Weed Leads On 'We The People' Petition Website
source: http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2011/11/weed_leads_on_we_the_people_petition_website.php
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During the first two months since the Obama Administration launched the We The People petition website, 119 active petitions were posted on November 14; petitions that fail to meet the 25,000-signature threshold after 30 days are removed from the site and archived, reports Joseph Marks at Nextgov.
As of Nov. 14, cannabis-related petitions made up 13 percent of all those on the site, with 16 total petitions. The Administration had already "answered" -- well, at least kind of "non-responded to" -- another seven such petitions in October with one blanket response entitled "What We Have To Say About Legalizing Marijuana."
Surprise, surprise! That "response" -- from Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske, who is required by law to oppose marijuana legalization -- were frustrating, unenlightening exercises in political doublespeak. The Drug Czar's response failed to address any of the valid and pressing questions raised in the petitions, instead sticking with the same old line of nonsense and outright lies which the U.S. government calls a "drug policy."
Many of the current marijuana petitions attack that response as unacceptable and demand the firing of Kerlikowske from his official position as director of the infamous Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).
"This is hardly unexpected," Nextgov wrote of the dominance of cannabis issues. "Marijuana legalization advocates have played a dominant role in nearly every online interaction between the White House and the public."
However, all that concern on the part of the public, unfortunately, hasn't elicited much more than yawns and giggles from the Administration.
www.tokeofthetown.com/2011/11/weed_leads_on_we_the_people_petition_website.php
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Sarah4legalpot
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legalize it
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Sarah4legalpot
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dugdog47
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I would love to see weed legal. Not just for smoking, but also to see if hemp could really compete against cotton, lumber, oil, and the hundreds of other uses all the hippies are always talkin about.
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dugdog47
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RevKen
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Law Enforcement does not want to legalize pot because of the money they make with drug seizure laws. Not to mention the cash and drugs individual cops skim off of each drug bust.
I know that if Marijuana were legal my father would not have died such a painful death. He died of pancreatic cancer and he refused to use the pot I got for him simply because it is illegal. His doctors gave him dilaudid and morphine and they were not worried about him becoming addicted to them. Pot would not have saved his life but it might have helped him get through the chemo.
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