From Politico:
President Obama clarified his position on medical marijuana in an interview with Rolling Stone, telling publisher Jann Wenner that he can’t “nullify congressional law.”
“What I specifically said was that we were not going to prioritize prosecutions of persons who are using medical marijuana. I never made a commitment that somehow we were going to give carte blanche to large-scale producers and operators of marijuana – and the reason is, because it’s against federal law. I can’t nullify congressional law,” Obama said.
“I can’t ask the Justice Department to say, ‘Ignore completely a federal law that’s on the books.’ What I can say is, ‘Use your prosecutorial discretion and properly prioritize your resources to go after things that are really doing folks damage.’ As a consequence, there haven’t been prosecutions of users of marijuana for medical purposes,” Obama said.
Obama also said in a late night TV appearance Tuesday on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, that he didn’t expect Congress to change that law: “We’re not going to be legalizing weed … anytime soon.”
Weed is already legal. Just because the corrupt politicians say a plant is illegal, it doesn’t make it so. They can pass a law to roast children on the whitehouse front lawn, but that does not make it legal. There is no constitutional amendment banning weed, as there was needed for alcohol prohibition.
Obama has turned out to be the biggest presidential fraud in American history. I wish I would have lived in Canada the last four years.
We’ve got almost HALF the country allowing medical marijuana…congress and the feds are going to have to throw their hands in the air sooner or later and give up…you cant say no to a WHOLE country.
he said “I can’t nullify congressional law,” did he not run his whole election campaign on “change”? there is no legit reason he can’t push congress in the right direction
He is right! People need to take the constitution tests over and learn about the 3 branches of Government
An un-Constitutional Law is not a law…
Well I better get the hydro fired up. Keep it illegal and there is money to be made and all that cash is TAX FREE!!!
Folks are going to buy it, legal or not…
He has to do what he has to do… in election year with this country faceing the chalenges it has recently, to worry about stuff like this is trivial. He is doing his best with the appropriate balance of power.
So forgive me if Im wrong, but cant the President essentially pressure the DOJ to de-schedule Cannabis? Isn’t that the easiest way that the Presidential Administration could remove Federal penalties for Cannabis? Obama is a constitutional scholar, its kind of disingenuous for him to pretend that he has no power.
[Paul Armentano responds: Scheduling is controlled by the US Health and Human Services administration and the DEA.]
Please don’t let his small words distract you from the issue. We are winning and he knows it so he is trying to make it sound like he’s compromising. He doesn’t understand we are way past only medical now. The people have spoken and they want full legalization. Obama says it won’t happen but can he ignore a vote if it came back with over 3/4 of the population against him? And now it is just starting to be talked about. We have intersting months ahead.
It’s because that sack of shit and all of his fuck face friends make money off of it being illeagal.
@Sarah D. : I agree with your outlook, however … “You cant say no to a whole country” ??? You pay taxes right? Have you seen them DECREASED? Apparently they can thro a big fat NO at us whenever they want.
First of all freedom1776… What planet do you live on where you don’t think marijuana isnt illegal. It doesn’t have to be banned in the constitution to make it illegal ..ignorance at its finest
And even if the whole country passes state laws legalizing cannabis, the government can and probably will still consider it illegal
Ass you can see that any person that becomes a leader in this country is a brown noser first before they become leaders then they become ass puppets rich people run this country and if any body who gets elected as a leader has to listen and do what they are told to do from that 1%. Thats why every body that gets elected never changes any thing.
Fuck you obama! You could help introduce a bill about it to help the people out but you don’t cause your in bed with the cartels or leading your own, fuck you you soulless whore
“”As a consequence, there haven’t been prosecutions of users of marijuana for medical purposes,” Obama said.”
So has the federal government been busy prosecuting users of marijuana for recreational purposes?
What was the point of promising “not to circumvent state laws” if users of all stripes are too small-fry to be on the feds’ radar?
Obama is not being honest. He can appoint a new secretary of health and human servives who can reschedule cannabis. The process of scheduling is spelled out in the controlled substances act.
@Freedom1776
That word, legality, I don’t think you understand what it means.
So its wrong for him to tell the justice department to lay off the medical marijuana users and producers because it goes against federal law, but it is perfectly fine for Justice department to not enforce the federal illegal immigration laws. Sick and tired of politicians picking and choosing what laws they want to be enforced while using the excuse that they cant pick and choose what they want to follow when it comes to something like this.
I will not be voting for Obama anytime soon…
Obama/Uncle Sam may not be about to legalize the good herb, but “we the people” are!!
Just another example of how out of touch our so-called “representatives” are. What do you expect? These people (Obama included) work for Pfizer, Exxon Mobil, Phillip Morris, CCA, and others … NOT US.
It’s amazing that they could do that for alcohol with the 21 st amendment. It’s ok for alcohol tho the politicians love their man made alcoholic drinks that they blame for their unruly behavior hit and runs affairs and a slew of other things. How many fights, dui accidents and overdoses come from alcohol each year? U never hear of a stoner smoked a joint and crashed into a bus full of kids no that’s the drunks…. My medication grows straight from the ground and I don’t need fda approval cuz I use it just like god made it…
wat a joke,i mean he is right that he cant act alone BUT he does hve an influience.my opinion is the only way weed will become legal is if the states start legalizing.once one state does it will domino down the rest of the states.the states together against the law is how it will fall
Ive had to drop out of college because I cant get enough marijuana. Its too expensive, due to prohibition. I cant function, really at all without cannabis. I wonder how many more Americans are in similiar situations? These drug laws are Horrible!
