com/issue/marijuana and vote in your city on the “Should marijuana be legalized” poll! Spread the word!
Mr obama… the people who want it legal are going to smoke it no matter what stupid laws you make so just make it easy on yourself… legalize it and end all the useless bullshit surrounding marijuana prohibition
Mr Obama… are you and your people actually taking this seriously or are you just trying to give pot smokers a sense of false hope?
Yeah, they’ll make sure these questions are flagged and moved down in the polls so Obama doesn’t have to see them. I can just imagine all those paid WH workers on the internet flagging any question concerning cannabis! Screw him and his liberal wooden horse he rode in on! Legalization won’t start at the Federal level anyway. It’d just be nice to see Obama have to read those questions afterwards and give it some rational thought (if that’s even possible any longer).
If it doesn’t help profit margins for corporations then it isn’t important. After all those are his main “contributors” now, not the lowly single family dweller.
RATIONALE.
God has given us the privilege and responsibility of “free choice – the gift of God’s love” We have the capacity and obligation to make the kind of choices that shape the world we are part of. It’s our “free choices” that make the world the way it is. But, “The more freedom is threatened, the narrower our margin of choice becomes.”
GENESISTS ARE UNDER OBLIGATION TO GOD WITH LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE.
The root of that obligation is the way we treat our fellow human beings with the inherent goodness of humanity and truth. “Truth” is lodged in the intrinsic foundation and depths of our souls. Genesists hold to the absolute natures of truth and justice. We are free to control our own humanity and truth, and any attempt to insult or discredit that inherent goodness and truth is reprehensible. Evil will always prevail [when] good people do nothing. “The Truth” – if – not abandoned, will triumph over “The Big Lie.” The truth has no agenda – the truth is simply the truth. “The truth will set us free.”
GENESISTS BELIEVE IN THE RULE OF CIVILITY AND CONSTANTLY PROMOTE AND ADVANCE RESPECT FOR OUR FELLOW MAN.
Therefore, Genesists [lawfully assemble] in our Faith, holding our Constitution as absolute. Our grievance as a “worldwide faith based community” is that government’s intransigent prohibition [taken to epic proportion without the slightest mitigation or capitulation] of our unalienable religious right, observance, rite, activity, or “free exercise thereof” is absolutely unacceptable as a rule of law, and is a violation of the goodness of creation. It is an individuals unalienable religious right, endowed by our Creator, to severally or collectively pursue happiness through free exercise of religious expression. Persistent attacks on our Constitutional rights, enforcement emphasis and police state tactics, best described as belligerent and arrogant action, based on Abusive Process and Malicious Prosecution, violates our First Amendment freedoms. Therefore, Genesists invoke a “Conscience Clause,” assert a “Severability Clause,” and promote “Nullification” of any law that prohibits our Holy Sacrament.
GOD HAS GIFTED HUMANITY WITH INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL FREEDOM.
The Genesist Faith recognizes two types of laws; just laws – and – unjust laws. Genesists have a legal and moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely – Genesists have a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. An unjust law, is no law at all. An unjust law, is a human law that is [not] rooted in eternal law, and natural law. Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. Our consolation is that prohibitionists of our sacrament will [if not already], by their own hand, lose humanities favor, and wear their transgressions on the bosom of their souls.
THEREFORE, THE GENESIST FAITH DECLARES:
To be ruled a certain way – to oppress our souls [which is to oppress God’s Spirit within], because it is – an unjust law of government [of man] – is forbidden by the Genesist Faith. “God forbids it!”
“He who resorts to civil disobedience obeys the laws of the state to which he or she belongs, not out of fear of sanctions, but because he or she considers them to be good for the welfare of society. But there comes occasions, generally rare, when he or she considers certain laws to be so unjust, as to render obedience to them, a dishonor. He or she then openly and civilly breaks them and quietly suffers the penalty for their breach.” Gandhi
DHARNA
The practice of exacting justice by sitting at the doorstep of an offender until the demand is granted.
Genesis the Faith Ventura, Ca. Colony
I just went and checked…looks like we are being gagged again.
If he gets elected in 2012 (and no longer has to worry about being elected again) we may get to hear his true opinion. Right now it is say whatever is best to get elected again…. In other words don’t touch this with a 10 foot pole
What the hell happened to the 20 continuous pages asking about Marijuana? They simply dissapered. Seems the president is opting not to answer the MOST POPULAR question!
dont kid yourself guys. states rights is the only way this is going to be legalized. also give it a 20 years + [how christian your state is] = when it will be legalized.
the feds will just fuck it up.
Youtube is flagging marijuana questions as inappropriate!
