Mayor vetos unanimous resolution urging Washington to consider drug legalization

wohoo 1st time 1st post... and im on hella drugs!!!

how can you veto an examination and debate? veto power is way out of hand.

I've often wondered how one person can veto something that is supported unanimously.

He must be a Right Wing Conservative Christian Republican.

The man is a buzz kill.

Time for a new mayor. They are elected officials you know. If they do not represent what you want DO NOT re-elect them.

Perhaps he'd be better suited to bagging groceries.

Welcome to the war against drugs scam !

The criminalization of pot is simply needed to fill the prisons & rationalize the private incarceration system… & they get to destroy the black community as a bonus… Business as usual ! In the USA, the prison system is owned by private corporations (i), meaning that companies make money from putting people in jail.

This explains why America has the largest absolute prison population in the world (ii). Not just relative to its 300m population, but relative to the world. Even communist China, with 1.3 billion people, has less people in prison than America. US police officers are fired or given demotions if they do not meet a certain quota of people put in jail (iii). It’s called the prison-industrial complex (iv), and is just one example of how capitalism is yielding negative effects in America.
So how are so many people being put in prison? Welcome to the drug war. The CIA ships in cocaine to the United States in mass (v), and then uses the corrupt police force to deal these illegal drugs to the American public (vi). Naturally, having dealt the drugs, the police then know who is in possession of cocaine, so later bust them for it. Not only is the drug-industrial complex served, but so is the prison-industrial complex. Classic corporatism all made possible through the corrupt police force of bully-mentality.

And if by now you’re saying, “well, just because people are selling drugs, doesn’t mean the kids are forced to buy them”, consider the glorification of drugs in movies and television. Young kids love listening to Amy Winehouse and others (vii) (viii), but there is no age limit on how old you have to be to watch her on the news, boxed into the classic drug nightmare of so many poor victims of the entertainment industry. The average lifespan in the United States is currently 78 (ix) and expected to be commonly as high as 100 in the coming generations (x), yet in the entertainment industry was just over 60 in 1999 and was as low as 48 in 1950 (xi). Also consider the abomination that is America’s education system (xii), and its up-to and in some cases above 50% high school dropout rates (xiii).

Footnotes
i http://www.correctionsproject.com/corrections/pris_priv.htm
ii http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/2925973.stm
iii http://www.emissourian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19506987&BRD=1409&PAG=46...
iv http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/199812/prisons
v http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1998_cr/980507-l.htm
vi http://www.serendipity.li/cia/fifty.html vii http://danasdirt.com/2007/11/27/amy-winehouse-meets-a-young-fan/
viii http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_black#Charts
ix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
x http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1977733.stm
xi http://www.ancestry.com/facts/HOLLYWOOD-life-expectancy.ashx
xii http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx4pN-aiofw
xiii http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,344190,00.html

PS : Back then pot prohibition was but an excuse to wipe out the hemp industry … http://piratebook.com/chapter_17.htm

Man the drug dealers union is going to flip there lid when they here about this. If you legalize weed...... how are hard working drug dealers going to make money.

Why is it we elect leaders to better our societies and communities yet, when something could change the public eye on a topic such as marijuana it get's shot down by somebody.

This mayor will probably lose his next election and is nothing more than a minor roadblock on the way to Success.

In the words of Randy Pausch "Walls are put in place to stop the other people, not you"

marijuana should be legalized, taxed, and regulated for medical and recreational purposes.

free the weed!

the article states that "Overturning the mayor's vote would require the votes of seven of the council's eight district representatives."

if it was a unanimous decision, shouldn't they be able to overturn the veto?

He looks like a young Tony Robbins.

Ending the war on drugs and legalizing the medicinal and recreational use of marijuana are the two top issues on change.org right now. While I still remain pessimistic on the likelihood that this will happen any time soon, I think it is important that we keep pushing the issue and open up a forum for discussion.

As someone who has admittedly used marijuana, I think Barack Obama should offer the American public a bit more than "Barack Obama does not support the legalization of marijuana" this time around.

Another Myopic Narrow minded asshole who lives in a cave.

jerk.

What would happen if all the drug 'offenders' were suddenly not criminals anymore...it's all about an 'attitude adjustment'.

Well if it was a unanimous decision that he vetoed then it shouldn't be a problem. All they need is a 2/3 vote to override the veto if I'm not mistaken.

well obviously the government wants to make sure half of DC isn't going to be wiped out if all the sudden someone wants to do a random drug search........ they are all smoking because they have way to much "stress" being a politician

For the history of drug war see the Rolling Stone article. Long read as it should be, because it started in 1971!

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/17438347/how_america_lost_the_war_on_...