Well then, I guess I won’t be voting for you or any democrat/republican who will not stand up to end this insanely counter productive prohibition anytime soon.
I’m voting Ron Paul and libertarians if a suitable democrat can’t be found. By the way, I’m NOT throwing away my vote, you are.
Legal or not I’m still going to smoke it. Obama won’t get my vote this time. Looks like I’m writing in Ron Paul for that “Change” Obama was so adamant about in his last campaign. The GOP needs to wake up and choose him if they want to win. Too bad he won’t let go of the war against women or he would have more support.
Concerning the above mentioned statement that the government can’t make something illegal absent a constitutional amendment; you are wrong. In fact, the government can make a lot of things illegal without a constitutional amendment; i.e. there is not amendment saying heroin is illegal, but it is.
All that said, it is not up to the federal government to legalize, the only thing congress & Obama can do is to rid of federal law making it illegal. Once that it gone, it then is in the individual states hands.
Example:
While some think if the health care law is found unconstitutional, that means that it cannot be implemented; and that is far from the truth. Even if deemed unconstitutional for the federal government to implement, states can, and have (see Mass), implement a program requiring all residents of the state to purchase health care.
Marijuana is similar. It is up to the states to make legal; once states do it, at that point the federal government will rid of their law.
The driving force for the legalization of weed will never be the federal government, it is up to the states. As more and more states make it legal for medical purposes, and hopefully soon for general public use, the federal government will eventually follow.
STOP WASTING EFFORTS trying to change the federal law. Concentrate on your state, that is the only hope for full legalization
What medicine grows all over the world, used to be the most common cure for a headache, helps people with severe chronic pain, kills cancer cells, is legal in 17 states, yet can get you life in prison in Oklahoma?
So how do you change federal law thats on the books?
Sounds like we need to shift our voting to Ron Paul. At least he has a SENSIBLE out look on drugs– especially marijuana.
What doesn’t he get? “As a consequence, there haven’t been prosecutions of users of marijuana for medical purposes.” He really said that, go after everybody but the users hurts the users just as much… they have to go to the black market or can’t get their medicine at all!
FTFedsFOREVER!
Of course he can’t nullify congressional law, but he can take a stand for something right and true! What a lame excuse.
And we’re not going to be voting for Obama anytime soon.
I agree with Dylan K. Obama has turned out to be the biggest fraud but he’ll probably still get re-elected. If he means Congress has to change the law, then he should say so. Obama’s become so out of touch thanks to his handlers. Yeah, we can choose between two presidential candidates who are out of touch with the people, totally Not “volksnah!” Long live the elite and sheltered out of touch! Long may they live! I toil to fulfill their cravings for power, wealth and luxury! Yippee! My only purpose in life is that their will be done on earth.
Ahem! Wait a minute! Vote all the bums out!
That’s just the problem is they can and they will because it’s not about cannabis. It’s about hemp and the logging industry. Hemp would put the logging industry out of business. It all boils down to $$ and certain individuals have $$ invested in campaigns for politicians to ensure they get their way. The system is so corrupt that it will probably never become federally legal and the same crap will continue.
Why is it still illegal at all, everyone can see how many sick people it is helping, if you want to regulate it, then regulate it, but remove the stupid law
What the pres fails to mention is the fact that he can change the schedule of marijuana without congressional approval… there is no reason for a plant with no toxic side-effect, and well documented medicinal value to be schedule 1…
I can’t believe I just got this stupid email from Obama saying marijuana is too dangerous to make legal because people like to smoke it.
I sent him a personal note saying this is a human rights issue and since marijuana does not contain poisons people can ingest how they see fix. If we want to grow and sell pot, it is his job to get behind us and help us out. Not jail people on some flakly, well “smoke is bad for you” bullshit. So is being arrested for no good reason!
You know, I have a real strong feeling that He wont win 2012 election because of this. I think many people voted for him in 2008 just because of the legalization idea right?
Ok then I guess I am Voting Romney even tho I hate him. I just hate Osama more.
No he can’t nullify a law. But he CAN encourage the DEA to reclassify marijuana and remove it from the Schedule I list. This would then free up the FDA and states to regulate it’s use.
Obama lost my vote. Gary Johnson for prez!
Lets just all band together and not pay our taxes. All they do is waste it on hookers and other corrupt pursuits. If these guys dont start listening they are gonna have a million man army of rifle packing rednecks on their doorstep.
I just emailed the President for the 3rd time this month to tell him that I’m withholding my vote unless he changes his mind. Please do the same and make the most passionate argument you can in favor of legalization. He can lead the way on this issue, or he can hide behind his desk and say it’s Congress’ job.