Research shows that cannabis may reverse Alzheimer’s. My dad is wasting away in a veteran’s hospital. He doesn’t recognize anyone in his family. If cannabis can bring him back to us, why am I denied trying? He wouldn’t have to remeber everything he did the day before, just knowing where home is would be fantastic.
Here’s the question I would like to ask:
“With the increasingly high number of pharmaceutical recalls and the announcement of the new billion-dollar federal government drug development center, will any further consideration be given to allowing the naturally occurring, non-toxic compounds in cannabis sativa to be used as a valid federally-acknowledged medicine?”
Here is where our current policy on Marijuana was born in the ’30’s:
“There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.”
—-Harry Anslinger of The Federal Bureau of Narcotics
Can we at least admit that a change is needed on the horizon?
My Question is this:
High schoolers have consistently stated that marijuana is easier to get than alcohol and tobacco, yet your administration continues to argue that the war on drugs keeps drugs away from kids. Why don’t we regulate cannabis like we do alcohol?
The questions will probably be filtered so you wont even be able to ask about pot
LOOK OUT! THE INTERNET TROLLS ARE COMING!!!
Don’t hold your breath. When we did this last time he insinuateed we were all potheads who had nothing to do but send in emails all day….Remember? It was THE number one askwed question…he dismissed it. Pot is THE political third rail..don’t hold your breath….unless you just took a hit. Save your seeds, hide your weed
http://i.imgur.com/9aDiO.jpg
Screen cap of top 50 most popular questions. All categories/most popular.
EVERY SINGLE ONE IS CANNABIS OR WAR ON DRUG RELATED.
It is now at like the first 3 pages of most popular.
Maybe the 3rd time is a charm and the prez will actually address the issue like an adult. I ain’t betting on it, but it would be nice.
My friend, why don’t we, as Americans, have the right to choose this God blessed medicine? Please, I will not vote for you again unless you make the decision to publically endorse it. I also pray that you personally switch from tobacco to this healthier alternative for the sake of your future and loved ones.
Looks like google is deleting any question about marijuana. Gotta love this country’s so-called “free speech”.
Obama will never decriminalize marijuana, or even discuss it.
The jobs and money that the war on drugs generates is much easier to fabricate, due to the system that already exists.
We have nearly 30 million laws in this country and law makers making new ones every day.
With every law written we loose a right or part of a right.
Like all Presidents since just before the 1900’s have answered to an elite group of families the most prominent, being the Rockafellers. Do a web search and find out for yourselves.
There was a man named Fiderich Nietzsche that set. The framework for our present form of government.
He divided the human race into what he called Masters and slaves.
Nietzsche promoted a society where a few elite aristocrats would
Govern in the shadows of a false front government where the slaves “us” would be reduced to a machine existence.
The banking industry is the one that benefits from the war on drugs.
The Rockafellers net worth exceeds 11-trillion US dollars. They own the largest bank in America ” J.P. Morgan Chase along with other large financial institutions.
The Rockafellers also own Exxon-Mobile petroleum.
They also own Barack Obama.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act
That link is the schedule 1 – schedule 5 controlled substance list. Marijuana is ranked in there HIGHER THAN LSD! WHY!?!
Please, go to http://www.youtube.com/worldview and sign in to YouTube
Type “marijuana reclassification” in the search bar and vote “like” on the questions you want the president to answer
I have a question. Why is the Government making Marijuana illegal in the first place? We the People should make our own decisions on what we put into our bodies….thats true freedom, isn’t it? I’ll tell you why…. By making something illegal the government can control people, by threating people with incaceration. and excess fees. which is amendment 8 in the Constitution. No excessive fees nor cruel and unsual punishment. people are getting several years and fined several thousand dollars. to me thats not respecting the Constitution of the United States of America.
To see my question, search the youtube.com/askobama site for the term ‘varietal’. Even if he doesn’t call for it, we will still demand it.
It looks like the top comments are still Marijuana related galore. I hate this war mongering, neocon, Bush-lite president, but I’ll give him a chance here. He is insane to alienate his base. Let’s see what he learned recently.
I sent in questions as well. Mine were Alcohol VS Marijuana and common sense. Marijuana clearly shown to wins every subject matter. Keep up the good work RUSS!!! Peace NORML PEEPS!!
