The Brownie Mary Club Democratic Club of California is hosting an online petition to be presented to the chairman of the Presidential Debate Commission to include at least one cannabis-related question in the presidential debates.
MARIJUANA IS A MAJOR ISSUE AND NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED BY THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
Seventeen states and the District of Columbia representing over a third of the U.S. population have legalized the use of marijuana when recommended by a physician, six states have marijuana initiatives on their November ballots (three legalization and three medical), $20 billion taxpayer dollars are spent every year enforcing marijuana prohibition ensnaring over 850,000 Americans in the criminal justice systems and thousands are killed along our border over illegal importation of marijuana into the United States. There is no other issue that costs so much and directly affects the lives of millions of Americans yet is so totally ignored.
It is time that this issue is given the attention it deserves. We respectfully request that one or both of the following two questions be asked in one of the three presidential debates.
1. Colorado, Oregon and Washington have initiative measures on their ballots that will legalize the sale and distribution of marijuana for any purpose. If one or more of these states pass a legalization measure, as polls indicate is likely, what will be the response of your administration?
2. With seventeen states and the District of Columbia representing over a third of the U.S. population having legalized the use of marijuana when recommended by a physician, there is a direct conflict between federal law and state law. Three states have medical marijuana initiatives on their ballots in November and several more states are expected to enact medical marijuana laws over the next two years. Will you do anything as President to help reconcile the differences between federal and state law?
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Not like it would make a difference. They can say whatever they want and it still wouldn’t matter. Just like how Obama said he would be more lenient on marijuana policy, yet he never fulfilled his end of the bargain.
Yeah….and let’s not forget Romney this Presidential election http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lTbAI4sP0M&feature=player_embedded#!
Better yet let your vote be heard . Vote for, Gary Johnson .
Just do it!!!! Too many people can benefit and get off prescription medication! But that is one big government scam anyway!
Would benefit all of us who will loose Medicare in the future!!!!
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an issue that needs addressing
MARIJUANA IS A MAJOR ISSUE AND NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED BY THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
it’s satanic to have alcohol as a legal recreational drug which causes addiction, insanity, & costs america billions from it’s repercussions then meanwhile spend billions of tax payer dollars arresting marijuana users since marijuana is a non-addictive sedative.
Its time now!
It’s time for change, so lets get this changed and legalize.
I think that medical marijuana should be debated. I take alot of prescription drugs that are for me for a Dr. but if I could smoke marijuana I could stop taking at least 8 pills a day. Marijuana is natural there is nothing added to it like prescription pills or tobacco. I have known people who have been in car wrecks involving drunk drivers but I have yet to meet anyone that has killed someone after smoking marijuana. My father had Colon Rectal cancer and went through countless surgeries and chemo and he was so so sick he wanted to commit suicide I went out and got him some marijuana and at first he was alittle nervous cause it was illegal but the benefits for him out weighed the risk of getting caught to him. He smoked up until his death for 10 years and that was back in 1985 his Doctor told him go ahead if it’s helping you that much who am I to say no or stand in your way. Your the one thats sick and I’d rather see you eating and keeping your strength up then to be sick all the time and be so weak you can’t walk. So please think of all of us people out here that could really really benefit from this instead of slamming the door and acting like it’s a drug like cocaine or crystal meth. cause it’s not. Thanks for taking the time to read my story.
Re: The War on Drugs ….If American citizens smoke marijuana/ want the right to smoke marijuana, isn’t America waging this “war” against it’s own citizens…of the people, by the people, for the people…I want the right to smoke marijuana !
as always they will sidestep it or just say no. boy could the country use the tax money from legal pot or what?????
I hereby sign this petition for having a cannabis related question in the presidential debate
The people still will be braking the federal law unless they change cannabis to a class 2 or 3 drug. Most doctors will not aprove it,because the DEA can take there license to right percriptions anymore,if the president dosn’t do this we can still get the congress to pass it, don’t give up people.I do believe that alot of sickneses that are effecting people now can be treated with cannabis.or prevent them from getting it.