Simple solution is vote all those people out. Problem is too many people won’t stand up and act. Any jury I am ever on where cannabis is the crime I will try my best to not allow a guilty verdict. Every time I vote I vote for someone who represents my views. I will be voting for Ron Paul. If everyone who wanted our government to legalize weed voted for Ron Paul he would be our next president and we would have it done. Vote for Obama or Romney and we will stay the same.
I find it hilarious that Obama has been trying to court the young voters when he refuses to even consider what they want – an end to this destructive prohibition!!!
@Dylan K… Canada would not have served you any better as we have CONservative Steven Harper to deal with and he is NOT cannabis friendly. He is messing with what little medical marijuana laws we already have. It is almost impossible to get a doctor to sign for an exemption. They are advocating for only government licenced growers who grow inferior product to grow and anyone else is arrested under mandatory minimum jail time for anything over 5 plants.
He lies through his teeth. Obama should be thrown in jail for breaking his oath to the constitution on several occasions. Its people like him that make me wanna leave america for good!
Here’s my take on it. He’s officially against it (even though he knows it’s stupid) but this seems to be a coded way of saying if you want it legalized, contact your legislators but I’m not going to officially endorse it.
Obama is a big fat liar!
HE has chosen to ramp up the war on drugs in ways nobody else has ever dared. Recently, at a high priced fund raiser, he lied to the whole room full of donors. When challenged by Barney Frank, Obama claimed his DOJ was allowing dispensaries to operate freely.
BS!
In November, vote for the “NOT OBAMA candidate”. If that’s Romney, so be it. Anything but this AH.
@freedom1776: You keep using the word “legal,” but I’m not sure that you know what it means.
“As a consequence, there haven’t been prosecutions of users of marijuana for medical purposes”
NORML, please reply to his obnoxiously arrogant lie and remind everybody of how this is blatantly not true.
Guys just have to say hope all you who voted for this guy are happy? Also hope all of you who did not vote for Ron Paul are happy when you have Dumb and Dumber to vote for in our 2012 election.
“As a consequence, there haven’t been prosecutions of users of marijuana for medical purposes”
NORML, please reply to his obnoxiously arrogant lie and call him out for daring to say something so blatantly untrue.
To change this law will take an act of Congress. The dip shits that voted Republicans into Congress should be ashamed. Republicans control Congress because they are the majority, so therefore— marijuana will not be legalized any time soon. The President is just telling the truth. That’s the ball game folks. Another avenue is to promote medical marijuana and get approval of the FDA. Again, as you know, this is a Republican strong hold. So once again, can’t get anything done with that avenue because the Republicans will not allow the research to take place by the FDA. Again, —nothing the President can do about the Republicans blocking research of medical marijuana from the FDA. A bill came forward to allow research of medical marijuana by the FDA just a short time back, and who shot it down before it could be researched? Yep–Republicans cut the legs off of it before it could get approval by the FDA.So there you have it in a nut shell. The Republicans are blocking any and all actions from taking place that has anything to do with medical marijuana. The last but not least avenue is to keep legalizing medical marijuana on a state by state one by one until the numbers are too strong to ignore. Then—- Congress will have no choice but to act, and that will likely come when about 2/3rds of the states have legalized medical marijuana. The President is just telling the truth. The President has to abide by the laws on the books, and the Republicans are twisting his arm to do so. Therefore he must act or be charged of not upholding the laws. The Republicans are behind the Presidents actions. NOT THE PRESIDENT. If the Republicans point out laws being violated to the Justice department, then the Justice department must act if said laws are on the books———and they are on the books. To think the President can just jump up and declare marijuana legal,—-that would be political suicide. State by State is the avenue to take. It’s the only way it is going to happen. You want a faster way!!! Then Vote Democrats into Congress in 2012 and every election cycle after that until they are the super majority.
Well, prove it, Obama. Stand up for the dispensaries getting raided and shut down by the DEA. You won’t. You’re only saying this to excuse yourself from protecting those being wrongly prosecuted. In all reality you’re just making yourself look like a coward..
I’m hoping deeply that this is just pre-election fluff and a pander to moderates who still have Draconian views on the plant, and once reelected he would start acting on his real views and beliefs. But his pre 2008 election talk of stopping federal raids on dispensaries turned out to be just that.. fluff.
I believe him. Congress itself probably won’t legalize weed anytime soon…the thing is that the best case scenario I could see happening within a relatively short (I’m talking maybe ~8-20 years) would be a netherlands-type situation, where on the books weed may be ‘illegal’ since congress would, as usual, just kind of sweep the issue under the rug, kind of like how most uncomfortable issues work in national politics, but states would recognize it as legal and there would be little support for continued prohibition, and with no backing and minimal cooperation it would be difficult for the government to continue actively pursuing current cannabis laws.
That, of course, highlights another issue that I commonly think about; the disconnect between politicians and constituents. The fact that a large portion of the general public is now beginning to go ‘meh, weed should just be legal already’, while congress is saying ‘hell no’ is disconcerting, but then again I doubt I need to say any of this because anyone who’s even in the least bit familiar with this issue realizes full well the extent to which governing bodies often ignore the actual will of U.S. citizens.
When it comes to the debate of legalizing the herb all politicians, including Obama, seem to say is ” no its against federal law” I bet if you were to ask them other quetions you would get the same stupid response. Why is the sun bright? because its the sun, or Why is the sky blue? because its blue. Obama is a Currupt leader!!