“The Reformation”
Genesis I:29,30,31
Of course 59 12:07pm is the Genesist Faith’s post. Don’t know how that happened – but – it did. Duh!
in recent news;
Mex Drug Lord Thanks US For Keeping Drugs Illegal
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-henry-sterry/mexican-drug-lord-officia_b_179596.html
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The most popular question is still the one from LEAP.
i found this and id like to share it it was rather interesting to me
In an October 15, 2010 article, former Surgeon General of the United States, Joycelyn Elders voiced her support for legalization of marijuana:
“I think we consume far more dangerous drugs that are legal: cigarette smoking, nicotine and alcohol,” said Joycelyn Elders, the former surgeon general and a supporter of the measure. “I feel they cause much more devastating effects physically. We need to lift the prohibition on marijuana.”
From what i seen last night on the speech he dodged the question, although he said he would cut spending on whatever it was,he would cut. So Mr.Obama ya think the war on drugs might be in that catagory?
#74 its illegal because it would hurt major pharmisudical companies they even admited to it at least i think thy did i read it somewhere but i cant remember where
check popularity and you will not find one question about cannabis, i think they have a blocker on it to not have any on the top so obama doesnt neglect us again because they rigged the system to not value our questions. no matter what you do they will rig it to be their way. Maybe one day obama will be a man and actual do what he says he is going to do and actually answer the questions the people want to hear not what your websites allows you to read. Truth Will Prevail with or without you!
This submission has been deleted.
This submission has been removed because people believe it is inappropriate.
the marijuana questions are just being flagged and removed..
Good Luck Anyways!!
~IRISHMc
Yes, absolutely they deleted submissions!
That’s one way of making sure marijuana never becomes one of the top questions he answers. Everyone knows what kind of tactic that is on freedom of speech.
It sounds like you have the virus, you believe the msmedia, the hounds are howling, it is time to prepare.
Who voted for bigger prisons, who voted for bigger government, who voted for this police state, Ms Clinton, Joe Lieberman, Joseph Biden, and Obama.
when r u going to be nice for once i didnt vote for u i voted for mclain not u ok
Carter stated in the ’70’s that pot should be lagalized. Clinton and his Surgeon General felt the war on drugs was a failure and that legalization of cannabis was worth looking at. We know that Kennedy very well may have used it for his bad back. It is conjectured that Lincoln used it for his deppression. Both George Washington and Jefferson were hemp advocates and grew, yes this is true, we all know it now. And we know that you, Mr. President, used at one time. What is your honest opinion, sir, on the issue of productive members of society who are arrested for personal possession and use of cannabis?
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There is no way I can accept bigger government and higher taxes .
Cannabis, Legal/Ill-legal is a start.
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President Obama on Thursday called drug legalization “an entirely legitimate topic for debate,” but quickly added “I am not in favor of legalization.” my response is simply, Put Up or Shut Up Mr. President! The debate you claim is “an entirely legitimate topic for debate,” is long over due. We the People have been a……sking this Government to give us this debate and debate this issue like reasonable human beings. The government’s response has “shocked the sense of fair play,” they have openly lied and mis-informed the general public for since 1937. Mr. President we want this debate! We dare you to set this in motion and since you clearly stated, “not in favor of legalization”, you and your party should put up or shut up and defend Prohibition. We the People will bring it on, set the ground, we’ll debate who ever you send. All we ask is that it be live and transparent to the public.
As a concerned citizen, I think the government must improve its efficiency. Britain has been wise and cut down their government, and it is time our government does the same. I love this country. But our government has become so large that it can not even sustain or manage itself. It is time to cut the fat. I think it is good for government to supervise the workings of our economy, to regulate interstate commerce, and our defense with wisdom and fair judgment, but our federal government is putting a huge financial burden on America’s small businesses .
Look at all the businesses that have died in the last two to three years, and all the rest who are hanging on only because they were willing to cut down staff, take cuts in salaries, and cut overhead. How can congress, who is supposed to be a servant of the people, give themselves a cost of living increase when the rest of Americans are suffering? It is time for government to take some of the financial burden by cutting staffing and unnecessary programs.
The solution to our deficit problem according to Ralph Nader is, “The first thing you do is you get rid of corporate welfare. That’s hundreds of billions of dollars a year. The second is you tax corporations so that they don’t get away with no taxation. The Citizens for Tax Justice put out a report recently. They had 12 major corporations, like Honeywell, Verizon, General Electric, and in three years, they made $167 billion in profit, paid zero tax, and got $2.5 billion back from the Treasury.” Who paid them this $2.5 billion; we did.
Large corporations and companies that use our roads, are protected by our military and have access to our markets should pay their fair share of U.S. taxes. These companies, known as inverted corporations, grow their business in the United States and establish a nominal presence in a foreign country for tax purposes. Right now remaining loopholes within our laws permit profitable companies to legally skip out on their taxes and shift their tax burden to America’s taxpayers and responsible businesses already facing tough times in this economy.