Jim Carlson won’t be in the debate, and he’s the Grassroots Party’s candidate. :/
Time to legalize hemp/cannabis and free prisoners. Draconian laws further the desecration of our civil rights and liberties. ???????? president Obama had not fulfilled his administrations promises to STOP incarcerating and harassing bona fide dispensaries but has instead picked out/on those most successful in their community/city/state. Huge waste of $$ and destroying of families and lives. One can be an alcoholic, beat their wife abuse children and run free. Alcohol is much more destructive than cannabis will ever be to any human or society.
I’ve signed the petition and posted it to my Facebook page. I can see it on my page, but not on my Wall. I’m new to Facebook and don’t know if this is how it’s supposed to work. I thought I’d see it on my Wall (Home) AND on the page titled with my name. I thought it would appear in BOTH places?
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I petiton that one question be on the presidential debate
Unfortunately, our president can’t talk about this issue without laughing.
If these questions were asked, their answers would be predictably disingenuous, as Obama has already proven, and as Bush similarly did.
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Ask them all the questions you want, weed related or not. It won’t matter. They will just say one thing and do another – or more possibly, nothing at all. We the people, for the people, my ass…
They should at least answer the first question.
I don’t want to hear from these two clowns about marijuana. What is there to debate?
Innocent People do not belong in jail; or have the government ruining their good names with fake criminal records. Seriously, what is there to even debate?
Is this The Land of The Free or The ‘Peoples’ Republic? Seems like a debate the demos and rebubs need to have with themselves.
I signed the petition but am not holding my breath for either candidate since they both totally suck regarding this issue…
It truly pisses me off that, yet again, we have to choose between tweedle dee and tweedle dum to be our country’s president.
Good work by Allen popping this proposal. Cwpple of details:
1. $20-Bil. taxpayer dollars per year (for) enforcing marijuana prohibition– here’s another view of who pays this bill:
http://www.rjrt.com/taxpays.aspx
R. J. Reynolds boasts (complains?) that the total Tobacco Settlement, fed, state and local $igarette taxes for fiscal year 2011 were $44.5-Bil.
2. “There is no other issue that costs so much and directly affects the lives of millions of Americans yet is so totally ignored.”
Well, maybe partly right, it’s the same issue, but the CDC says $igarette smoking costs the US economy $193/yr. (as of 2000-2004; $96B medical, $97B lost productivity)! Same issue, because if (through courageous campaigning) promulgation of moderate harm-reduction equipment (long-stemmed one-hitters, cannabinoid e-cig, vaporizer) made it possible for youngsters to try cannabis INSTEAD OF $igarettes, and NOT get hooked on nicotine, that monster cost figure might DISAPPEAR in a few years!
“There is no other issue that costs so much and directly affects the lives of millions of Americans yet is so totally ignored.” Compared to
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Can you hear us screaming yeat ? We are not going to stop!
This is a non starter.
Romney will never end the drug war. He is a stanch supporter of prohibition and a narrow minded moralistic idiot that will only serve the greater good if you are a top earner in this country.
Obama is a know liar and has misrepresented those that trusted him the last election concerning prohibition and transparent government. Why on earth would you believe he will do anything different than he did last time. He will tell you what you want to hear and then do what he wants when he does not need your vote anymore.
Regardless of who you vote for you will get the same crap. The only way to vote to make a real change to this government is to vote independant and that will only give the election to one of the other two candidates. In other words aint nothing gonna happen in the next 4 years in our favor.
Is it me or does Mitt Romney look like Paulie off the Sopranos…
Hello Everyone
This is a great initiative! Great Job NORML!
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One is already the KING OF THE WHITEHOUSE and the other wants to become KING OF THE WHITE HOUSE, but in the end they are both puppets of FEDERALISM and supporters of MARIJUANA PROHIBITION. The 21ST CENTURY INQUISITORS will still get a BLANK CHECK to combat the users of the NEW MOTHER NATURE. To address MARIJUANA PROHIBITION in the debate is TABOO to THE NEW WORLD ORDER and FEDERALISM with the ORWELLIAN MENTALITY. We pay taxes so they can corner us like RATS IN A CAGE within our own borders with FEDERAL LAW as the BIG STICK, so they can control us with their FEDERAL UTOPIA of a ORWELLIAN STATE of BIG BROTHER. IN OR, CO, and WA get the vote in November for the real change for the better. THERE IS STILL LIGHT AT END OF THE TUNNEL as the WALL comes tumbling down brick by brick and the BARBARIANS are still at the gate waiting. HAIL TO THE MONARCHY!