BLAH BLAH BLAH, shut up already. No body cares what the government has to say anymore, I don’t give a crap what they think, I’m going to do what I want as long as I’m not hurting others.
As long as people vote for politicians who are Christian you can forget it! They are taught(brainwashed) by the church for years to control people, and to stick their nose in their private affairs.
Of course you can say “No” to a whole country.. Just ask Kim Jong Il..
“The herb that we have has been here in the land, since before the creation of man. For a little herb that grows wild and free they want to put man in captivity, it was something that was given for the use of man, and crafted by the FATHERS Mighty hand. For medication and meditation, it dont make no man go out and do wrong.” AFRIKAN SIMBA reggae artist “Free up the Herb”
the dominos will fall as individual states legalize it. C’mon Colorado, we’re counting on you for 2012!!!
Cause Dare worked great…
freedom1776, instead of a constitutional amendment, it was done by international treaty (single convention on narcotic drugs)
It’s a bit of a grey area, but congress is able to do things to implement treaties that the constitution doesn’t explicitly grant them the power to do. There was a recent supreme court case that was relevent to this. An informative writeup of how it applies to marijuana is at http://regulatemarijuanalikewine.com/analysis-of-bond-v-us-and-its-impact-on-federal-drug-law-enforcement/
Ron Paul for 2012, the man who wants to end the pointless incarceration of thousands, and has this zany idea of returning our government to it’s proper role, to protect the liberties of the people.
Actually in this one and only this one instance I do agree with obama, the Federal Government does not have the authority to Nullify Congressional Laws, but each of the individual States do have the authority to Nullify Federal Laws using the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution. Over 16 states have literally Nullified the Federal Prohibition of Marijuana, but they actually need to go one step further, the State Legislatures need to pass a State Law that makes it a State crime for Federal Agents if they attempt to come into a State that has passed Medical marijuana laws and raid either medical marijuana dispensaries, or private homes of marijuana users.
The State Legislatures haven’t done this as of yet, but I believe the time is coming soon when enough marijuana users complain to their State Legislatures that they need protection from the Federal Agents raiding their homes or dispensaries and charging these people who are harming nobody.
Remember, in order for a crime to have been committed two things need to occur,
1.Damage or harm to somebody.
2.Property damage has to occur.
If neither of these two conditions have been met then no crime has occured.
That also means that if a law is created that doesn’t have these two provisions in it, then the law itself is Null and Void of any legality. With no victim, there is no crime.
Well it would be awesome if they did something OTHER than making it illegal…i know for a fact alot of dealers will be out of a job….which is good cause that means they all now have to get a real job that pays taxes
So reamend the constitution ya piece of shit
Prohibition was a major reform movement from the 1840s into the 1920s
fucking commies
Go fig :/.
I caught this show last night, I was indeed caught by surprise by the first tweet question. Following after was just a disappointment.
Maybe 100 years from now it will be. I’ve lost all hope. I’ll still be purchasing off a dood with a 9mm on a corner of a street for my cannabis. Uh well :/.
Obama says “I can’t nullify congressional law” and yet this Janus has stated:
“If Congress refuses to act, I’ve said that I’ll continue to do everything in my power to act without them.”
“Barack Obama is setting up a direct confrontation with the U.S. Congress, proposing in his budget for 2013 that the U.S. taxpayers give almost $80 million to a United Nations organization that Congress has banned from receiving any of those funds.”
“In an effort to satisfy those arguing he needs to seek congressional authorization to continue US military activity in accordance with the War Powers Resolution, President Obama wrote a letter to congressional leaders this afternoon suggesting that the role is now so “limited” he does not need to seek congressional approval.”
“All in all, the White House’s agenda is clear. “I refuse to take ‘no’ for an answer,” Obama professed in a speech carried out earlier this year. “When Congress refuses to act and — as a result — hurts our economy and puts people at risk, I have an obligation as president to do what I can without them.””
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@skunkyfingers
Grow up man, what are you 15? President Obama has been the hardest on the war on drugs, and yet you still try to find a way to blame the republicans? Get your head out of your ass. Democrats get rich off of the war on drugs just as the Republicans do. The blame lays on all of them.
Yes, WE can!
negative free speech here…
In fact Obama *can* tell the Justice Department to stop enforcing drug laws because the Justice Department is part of the Executive branch of federal government. In fact the *only* branch of government that can Constitutionally be ordered to do anything at all are those departments and agencies within the President’s own Executive Department, even though Obama uses this order to dictate things wholly outside of the Executive Branch constantly in violation of the United States Constitution.
Let’s be honest people, Barack Obama does agree with the movement. The only thing he does not agree with are those who are abusing the marijuana collective as selfish capitalists, only in it for themselves and not contributing to the cause(Norml) to make Marijuana legal in other states.
Also I truly do believe that if we want to be taken serious as a community, we need to stop naming our marijuana into candy names like Purple Urple Kush, because let’s be honest if any one of us is standing up to a federal judge or congress to legalize marijuana trying to advertise Purple Urple Kush as something that can help these disease’s we will be denied. But maybe if it was called Purple Cure then maybe it can sway everyone who is against legalization and be more convincing to senators and governess.