Scott Klinger, tax policy director of Business for Shared Prosperity stated, “It’s obscene to put everything from the Small Business Administration to Medicare and Social Security on the chopping block while corporate tax dodging deprives us of major revenue. Today, large corporations as a group contribute just nine percent toward federal government bills – down from 32 percent in 1952,” . . . “It’s time to plug the trillion dollar hole in the U.S. Treasury from tax haven abuse.” Social Security is not an entitlement, as some have stated, but money owed by our government, which we the people entrusted to them for our retirement. If Americans are to trust their government, then the U.S. must pay everything it citizens have put into the system. Our trust must be restored.
Small businesses and the middle class are the lifeblood of local economies. We pay our fair share of taxes and generate most of the new jobs. However, the big companies who move their capital offshore to hide it from taxation in the U.S. still demand subsidies and benefits from taxpayer-funded programs. Who pays for all of this—the American workers. Government cannot give to anyone what it has not taken from someone else.
“WASHINGTON Today” back in 2007, cited $100 billion in revenue drained from the U.S. Treasury at the expense of honest, hardworking American families who pay their fair share, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., and (then) Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., introduced comprehensive legislation to stop offshore tax haven and tax shelter abuses.
I believe America will suffer for all its legalistically selfish approach of self gratification and materialism. But if we can earnestly seek to care for one another and take a stand for moral growth, then we can leave this life a better human being and leave behind a better and stronger America.
Your office is my last defense to keep America noble, free and strong, and it is my hope you will make every effort to get us ‘out of the ditch’. I would like you to take a long look at the revised Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act, just introduced by Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Kent Conrad, D-N.D. This bill is designed to stop the use of tax havens and encourage large U.S. corporations to move back home.
Thank you for your time,
K.B.Cooper, D-CA
Doesnt marijuana have to contain a certain amount of THC before it is on the Controlled Substance List? Isnt it the male plant only that may contains the amounts of THC that make it illegal?
[Paul Armentano responds: No. The cannabis plant (excluding the stalks) is schedule I. The plant’s specific organic cannabinoids are also listed as schedule I substances, regardless of whether or not they are psychotropic (e.g., CBD).]
Did not the differences over marijuana stem from the same controversity that tea endured a fair trade dispute? The disputes are always about imports and the popularity of whatever is being disputed. If Sugar were an import and the public liked it would it not go on the controlled substance list. What about Coffee might it some day be added because of the Hype it causes if intake is abused. It is not fair that staged controversity makes consumed foods seem BAD for us in a attempt to have them controlled by the Food and Drug Administration and eventually called a drug which will become even more expensive to obtain. How would you like to pay for a doctor visit and the enormous price paid for controlled substances to have sugar for your tea and coffee. But of course if you are one of those people who opposes imports like coffee and tea you probably dont do tea or coffee much less sugar. Bad behavior could be associated with a lot of foods consumed in abusive amounts. People are already gathering evidence to show how hyped behavior in children is associated to candy. How would you like to pay a doctor visit and an enormous price for candy. You get my point. The food and drug administrationh has already run up the cost of Food and Drugs. Like I said all one must do is likeit and the demand for it rises and someone consumes it in an abusive amount and tons of money will be spent seeking reasons why it should go on the controlled substance list. Then it will be controlled and prices will soar. What about Salt. If consumed in abusive amounts it can cause high blood pressure or even stroke. So where does it stop. Food and Drug Administation has far too much power over what foods and what drugs are abusive when it boils down to the consumer. Just like alchohol if consumed in moderate amounts is healthy but consumed in abusive amounts becomes harmful. There again people that dont use alchohol will run to the doctor and pay that visit and the enormous amount for cough medicines which contain what, Alchohol at about $5.00 an oz. or ounce about the same price as a mixed drink and give it to their children. So where does it stop. I understand that Food and Drug Administration is there for a very good reason to make sure our food and drugs are safe and that is a very important job. I was just thinking about MAD COW disease. Comes up all the time by reports made possibly by some one who wants to up the consumption of pork.Then the contamination of Tylenol done by someone on purpose. It is easy to give something a bad name when someone wants to. What was done to chicken farms and Egg farms. Done on purpose by someone. These are the abuses more than the over consumption of anything on the controll substance list. I am hearing that they have no studies on record for Marijuana so how did it get on the Control Substance List in the first place. It all began because of where marijuana supposidly came from and who was selling in this country. Again Imports versus homegrown or made in America. So Lets cut to the chase and control marijuana just like tobacco and alcohol and the U.S. will get their