These two take the issues as if they are being punked when asked about costly marijuana prohibition.
I would ask if they are in favor of auditing the Federal Reserve. They might also take that as a non-serious question.
Asking government to control marijuana THC, Production, & Sales for strictly recreational edible gourmet cannabis.
Vote for the guy who won’t be there.
Gary Johnson for President!
I really cant believe they will want to address this issue. Mitt is way to scare to even talk about cannabis. Which could make him a very dangers man if he win the w-house. And if we keep this Pres in office then u should expect the same war on cannabis. Mitt would take it to a much higher degree than the one we have now in office. Mitt has no problem throwing every pot head in jail under we will help u break your drug habit. A very long dream of the D.E.A and privet prison’s
Government rehab hospitals and so on.
MAKE ALCOHOL ILLEGAL, OR MAKE MARIJUANA LEGAL. AS SIMPLE AS THAT!!!!!!!!!
The drug war epitomizes wasteful government spending.
What we need is to fight fire with fire. We sort of did that with medical marijuana – we fought lies with half truths with minimum success. We need to “pull an Obama”.
What does “pull an Obama” mean? It means say one thing and do another after you get elected. So what we need is a candidate who will lie through his teeth, saying he will never legalize marijuana, but when he gets elected, he “pulls an Omaba”, and legalizes marijuana. Thats the way we get things done in America………………..
Seventy-four percent of Americans think medical marijuana should be legal. Support for medical marijuana is literally zero in the Senate and minimal in the House. This is a representative democracy!?.
We don’t know where all the money that funds their election campaigns comes from. We DO NOT KNOW where the money comes from.
Who benefits more from the war on marijuana than the drug cartels? Just saying….
There is an active agenda, enforced via the CPD, to disregard topics which both Democrats and Republicans want to avoid. Expanding the debates to include 3rd party or independent candidates would do a lot to give these ignored issues some exposure.
Here is a video that argues for lying to pollsters to get around the 15% rule, the main barrier to 3rd party candidate entry into the debates:
Mitt Romney just can’t wait to start support Drug Cartels! Mitt Romney for Drug Cartels! Its a Win-Win for them! Whooah!!! More murders, more crime attached to marijuana; come on folks! We need to get behind and vote for ruining the country by electing Mitt! We will never have better chance to help make millions for criminals that should be in jail and awaiting a trip on ‘ole sparky. A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for criminal enterprise and murder of our neighbors in Mexico. Vote for Romney and increase crime and Murder. It really is that simple. I just can wait for my turn to be held up and maybe cracked in the head with a heavy object. On the wait to vote, I’ll just bash myself into a traffic a couple times, just to get warmed up. After sustaining several brain/mind injuries; I’ll finally be at the correct level of mental function to understand these pieces of shit.
“at least one cannabis-related question”‘ Keep thinking like that and expect only one answer.
Why peolple even think sitting back for some little acknowledgement by way of “least one question” will make an iota of difference is beyond me.
This wimpy attitude is what gets a policy discusion to less than a ‘also relegated’ to the dust bin. I’m guessing 5-10 seconds worth of any consideration by any debate. Has been, also ran and ‘remember the…’ will garner more notice.
please, give me one legitimate justification for your prohibition of marijuana. I’m willing to bet you can’t.
I would like to see if Obama can address either one of these fair and pertinant questions without his trademarek smirk when doing so. Not that his answer will be reflected in his actions if he is re-elected, as has been his failing to date.
why hasnt marijuana bin legalized yet.
What happened to the Tea Pot Party ?