Trust me people if anyone reads this or atleast spreads the word and makes the attempt at it, it could perhaps change the way marijuana is perceived.
Said this man was a loser from the start. Took a verbal beat down, now see that many have seen what I seen from the start. Suckers.
This election will be the second time I didn’t vote for Obummer
If the president is impotent when it comes to legalization of marijuana, we need to focus our efforts where it will count. Who are the top congressional prohibitionists? We need to bring a firestorm of emails, phone calls, TV ads, and smoke signals to their doorstep. Call them out, and make them defend this draconian policy.
It’s clearly a lobby from companies like Anheiser-Busch, The big medical indusrty, even cotton, that will not allow for marijuana to ever be legal. Just like it’s a lobby from big oil why we will never find an alternative energy source.
A lot of brainwashed propaganda in this thread.
Anyone who thinks a politician cares about the citizens or is honest is just as big of a degenerate scumbag as they are.
There should not be even ONE person in here sticking up for Obama or putting words in his mouth or thoughts in his brain.
You ll have NO CLUE as to what he is thinking or what he believes and your are ignorant to even think so.
He is bought and paid for by corporations, there is no more to it then that. He will do what they want him to do. He will say what they want him to say. He is no different than every other greedy f***head in our government. End of story.
What is most discouraging is that even a smart guy like Obama is succesible to the “Masterpiece in the art of brainwashing” marijuana prohibition has been.
PERHAPS IF SOMEONE CONFRONTED HIM IN A PUBLIC FORUM about how marijuana prohibition began with a LIE, remind him that he is black and that supporting this law that began with a LIE designed to enslave his own people makes him worse than a hypocrite.
Obama has a responsibility to his own race to end marijuana prohibition once and for all!!!
Actually he can do it, and already does it! anybody remember DOMA? We all hated it, and he stopped enforcing it. Done. That’s it. It was as easy as snapping his fingers.
Liars fools corruption bs… tired of this…
Aspartame MSG fluoride are poison.
Other possible cures, cell food (oxygen drops)
You body can repair itself when provided with the right stuff. Face it. its a satanic system.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SAY NO TO OBAMA!
SCREW OBAMA! You are biggest liar! You are really dumbest enough ever.
Hey everyone! please vote Ron paul! RON PAUL will legalize it, we should say no to Obama because he says no to us that what pay back to him, bitch!
I’m 100% for Ron Paul, but I want Obama out.
Nothing will ever persuade me to vote for Obama again, so I may vote for Mitt Romney.
I WILL vote for Ron Paul in the Texas Primaries.
Debra Medina for Texas 2014.
Liberty rules!
the whole reason weed got attacked in the whole “war on drugs” was because it was the only drug the president did have control over. remember the Jimmy Carter campaign?
I agree with you Jimmy come on people take a better look at Ron Paul he is your only hope he is your Obi-Wan.
I agree that you can’t blame the Republicans for this mess. The Democrats are just as bad (and I still am one, for now). We have Obama, Biden, Feinstein, etc. who are all rabid prohibitionists if you judge them by their actions. A California Democrat introduced legislation to consider anyone caught driving with any level of THC metabolites in their system to be driving under the influence. California has a Democratically controlled legislature and a Democratic governor, yet medical marijuana patients have no employment protection. They can be fired for testing positive for the medicine their doctor recommends they use.
What I don’t get is how Democratic politicians get away with this considering the latest Gallup poll showing that Democrats and “liberals” clearly support legalization. I think Republicans should jump on this as a state’s rights issue. They like to call themselves the party of small government and personal liberty. If as a party (not just Paul), they truly embraced their own philosophy, I would consider changing my affiliation. But, of course, they don’t have the guts. Romney will continue to come out in favor of the same draconian policies that Obama supports. I’m afraid that sanity on this issue is still a ways off.
BO BO BO spooks!
I just read the government’s stance on marijuana… Doesn’t the constitution say “We The People”?
Well said Skunyfingers, excellent post! When Carter was in office he wanted to legalize bud, he couldn’t. It takes congress people, that’s how the system works, it’s not one man behind the curtain, but many men, many many republican men.
I actually feel that he wants it to be legalized and thinks its retarded that so much money goes into fighting against it. There are people otherwise who own the three letter organizations that wont allow the legality of Marijuana unfortunately!
Lets all start a new government outside of this corrupt one..If we get enough people to support us we can bring this country back to what is should be.
It doesn’t matter that he can’t change it alone…no shit, thats not the point..don’t let him distract you with that. If he was a real man and a patriot he would say what he feels. All we’re asking is for a debate, just admit you know it should be legal..thats it, then you have your opinion..and as a leader of our country some people will take that opinion seriously and do some research..then they realize the law is flawed and wrong.