enormous tax just like they do on those controlled substance. Never mind the doctor visits and higher drug prices for Marijuana. Some people go to the doctor to control their intake on Salt and Sugar already. I prefer to get my Salt and Sugar in my food and have the Food and Drug Administration policing to make sure what we consume is Safe. It is just like fights over tea,tobacco,alcohol. It is about TAXES. So Let everybody get their share and get on with it. Medical Marijuana is going to be too expensive for the uninsured anyway. Do you want to pick up the tab for medical marijuana or let those that smoke pay the tax to cover the medical problems caused by overconsumption of Marijuana just like with alcohol and cigarettes. Of course do not forget to include the clause where marijuana can be grown for their own consumption just like alcohol and tobacco. No one can control what someone consumes. There are always going to be those who consume too much. Glutteny is talked about in the Bible. Speaking of the Bible and the original laws on Marijuana,Tobacco,Alcohol. These plants have been in this world from the very beginning and will always be here. So rules have been made for the overconsumption as a violation,as it should be. Driving while consuming and so forth. Now that law has extended to control consuming Brushing,Makeup,cell phones and Perscription Drug. Knew I would get around to that one. Consuming or having consumed Perscription Drugs before or while driving a motor vehicle. Doesnt that already take care of that problem as much as it has on alcohol. Some people will consume too much no matter what laws you make. So get on with it and dont waist all the money on these investigation for the abuse of marijuana. Just like alcohol on a case by case as to the abuse of alcohol. Some people drink moderately and some people cause problems. Just like candy,some children use candy without incident and some children will abuse the use and cause problems thus giving candy a bad name. Some people want to put that on the controlled substance list or outlaw candy all together to children. Rediculous get on with marijuana laws and tax.and produce it in the U.S. so it wont be on the Import List which some people are already apposed to just for that reason. Lets stop the war on Marijuana. Just like any other war it cost billions of dollars. I am a accountant and finance is my thing and I can tell you that every time the U.S. gets into trouble financially it is because of the fighting and wars. Lets compromise and tax. and distribute with regulations marijuana in this country so it can be regulated so consumers will know it is in an amount that is safe for Consumers.
I still would like to know if just the male marijuana plant is on the control substance list and what amount of THC is illegal. The drug THC is in food and now in a pill and so those are the people who want to contol marijuana as a drug and not as an Herb as was in the beginning.
[Paul Armentano responds: Please see my previous response to your question. To follow up, synthetic THC is schedule III. Organic THC, or any other organic cannabinoids in the plant, is schedule I.]
Do you have a copy of the Chart of the Control Substance, Marijuana. I have seen one and on that chart it was specified as to the amount of THC in Marijuana. It was shown to me by a police officer years ago and to my recollection it stated “Male Marijuana Plant” Can you show me the Chart where it supports your response?
What date was Marijuana made illegal? Why? With what evidence? and by whom or thru what process? When was it put on the controlled substance list and Why? With what evidence?
Cocaine is illegal and is a controlled substance made from the cocoa leaf. So is chocolate made from the cocoa Leaf. Is it not a food. I guess someone abused the use of cocaine and it was put on the list. oh lord there goes our chocolate and of course it will be outlawed to children. Where does this end.
Then there is meth. made from what? Food? The regulation of is what is important. Of course someone will abuse the use of FOOD no matter form it takes,alcohol,drug, or steak dinner.
What about Tea. Ever see anyone misbehave mbecause they have consumed too much SWEET TEA.My Grandfather refused to have sweet tea in our house. He said it made my Grandmother misbehave and she wanted to stay up all night and that was not okay because she had to send us to school in the early morning. Tea was the controversity in our house not alcohol or marijuana but the war was the same. It devided my family for years untill the compromise. My grandmother put that pitcher of Tea on our Sunday Dinner Table and stated a pitcher of Tea would be on our table every Sunday from now on in moderation and early enough not to interfere with our nights rest. If violations existed such as staying up all night or bedwetting the TEA would be removed. There were no violations and my grades improved and my overweight grandmother dropped 30 LBs. I was a little overweight and I slimmed up. Some would consider that to be a drug since it changed sleep patterns and changed weight not to mention it helped with my being alert in school and not to mention it elevated the moods of all our family members. It is a mood elevator. But the main reason the mood was elevated was because the war on TEA was compromised so everyone was happy. No bad behavior was exibited so it was not put on the control substance list. But it was still taboo in many families even though the TEA PARTY started many many years before. The Mood was up just like the mood of America will be up when the compromise on Marijuana is in effect. Much too much time and money and lives have been lost to the war on Marijuana. So I appeal to you for humanity sake,Please stop this senseless war over marijuana when we know it is a control issue. Who will control Marijuana. Just like TEA it will be controlled in the home.