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I doubt they’ll give it serious consideration if the topic comes up. I’m expecting Romney to be out and out against it, and Obama to make a quip and brush it off. Then, it’ll be a Robert McLaughlin style NEXT QUESTION dash to get as far away from the subject as possible.
Keep running the world economy into the ground so that it doesn’t matter who is POTUS because everybody needs the money and the jobs at the state and local levels.
Just get federal legislation to stop the feds (DEA, DOJ, IRS, etc.) from interfering in MMJ states. After that, MMJ states with their brick and mortar programs on hold will take them off paper and have them for real, and other states will see the cash cow and jump on the money train. Once enough states are MMJ states, the whole folly of cannabis prohibition will topple, and soon it will be legal for industrial and adult recreational purposes.
Cannabis is very popular in the Muslim world, despite its prohibition. It’s a great calmer of the masses, and gives the NGOs a foot in the marketplace while giving intelligence agencies a few shell companies. Above ground, you can trace who the money goes to. Under prohibition, you can’t trace who the money goes to, so if it goes to terrorist organizations you don’t know till it’s too late.
It’s instant jobs in the Middle East, Afghanistan and everywhere. Traded in U.S. dollars, it’s hard currency for our poor brothers and sisters on the planet, which is better than the current form of militarizing the drug war and having it suffice as a major source of economic aid. People in the Middle East are rioting because there is not enough work. Get the governments to become westernized by dangling cannabis jobs to the people in order to pressure their governments to westernize enough also for cannabis to be legal, even if alcohol is not, legal at least for export.
Keep running the world economy into the ground until cannabis is legalized.
Romney or Obama will have to sit back and watch more states become MMJ states, and legalization will happen.
There is simply too much death and suffering, too many shattered lives under cannabis prohibition.
Holder, get on board!
well cannabis well better our economy greatly .. healthy 4 earth! unbelievable medicinal purposes .. I believe in the herb ..ITS THE FUTURE! ! IM from TX I wish it wuz decriminalized or legal.. and cannabis laws here are strict! ! I would devote my life 2 this amazing herb!
Mitt Romney Notice Men who hide behind thier phony “morallity” always harbor the most ill-will & contempt for all humanity
whether any questions get asked in the debate or not would not really matter.even if one of them was for it wouldn’t really matter as there is only 1 vote per person.what really matters and is going to turn this thing around is getting the whole truth about all aspects of cannabis out there more and more every day.
Never happen. Neither one has the balls to discuss this.
Big corrections gives a lot of money to both sides and are guaranteed %80 cell occupancy. Big reefer includes not only private prisons and the Mexican border war but the military budget includes marajuana “interdiction” in Latin America and a there is a raft of other big business entities. Neither side wants to talk about it
no, rephrase that; “neither one has balls…”
just because they fathered children, doesn’t make them men. they would sell their children for a barrel of oil and a fabricated ACORN vote…
values do not exist in the government. if they did, this would be a just nation fighting for the God-given rights of man all over the world.
Prohibition of Cannabis is not constitutional,
We have the right to the pursuit of happiness
We have the right to practice the religion of OUR choice, not one chosen by another person, and cannabis is integral in bringing the love of God into my life, prohibs who happens to either hate cannabis, or gains money from its illegality –
freedom is something the usa touts until a cannabis consumer finds bliss, or heaven for a few minute perhaps, is it that the low lifes are just jealous cause MONEY can never buy happiness, and yet some one with no money what so ever can be the happiest person on the planet?
I think its part of it, and i will toke the next one in spite of the anticonstitutional low lifes
These are the best questions we can come up with? What about cutting funding to programs that do not work both canidates have said such, and drugs are bought and sold in high schools as they have been for 50 plus years, The program does not work. How about asking the canidates if they support the current free for all policy of unregulated marijuana or a regulated system that puts power back into the hand of parents. We can force walmart to stop selling to children yet we take our lives in our hands should we approach a car on the street corner dealing in the manner that has been accepted and enforced by the curret policies of the US government.
Mitt Romney’s stance on all things marijuana are unfortunatly typical of the republican party. Paul Ryan on the other hand has stated that he and the tea party though don’t support legalization, they completely support the state’s (voter’s) rights to choose their own laws. Its my hope that Romney will listen to the will of the people. Obama surely refuses to listen or care.