When will you ppl realize its US against THEM? Republicans arent going to fix it, nor are Democrats, or liberals or conservatives or any flavor above. Its all divide and conquer and this thread is proof of it. We ALL agree we would like some legalization of marijuana yet we continue to disagree as to who did what and what someone has done or not done to make it happen.. So, divided we FALL. Both parties have been in office at one point or another and neither has done diddly to advance what WE THE PEOPLE have clearly stated and the STATS show that even those who are not advocates, agree it makes NO sense to put someone in jail at an average cost of $40-60grand a YEAR for simple possesion or even dealing in small amounts. This being the case, we have to take from each lemon (government official) we squeeze what we can and continue to take babysteps forward if need be. I also am dissappointed in Obama and the ONLY reason I voted for him was because I thought, just maybe this black man will do something different then the many wealthy white men ahead of him did and make a stand. Well, I didnt count on him being so concieted and thinking he was the golden child and could make both parties play nice when he had the house and senate in his hands. Now that he doesnt, NOTHING is getting done, accept they are still collecting their checks, still getting cost of living increases and low and behold even were able to be friends long enough to pass a law that THIER kids do not have to pay back their student loans even! Wake up and smell the coffee ppl. Get out and VOTE for those who have the courage to say, ON THE RECORD that they oppose criminal consequences and ON THE RECORD that they dont actually agree with it, but, jailing ppl for it makes no COMMOM SENSE. When you sit here and birate ONE GUY and think he is the cause of all this and not the system thats broke (on purpose) then you show your ignorance and they have won.. again. BTW. I am long term pain management, am prescribed 120mg of methadone/day and 40mg of Hydrocodone and yet just recently my doctor who IS not against my self medicating with marijuana as it hasnt proven to be a problem in the 7yrs he has treated me, was just sent a letter by my comp carrier asking that I be urine tested. Since I have always been honest with MY doc, I told him it was a setup and he was naive and told me they were just looking for coke or heroin. I agreed to take it for HIM and that I would test pos for MJ. Well, I did, and next thing he knows, the Ins Carrier is pressing him on what he plans to do about my ILLEGAL use and poppin off article such and such of the National Pain Management guidelines and in short threatening his license if he doesnt take appropriate action. I am on day 14 of being “clean” so in another 30 days I can give him a “clean” test that shows ONLY my current hard core prescribed drugs. So, this while thing is near and dear to my heart. I have 2 kids in college another teen on the honor roll, been married for coming up on 30 yrs. Refused full disability and retrained for computers so I could show my kids I didnt need a hand out until I could REALLY no longer make a living. I do work for police depts, banks and lawfirms and have many good clients who work with me and my bad days.. Yet here I am, having to take a month off because without my little bit of smoke to help with nausia and deep nerve pain, I cant get it together enough to do much of anything.. so, please, if you can offer any info or GOOD advise, I would appreciate it. The only reason the Ins carrier did this, and by the way this is the second time, the first they were successful in getting me expelled from a diff doctor I was otherwise good with, is so they dont have to pay the small bill I cost them each month. I dont do a ton of doctors. Just the one I need to carry on with life, pain management. Once again.. its US vs THEM.. and anything other then that is but a diversion of whats important and does more harm to the cause then good. Keep it focused ppl and have a great day!
While Congress does need to get involved to “free the plant” and it’s users legislatively, the combined DEA / IRS raids that have occurred under Obama can be changed administratively. All Obama needs to do is to command, by Executive Order, that the DHHS & DEA follow 2 separate DEA Administrative Law judicial decisions that would shift cannabis (the plant) into the same or lessor CSA Schedule classification that Big Pharma has been granted for their synthetic THC “products” to provide relief for medical marijuana patients.
But for Obama to do that, he would have to be willing to surrender a close and mutually beneficial relationship with the Medical Industrial Complex and the Prison Industrial Complex. He would also be signaling to the Bankster Cabal that their free ride with laundering $100’s Billions of drug cartel profits per year. Obama is an authoritarian who is always trying to grab more Executive power, not yield any of that power back to We the People.
Obama needs to go — either by impeachment or by defeat at the ballot box. So does every Congressman and Congresswoman, Democrat or Republican, that continues to support cannabis prohibition AND the police state. They have all violated their oaths of office, willfully and repeatedly.
Shouldn’t be a legal anyways since Religions are Invovled. Its Freedom of Religion Right.And Technichally What does the Constitution say if the goverment commits treason
I think we all know that President Obama can’t, by himself, make marijuana legal. He could use his power to get the ball rolling in the correct direction. I am disgusted by his stance on this subject and feel betrayed; as I’m sure many millions of us that voted for him feel.
It is truly sad that the Republican party is just as bad or worse regarding ending this idiotic prohibition.
As I approach age 60, my hope for ever seeing justice and real freedom in America during my life is rapidly dwindling…
“Obama needs to go — either by impeachment or by defeat at the ballot box. So does every Congressman and Congresswoman, Democrat or Republican, that continues to support cannabis prohibition AND the police state. They have all violated their oaths of office, willfully and repeatedly.” David 572
Amen.. I couldnt have said it better. THAT is where the focus needs to be placed and in a unified way. Ousting JUST Obama wont do a thing. Romney will be no better and may not even concede the VERY little Obama has been FORCED to. The problem goes further then party lines and even beyond marijuana reform for that matter. The Police State that is happening on an alarming incline is what should scare the bejesus out of you and at some point we may loose the abilities we NOW have to unite and move forward on the issues. btw, sorry to have babbled on about my own problems, I just wanted people to know how to the heart this entire thing goes and give some perspective that there are some of us who’s quality of life and our families are truly at stake and its not just a matter of tokin up here.
