Bush Era Medical Marijuana Foe Nominated by Obama to Head DEA - Salem-News.Com Same ridiculous, unscientific, anti-liberty view on drugs? Check. Passing laws to help Wall-Street buddies? Check. Continuing to increase our deficit? Check. Continuing two wars and an imperialist foreign policy policing the world? Check. I hope you're all enjoying your "Hope and Change."
Prohibition is already over according to most here. That certainly can't change. Can it? Don't worry, be happy.
There's really nothing more I can say except it's time we stop looking to our government for change. We need to start educating people on the processes that limit our government and use the people's power to start making the changes. Rather than expecting the government to change themselves.
Yes, as reported a week or two ago, this is more change from the obama messiah. Good article, thanks for posting.
Well I hope everyone who elected this lying phony into office is happy now. I've seen the "hope", but fail to see the change. And now this shit. Fucking outrageous.
The only other person who had any chance of being elected was McCain and things would be MUCH MUCH worse for marijuana if he was elected, he said multiple times he would do all he could to arrest and convict medical marijuana patients if he was elected.
Exactly. McCain as president would have been EPIC fail for mmj and legalization movements. If you failed to see the change in mj policy from Bush to Obama thats your own fault.
everyone said i was just being cynical when i said obama wouldnt bring any real change. I told people that Nader or McKinney would be a better choice, but everyone is affraid of 3rd parties. Id rather vote for who i believe in rather than who i think can win. We need rank choice voting, time to ditch the republicrats. still though, it is a good point that it would be much worse under McCain.
I was rooting for Ron Paul. We oughta slip a high dose of hemp oil in every Politicians cup of coffee and print "you just took a high dose of hemp oil" at the bottom of the cup. Let them flip the fuck out and then let them realize they had no reason to. The thing that irritates me is that they do not know what they are talking about, because they have never experienced it first hand. I may be assuming, but if they had, they wouldn't be such hard-asses... unless they are fully aware and only wish to seek a profit.
Well based on the current trend of elected presidents no following through with their campaign promises...I think it would have been better if he were elected!!
Of course people, the military industrial complex will always be inherently against marijuana, no matter what face you put on tyranny, it still bites. Why can't we all just smoke a bowl?
Many of them have experienced weed. The current and past two presidents have & many of the congress critters have it in their history. They vote against it for political reasons knowing full well there is no legitimate reason for it to be illegal. Most of what is legislated is strongly influenced by the political action committiees of what ever special interest is paying the freight. The pharmaceutical companies would not want to see it in everyone's backyard. A plant that is as close to a universal panecea as can be and grown for very low expense would render a lot of their kidney & liver killing pills obsolete. Even if they got into selectivly isolating medicinal compounds after research is legalized they will want to charge big dollars for it. You can grow your own plant with selective medicinal qualities you need for very little money. You think our movement isn't a thret to them? Oh yes it is.
This is bad news. I really don't understand Obama's political tactics here. First, he puts an end to federal raids on medical marijuana dispensaries if they follow state laws (emphasis on medical), but then hires someone who is best known for organizing raids on medical marijuana patients and those who used marijuana for medical purposes. I think the feds finally grasp that unless something drastic is done, MJ has a really good chance of becoming legal in CA and that scares the crap out of them. I feel like Nixon's policy on marijuana is still the fed's view on things: Highlights of Nixon comments on marijuana: Jews and marijuana: "I see another thing in the news summary this morning about it. That's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob, what is the matter with them? I suppose it's because most of them are psychiatrists . . ." Marijuana and the culture wars: "You see, homosexuality, dope, immorality in general. These are the enemies of strong societies. That's why the Communists and the left-wingers are pushing the stuff, they're trying to destroy us." Marijuana compared to alcohol: marijuana consumers smoke "to get high" while "a person drinks to have fun." Nixon also saw marijuana leading to loss of motivation and discipline but claimed: "At least with liquor I don't lose motivation." Marijuana and political dissent: ". . . radical demonstrators that were here . . . two weeks ago . . . They're all on drugs, virtually all." Drug education: "Enforce the law, you’ve got to scare them." If you think about it, Marijuana use is still viewed like this by many of the OWGs in Congress (Old White Guys), and the ones who disagree don't get enough money to actually compete in the political arena since they don't collect money from pharma companies and don't sit on the boards of massive companies. TLDR version: Obama's white house is not any different than previous administrations and still appears to favor an uninformed and intolerant view of cannabis use.
this is what happens when u have obama and his wife involved. right now im not too worried about marijuana. hell we got china in Cali on US soil and out military or own president does nothing but send 35,000 troops over seas. I though he said in 2010 our troops were coming home? why we are sending more over seas? Obama & his wife are working on getting soldiers from outside the US to come over & take away all our guns and pretty much change the US currency for our money. thats supposed to happen in 2011 or in 2012 a war breaks out and the US splits 4 ways. china takes the west side, Russia take the East side, Europe takes the south, & Canada takes the north. then in a few years a world war breaks out between all 4 cause its about greed,power,& money. I don't buy the global warming crap they said all that too get people to think about it so we don't worry about whats really gonna happen. sry didn't mean to change the subject a bit.
A big +1 for this. I hate the mentality that makes people look to the government for everything, when the governments job is to maintain the status quo of power and corruption that they have established over the last couple hundred years (though they took more power and sped the process up in 1913, they have always wanted the same things). Government has been built up to either stay the same or gain more power and wealth for those already at the top (but to do so they must take power and money from YOU first). With all the states these days asserting their rights (whether it be through MJ laws, gun laws, or health care laws), we may actually see increased personal freedoms in our lifetime, but ONLY if people get educated and actively pursue that freedom! People are waking up all over the country and I believe we really have a chance!
I'm a mmj patient in California and I keep a low profile because I don't trust Obama, and whoever takes office next might throw us all in prison. They have a voluntary county ID program here and I volunteer to not take part in it because that's a neat database of patients for the feds to hunt. It didn't take a genius to see that Obama was a puppet. Is there anyone still supporting this guy? His approval rating has to be mighty low.