I know my vote will go to one who answers this question right, otherwise my vote will go to Roseanne Barr and Cindy Sheenan whom are also on the ballot for president. Come on guys instead of being known as the president who started a war, or the one who did something worse, why not be the President who ended marijuana prohibition and saved our countries economy.
I agree that this question should not be asked, as it will only give both guys an opportunity to insult and re-poison the debate, of which debate we have managed to pull control from their hands using the internet, for the Main DStream Media -love- their prohibition. It makes for much better news pictures than all the =cannabis peace in Amsterdam. That is why you never see the MSM covering the story in Amsterdam… because there isn’t the story they expect to see, which is utter societal destruction and chaos, which is what Both Presidential candidates will promise when asked.
Better they have to deal with it after at least 1 of 3 states votes to legalize.
I won’t vote for any of these fools. I am going to skip to voting for Medical Marijuana in my state maybe write in Ron Paul if you can even do that then I am done. I refuse to take part in voting for “the lesser of two evils” game they want us to play. Not voting for any of the candidates is a protest of its own and will be easier on my conscience.
Evil people are trying to keep it illegal. Look at Sharon Tate’s conspirator. He tried to ruin peace and love. There are many free dark people still trying to win. I send them orange winged angels called Carrions to “blanket” them and their negativity. Try it. Then talk about legalizing. We have to fight! They’re not going to forfeit. Feeling good should be legal! It has been for thousands of years and we never heard 1 single bad thing about pot. We’re not asking for Crystal Meth to be legal.. Cannabis. Yes we cannabis! Go fight.
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To Tell you the Truth…I am sick of both of them…they are so out of touch with the REAL people of this planet…they want us to play this election game with them in the football season with OUR LIVES… lower and raise taxes, gasolne prices soring through the roof, behind our backs…taking their stocks, bonds, and money out of the banks..so you don’t notice ..only fit for the rich..guess well be riding bikes..like they do over in Eruope…when it is all about themselves. LEGALIZE Cannabis…put the people back to work at what they do best…Agriculture Farming of Cannabis; Industrial and Medical! Import and Export, find out what other research can be done as they are making Hemp oil…why not as a alternative fuel…with the threat of $6.00 a gallon in the next few months…we can do so much with this plant it is not funny. They are making us become wasted in mind and body with the pharmacutial garbage they have pump us up with and taken our liberties away from us, and our children are not any better…look at the hate, selfcenterness, bitterness already at age 5 and up..their moral charater shot dead in the water…their Elite-stress is their’s not our stress,while cannabis let us rest while they STRESS…the same junk they shove down our mentality should be shoved right back where it belongs with them…eat your own crap!!! Looks like the pigs are squilling loud and strong…they don’t want to turn the money aloose..like they can take it with them…it will come back to us! When the devil and his cronnies are dismantel…they don’t like that one bit..they don’t believe their crap STINKS…lol CANNABIS smells like HEAVEN inside and outside my being!!! The elites play this game to pick your pocket dry…Man if the shoe was on the other foot…what would life be like…make the rich poor for a change! They will do it to themselves…they don’t need our help…watch them and their behavior from now on…see how they go crazy!!!
Gov. Gary Johnson… for President…hummmmm…wink*
If you really want Marijuana legalized by someone who is running for the presidency ,you need to check out Gary Johnson ;LBT . He is adamantly for legalizing it and is on the 2012 ballot.
FREE THE WEED, STOP THIS FAILED DRUG WAR NOW, LEGALIZE CANNABIS AND MOVE THE ECONOMY FORWARD..
move the economy now stop the invasion of prifisie!!!
Tell me somebody…what issues have Gov. Johnson handled concerning: Abortion, jobs, foreign relations, new currency, economy, taxes, social security, housing, internet, gay marriage, Military spending cuts, gross money deception; go for it!
Most media have not carried Gov. JOHNSON LIVE. What is really going on. I huged and kissed my real self a snake, my ego RAN