The Supreme court wrote that, ‘the federal government is currently blind to the wisdom of medical marijuana, but this may change sooner than later’.
I take this as admission the supreme court *does see the wisdom* of medical marijuana and just wanted to pretend they don’t have the authority to send the law back to congress and have them fix it now. Failing that, declare it null and void.
Earn your money folks. Pretending marijuana isn’t important is a pipe dream. Do your jobs and provide for the people.
VOTE RON PAUL!!! When are you guys going to get it???? The only way he doesn’t get elected is IF YOU DO NOT VOTE FOR HIM! He is the only candidate you are likely to see in your lifetime that has stated plainly and clearly that THE DRUG WAR has to end, and that he would do everything in his power to end the federal war on drugs. Obama has shown that he wants to, and WILL CONTINUE to prohibit the American people from smoking Cannabis! The president has far more jurisdiction over drug policy than he would have you believe.
If you really do want to end the war on drugs, you need to do everything possible to help Ron Paul get elected!
Ps. If you want to understand where he really stands on the issue, and would like to know everything he has had to say about it, go to Youtube and watch a few of the videos people have put out. Many have Ron Paul speeches and interviews that will eliminate any doubts you may have about him, or his policies.
-Oz
Why not? Those are poor excauses and just a waste of time and money. then again tha’s the goverment, a waste of time. If you good make money of something and great jobs won’t you?
There’s no way he will work towards legalizing it during an election year. It can make him seem vulnerable toward mid-right leaning voters. I think there just MAYBE a chance that after the election is over, he will ease up on the federal crackdowns or maybe even use executive power to move it down to schedule II. Even if he doesn’t we really don’t have a choice, because what do you think Romney will do? According to him drug dealers are “Narco-Terrorists” and he may use the same rules for weed dealers and possibly users as he would for Al Qaeda and lock them up indefinitely without a trial. We can’t vote our way of this either. It has to be beaten like the Alcohol prohibition was by mass civil disobedience.
mass civil disobedience. i like it. so simple
Obama doesn’t care who’s live are ruin because they smoke a little weed. This great Nation would be out of Debt in a few years as long as our government don’t send our tax money to other Countries or for Illegalls. Now they go after Richard Lee in Oakland, CA who has done wonders for the City of Oakland. Wow!! Eric Holder, what a joke..if he worked for any company he would have been FIRED long ago. They don’t want to go after the real Threat. The Mexican Cartels or other illegal drugs. Why buy it from people that you don’t know where it is grown or packaged from the black market and keep them rich. Stay away from the synthetic pot products, too many people having bad experience. The Cannabis that is grown in Harborside is safe. Great organization, keep it going Steve.We the people need to end the Drug War. We vote the People in Office…there is over 75% of Americans that would want Cannabis legal for the people who are in PAIN & Suffering & then there’s Hemp that we can make rope,lamp oil, cloth to make clothes. There is so much farmers can do with HEMP. I don’t understand our Government the Money that could be Made with Hemp. George Washington, our First President grew it on his plantation. Why are w letting Canada grow Hemp and not us? We could have so many Jobs behind this. If we the Peolpe want to stand up for something, this should be One…plus drill in our own Country. We have so any resources here in America & our Big Gov’t is keeping this from us. I think they want us poor so we have to depend on them like Russia & China. I say HELL NO!! They want us hooked on those big pharm drugs like Oxycontin, Percocet, & other hard narcotics that will kill your kidneys & liver over time. I would rather smoke or eat cannabis for my pain then to have to fill my liver & kidneys with all those hard pain medications. We need to keep Cannabis users out of Prison. That is no place for people who just smoke the weed. Ty
Pres Obama can change weed from a schedule 5 drug to a schedule 2 drug without congress. That will give the states the right to allow and control it.
We’re not going to see marijuana legalized in the US in our lifetime. Just look at the war FDA is currently waging with tobacco now that it falls under their oversight. No new tobacco products have been introduced on the market in the last 3 years b/c other than whats currently on the market, everything else requires FDA approval first now. And guess who sits in control of the Centre for Tobacco Control at FDA…a bunch of anti-tobacco public health figures. So what makes any of you think that marijuana is going to get legalized?
Based on the unalterable proviso that drug use is essentially an unstoppable and ongoing human behavior which has been with us since the dawn of time, any serious reading on the subject of past attempts at any form of drug prohibition would point most normal thinking people in the direction of sensible regulation.
By its very nature prohibition cannot fail but create a vast increase in criminal activity, and rather than preventing society from descending into anarchy, it actually fosters an anarchic business model – the international Drug Trade. Any decisions concerning quality, quantity, distribution and availability are then left in the hands of unregulated, anonymous, ruthless drug dealers, who are interested only in the huge profits involved.
Many of us have now finally wised up to the fact that the best avenue towards realistically dealing with drug use and addiction is through proper regulation, which is what we already do with alcohol & tobacco –two of our most dangerous mood altering substances. But for those of you whose ignorant and irrational minds traverse a fantasy plane of existence, you will no doubt remain sorely upset with any type of solution that does not seem to lead to the absurd and unattainable utopia of a drug free society.
