Big Featured Discussions | December 24, 2012 | 13 comments

Do you think we'll see an end to federal prosecution for marijuana in Obama's second term?

Although Barack Obama claimed during his first presidential campaign that it would not be a priority to prosecute criminals for marijuana-related offenses, the DEA under President Obama has raided hundreds of marijuana dispensaries and farming locations.

Some believe that, now that Obama doesn't have to worry about reelection, he will be able to focus on decriminalizing marijuana - or at the very least, telling the DEA to lay off. But others say Obama is just another candidate trying to appeal to the youth vote with no plans to actually change any laws or enforcement.

Do you think we'll see an end to federal prosecution for marijuana in Obama's second term?

Tune in to 'Marijuana Outlaws' today at 6E/3P for a look at farmers growing marijuana in northern California who have been victimized by the DEA.

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13 comments // Do you think we'll see an end to federal prosecution for marijuana in Obama's second term?

  • PressCore
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      PressCore  

    • You're kidding, right ? According to the info obtained via the BrasscheckTV
      website, George Bush Sr choose Clinton and Nobama for the Democratic
      front party to nominate precisely because they were more than willing to
      allow CIA drug smuggling to fluorish in their locals of origin. Contraband
      will always cost 100-1000 times as much as legalized medicines. That's
      all they care about BIG MONEY. They care nothing about the health of
      the population nor alleviating the suffering of the sick & injured. If they
      did they wouldn't also be in bed with GMOs, Big Pharma et al. The USA's
      Prison Industrial Complex rakes in $2.3 Billion each year. With that kind
      of big scale moola, kickbacks are the name of the game. Prohibition of
      Alchohol ended with the repeal of the Vollstead Act during the early 1930s.
      By 1937 they were at it again with Prohibition of Cannabis though they
      knew full well the immense corruption that would only make Organized
      Crime rise worse than ever. UnConstitutional statutes are the tools they
      use to enslave citizens to make their crime pay..

    • 5 months ago
  • Radical_Centrist
  • artemis6
    • +1
      artemis6  

    • I WISH ! There is too much riding on it staying illegal ( Prison industrial complex , Big Pharma , ect ... )... and we KNOW who he is MOST beholden too . HINT , not us . We can legalize it state by state ....

    • 5 months ago
  • wolfess
    • +2
      wolfess  
    • artemis6:

      I saw something a couple days ago on cnn that said the DOJ was going after ALL the states that have voted to LEGALIZE it; now granted, it WAS on cnn, and I haven't seen anything about it on any of the progressive news websites ... but if that is true I find it extremely sad after everything Obama has said about leaving marijuana alone (and I would find it hard to believe the DEA and DOJ are doing this without his permission) ...

    • 5 months ago
  • artemis6
    • +1
      artemis6  
    • wolfess:

      I hope not . Plant seeds . On the side of the road , in vacant fields , In the yards of the rich . Gurilla gardening . This liberty is for all . Free the weed !

    • 5 months ago
  • Forgotten_Echo
    • 0
      Forgotten_Echo  

    • I would like to say that I do see Obama lessening the amount of federal prosecutions for marijuania, however, it isn't that simple. We have atleast 2 incoming Congressmen that have expressed their deserve to impreach the President. It would give them a bit of grist for the mill to make a stinch by Obama not fulfilling his duty of the Head of the Executive branch in carrying out the execution of the laws passed by Congress.

      Not that easing the prosecution would be enough to honestly bring impeachment proceedings, but it would be an issue to gum up the works even more so.

    • 5 months ago
  • trut
  • remanns
  • Forgotten_Echo
  • rammstauffenberg
  • CybScryb
    • +2
      CybScryb  

    • We might see a major de-escalation in prosecutions, but the right wing and the left needs to understand that America elected their type of Republican in 2008 and re-elected him in 2012. I want to put Steve Jobs' message to Rupert Murdoch on t-shirts everywhere - "It's no longer the axis of liberal against conservative. It's now constructive against destructive."

    • 5 months ago
  • LabMonkey
    • +2
      LabMonkey  

    • Wow, tough question. Depends on whether he can get it removed from the Class 1 list by congress. If 2014 mid terms swing congress and add to the senate, we may see a change.

    • 5 months ago
  • Forgotten_Echo
    • 0
      Forgotten_Echo  
    • LabMonkey:

      I really don't see marijuani being removed from the Class 1 list. It is still a very hot-button issue and too many politicians are more worried about the next election cycle instead of looking more to the job which they should be doing, even if it does mean they won't be re-elected.

      The way I see it, if your re-election is going to swing on one issue such as this, you are not that deserving of a 2nd term anyways.

    • 5 months ago
JessMag
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