H.E.M.P. | February 04, 2010 | 24 comments

Will Obama ever seriously address marijuana legalization?

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You are never going to hear Barack Obama seriously address the issue of legalization of marijuana until it is more politically expedient for him to do so.

Look at health care “reform”. Candidate Obama promised all sorts of tough talk against the combined interests of Big Pharma and Health Insurance. When push came to shove, the healthcare titans got pretty much everything they wanted in the debate.

So, with public option health care a landslide issue supported by super-majorities of the American people, with health care a vital issue that directly affects nearly every American, with 47 million Americans going without health care insurance altogether, Barack Obama found the words of the health care lobbyists better than he heard the shouts of the majority of the American people.

Do you think he’s then going to react favorably to the cyber-screaming of 14.5 million American cannabis consumers demanding the same rights as beer drinkers, especially when the issue hasn’t even yet achieved full majority support in America? Most especially when those same health care lobbyists who killed bulk drug negotiations by Medicare and cheap drug importation from Canada don’t want to see people growing their own pot plants and cutting their demand for opioids, NSAIDs, and benzodiazapenes. And considering that health care lobby is joined by chorus of law enforcement lobbies protecting their jobs and Pentagon lobbies protecting their off-the-books cash cow.

So, no, do not look to Washington for any serious discussion on marijuana law reform. Barack Obama does not want to be “the Pot-Legalizing President”.

However, come November when Californians are voting to re-legalize marijuana and Democrats are suffering mid-term defeats, if following re-legalization California realizes an economic revival in cannabis while the rest of the nation struggles, and if Republicans do the smart thing and latch on to a naturally conservative issue of ending adult marijuana prohibition and start winning some seats, we could have a whole new discussion in Washington.
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24 comments // Will Obama ever seriously address marijuana legalization?

  • obamaisajoke
  • flipriza
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      flipriza  
    • obamaisajoke:

      what makes you think weed smokers are weak minded?
      you seem to generalize your statements with the same sentiments that the mainsteam media portrays all weed smokers...that of a lazy bum...
      that's like generalizing that your anti-weed comments come from stuck up white people who have no rhythm....
      makes no sense right?

    • 2 years ago
  • kurthsb27
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      kurthsb27  
    • obamaisajoke:

      so Michael Phelps sure is a weak mined, lazy, stupid, most winning Olympian of all-time. all you do is go to ever marijuana article and talk shit, do you have your own opinions or just what you were raised to believe by Nancy Regan. "Drugs are bad mkay" its just a plant man get over it.

    • 2 years ago
  • unimatrix0
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      unimatrix0  

    • If he does, it will be in his second term, when he feels less political constraint.

      I think right now he is happy to have individual states work out the kinks before going national.

    • 2 years ago
  • hunzedog
  • hunzedog
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      hunzedog  

    • IF HE STANDS UP LIKE A MAN OR HIDES BEHIND HIS TATTERED FLAG REMAINS TO BE SEEN. THEY WORK FOR US REMEMBER.. I LEARNED ABOUT TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION IN SCHOOL . WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT IMPEACHMENT AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY...

    • 2 years ago
  • Conniepae
  • hunzedog
  • Conniepae
  • hunzedog
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  

    • I hear the people who are saying 'wait, wait, wait'. But it's never tomorrow. Today is the tomorrow of the George W. years. With the recent Supreme Court ruling, corporations will control politics. Legalization will be off the table, when corporations rule.

      Some may think that won't happen, but why else would they fight for the right? Corporations and the money changers who own them will change the dialog. They already own and control our media. News organizations have no accountability. They are free to cover, or not cover whatever they choose. If they start spinning negative and no positive, private armies could be called into the 'war on drugs'. The conversation will stop immediately.

      We have already witnessed mainstream media's 'move along' to Republican 'decidership'. We are now witnessing their due diligence to the Republicans who are out of power, asking them 'what do you think'. It doesn't matter who is in power, corporations choose who get's the American ear. If the majority of who one gets to hear is Republican, it leads one to believe they should be the ones who lead. They control the spin.

      It's time for those with voices to use them. First and foremost cannabis hemp should not be in the same schedule as heroin.

    • 2 years ago
  • ilikeike
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      ilikeike  
    • Conniepae:

      We might could use a return to a publicly funded free press, I don't mean a few fringe networks, I mean a true democratic free press actually funded to provide up to date truth. This is what the 1st amendment demands, and is actually the cornerstone of gov't. for the people, by the people, of the people. We need to be demanding this. Current and the internet may be enough in the future, but right now in this transition period, we could actually press for our rights in a constitutional way. HAS EVERYONE GIVEN UP ON THE CONSTITUTION?

    • 2 years ago
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  
    • ilikeike:

      I agree, we need somewhere we can go for 'non-spin' 'trustworthy' news. Unfortunately all our sources have been sold to the highest bidder. Sad, sad, sad!

      I used to think the internet would be the place, but spinners are everywhere on the internet too. It's a world of spin.

    • 2 years ago
  • bluestranger
  • ChunkyCheezes
  • uptop
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      uptop  

    • O'bama and the Dems are raging vaginas. Period(s). I don't agree with many Republican ideas, but they get shit done. If marijuana is EVER legalized on a national level, it will be brought forth and championed by the Republicans.

    • 2 years ago
  • hunzedog
  • kurthsb27
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      kurthsb27  
    • uptop:

      If Ron Paul had won it be done by now, and they'd have audited the Federal Reserve too. by the way republicans/democrats its all the same shit vote for people not a made up party.

    • 2 years ago
  • Kari_Heaberlin
  • noxidereus
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  
    • uptop:

      I have seen many posts, with Fox covering the subject of cannabis. If President Obama really wanted to one up the Republicans, he would re-schedule cannabis. Cannabis crosses party lines. Adult Democrats and Republicans are in the closet, due to cannabis. If he would reclassify cannabis, Democrats and Republicans would be getting on board, instead of jumping ship. That would really be change!

      Acting as though cannabis hemp is only a 'drug' is small minded. I thought he was too smart to ignore the voices of Americans who are sick of an 'unjust war on American soil'. When people are given the opportunity to speak, they generally support reclassifying cannabis. People know they have been misled with 'madness'.

      It's time to stop 'kicking the can down the road'. Cannabis hemp should not be classified equal to heroin. That's just crazy. 'Madness in overdrive'.

    • 2 years ago
  • N_Dank
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