There is an irrefutable connection between drug prohibition and the crime, corruption, disease and death it causes. If you are not capable of understanding this connection, then maybe you’re using something far stronger than the rest of us. Anybody ‘halfway bright’ and who’s not psychologically challenged, should be capable of understanding, that it is not simply the demand for drugs that creates the mayhem; it is our refusal to allow legal businesses to meet that demand.
No amount of money, police powers, weaponry, wishful thinking or pseudo-science will make our streets safer; only an end to prohibition can do that. How much longer are you willing to foolishly risk your own survival by continuing to ignore the obvious, historically confirmed solution?
If you still support the kool aid mass suicide cult of prohibition, and erroneously believe that you can win a war without logic and practical solutions, then prepare yourself for even more death, corruption, terrorism, sickness, imprisonment, unemployment, foreclosed homes, and the complete loss of the rule of law and the Bill of Rights.
The only thing prohibition successfully
What does he mean he can’t change the law? He has told the Border Patrol to stop deporting illegal immigrants. THAT is in direct violation of a federal law
He hides Holder behind the vail of “privilaged information”.
Obama is breaking one law after another. If he wants to do something that is against an existing law, he just uses his executive privilage to shape the law to suit him.
Washington DC, a few blocks from Pennsylvania Ave., is opening medical marijuana dispensaries. Why are they so different than the rest of the country?
IM SO STONED RIGHT NOW LEGALISE IT :DD:egrgrgrgrkgj;tnqgnt oq3t55qyq45y54qyg5q4g4qgh PLEASE? 😉
If canabus could just be legalized there wouldn’t be all this money going out on trying to catch people and arrest them for having it and they could tax it and there would be so much more money put into the government ….. I mean it’s legal in Washington d.c !!!and colorado already for recreational use I mean really come on now people its just a natural plant nothing but mother natures gift to us ….
U never hear of people getting high and fighting, killing, or causing any kind of bad behavior like people do on alcohol . I think it’s way safer .
i think that if one man can do it legaly than the whole USA should be able to we are all made equal right?
look the govt is messed up any ways look at tis how they gettin payed $250000 a year for wat sayin no to tis an that. wat has the govt done good latley ill wait for a answer????? nothin at all. we have no jobs like our parents an grandparents had they graduated highschool mgo work some where for 20 years an retire. we dont have that privalage best job now a days is walmart haha. just legalizing weed would create jobs revenue and who knows wat else. just like tis bamboo is a resource that grows back within 7years it takes a tree double that if not longer. bamboo is stronger than wood so why not use bamboo ill tell u why the govt’s wallet is backed by timber companies an oil companies until shit changes up at the top nothing will get better. the richer get richer while the poorer get poorer. i know there is a bunch of garbage surronding the legalization of weed they (govt) saywell the mexican cartel will attack an we will have problems like the people in california. the reason people r dying over weed out there is cause u goin to legalize it in one state but not others. of course people r goin to attack. now if u legalized nationally all at once an all stores open at once u goin to solve 2 problems wit one stone. no more weed dealers an no attacks. the govt has taxes on tobacco an alchol which kill more americans dailey than bad weed deals thats the only way a person dies from weed bad deals. but in my mind if the govt wants to SAVE AMERICA they have to legalize weed. weed its the only thing we have left that can make a profit for the govt an solve a bunch of issues at once.hey they can even use weed to get people off of mental meds that r bad. but in my mind the govt will never legalize weed cause they are more worried about their (govt) money then the american people they could care less about us. but dont know where it says the american people have no rights and the politicans have all the rights. the american people are slaves and the politicans are our owners. nothing like being the govts bitches. all well life goes on peace out yall
No yall need to legal weed. In ever state. And how is it against the law , if it a plant that grows on the ground. It was put on this earth for a reason, cause if it wasn’t here,then how did it get here on earth.you dont know were it came from. Cause you know god didn’t put it here on this earth.
Now in my opinion why have guns if there here to kill people. An all you do is smoke weed and relax. An chill and word.cause you kno cops smoked weed an the gorerments to some were in line.and as in kids you should be only allowed to have two to 3kids and thats its.and out there to all them girls out there layin on your back get ****** by ever dude and having kids for noreason. Thats not kool thats i believe is a *****.that is stupid as **** why do you wanna have some many damn kids..about that baby thing after the girl haves two to 3kids tie her tubes and make it were she cant have anymore kids. Then they would be able to **** an not have no kids.
As in you obama, have you ever smoked weed before if not or if so i want to smoke weed with you and see why you hate weed so much. And why what do the government has says in it OBAMA your the president. Why is that you got the government sayin you cant legalise weed. When your the president anit. That saposte to be the kind of the world . I dont understand why yall make it so hard for people in life . LOOOOk weed =money and you know what that means more money an it will get all that **** taken care of.
I had wrote more down but its getting late so if yall wanna know more from. Me look me up on fb dooley bowman. Do you not kno how much the earth would be much more prettier. Im one for right now so write me on facebook. Cause i can keep on writing an telling you things. Ill try to make weed legal… Og Dooley Bowman