Obama's war on Pot

OGEvilgenius

OGEvilgenius

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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/obamas-war-on-pot-20120216

Back when he was running for president in 2008, Barack Obama insisted that medical marijuana was an issue best left to state and local governments. "I'm not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue," he vowed, promising an end to the Bush administration's high-profile raids on providers of medical pot, which is legal in 16 states and the District of Columbia.


But over the past year, the Obama administration has quietly unleashed a multi*agency crackdown on medical cannabis that goes far beyond anything undertaken by George W. Bush. The feds are busting growers who operate in full compliance with state laws, vowing to seize the property of anyone who dares to even rent to legal pot dispensaries, and threatening to imprison state employees responsible for regulating medical marijuana. With more than 100 raids on pot dispensaries during his first three years, Obama is now on pace to exceed Bush's record for medical-marijuana busts. "There's no question that Obama's the worst president on medical marijuana," says Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project. "He's gone from first to worst."


The federal crackdown imperils the medical care of the estimated 730,000 patients nationwide – many of them seriously ill or dying – who rely on state-sanctioned marijuana recommended by their doctors. In addition, drug experts warn, the White House's war on law-abiding providers of medical marijuana will only drum up business for real criminals. "The administration is going after legal dispensaries and state and local authorities in ways that are going to push this stuff back underground again," says Ethan Nadelmann, director of the Drug Policy Alliance. Gov. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, a former Republican senator who has urged the DEA to legalize medical marijuana, pulls no punches in describing the state of affairs produced by Obama's efforts to circumvent state law: "Utter chaos."
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On pace to obliterate Bush's dispensary bust record. Good job Obama.
 
OGEvilgenius

OGEvilgenius

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cannabineer said:
There is one: consider the alternative. cn
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There are 3rd parties in the United States. Many are much better alternatives.

Thus far Obama has been worse than Bush on every level just about and Presidents in their second term don't have to worry about reelection. Anyone is better than this clown, even that nut bag Santorum - if only because he'll be held up by the fact that he might have to get elected again.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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OGEvilgenius said:
There are 3rd parties in the United States. Many are much better alternatives.
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The problem there (imo) is that third parties have a snowball's chance in Malaysia of fielding a winner. So my adherence to reason/logic requires I not deliberately throw my vote away.

While we may disagree on just how the system is rigged, I doubt we'll disagree that it is rigged. cn
 
Banditt

Banditt

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cannabineer said:
The problem there (imo) is that third parties have a snowball's chance in Malaysia of fielding a winner. So my adherence to reason/logic requires I not deliberately throw my vote away.

While we may disagree on just how the system is rigged, I doubt we'll disagree that it is rigged. cn
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awww thats cute someone who thinks there vote still counts.
 
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