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You know what, fuck Obama. He hasn't even been inaugurated yet and his whole "change" charade is already falling apart. He's a hypocrite of the worst nature. If he had been caught using marijuana then he wouldn't be eligible to hold any public office whatsoever, nevermind the presidency. Yet, he's completely content towards turning a blind eye to the hundreds of thousands of people who are no more of a criminal than he is and who's lives are ruined because of three grams of a fucking plant. He promises to be "everybody's president" and yet ignores what is apparently one of the single most important issues to his constituency.
 
great post & point double ew. I was totally waiting for that!

for those too lazy to click link here's a repost:
Obama’s transition team responded to the second round of Change.gov questions on Friday, proving yet again that they’d sooner defeat the purpose of the site than actually discuss drug policy.

Last time, a question about marijuana legalization got the most votes from the public, resulting in a one sentence "no" response. This time, the questions were broken into categories, and this question came in first in the "national security" section:

Our current war on drugs is failing America. Billions of dollars are spent on a losing campaign. Our prisons are overflowing with people that don't deserve to be there. What is the government going to do in an effort to fix this major problem?

But it wasn’t answered. It was the only leading question to receive no acknowledgement, thus the national security category was ignored entirely. Obama’s team claimed that some leading questions were put aside to make room for new ones:

Since there were so many popular questions in so many categories, we tried to pull out some of them that had been addressed previously by the President-elect or Vice President-elect in order to focus the video portion on questions that haven’t been as specifically addressed during the Transition.

The questions that fall into this category appear at the bottom of the post, except when you scroll down, you find the marijuana question from the first round, but not the new drug war question that won in the second installment. It’s sort of a bait and switch, the idea being that by referencing the old marijuana question, we’ll forget that a totally different drug policy question won in the second round and Obama refused to touch it.

All of this is perfectly predictable, and I won’t meet with much success trying to make a controversy out of it. Still, it serves as yet another obnoxious reminder of the desperate avoidance of any meaningful discussion of our drug policy in mainstream politics.


http://www.cannabisculture.com/v2/ducking-drug-war-questions-at-changegov
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I feel people are casting judgment too early, obviously the "change" is not going to happen before he is even in office. If your expectation if for every campaign promise to already be in place you are going to be disappointed.

I feel this change.gov site gives people a voice if not with the administration then with the media, if we vote and it is ignored by the administration then it will be taken up by the media which will as a result bring it further into the public eye.
We have nothing to lose by voting on this and quite a bit to gain. While many make the argument that there are significantly more important issues at hand I would disagree. The prohibition of marijuana is, as Bill Hicks so elegantly stated, a war on personal freedom. Our personal freedoms are being reduced one at a time as government is taking unnecessary involvement by enforcing rules and regulations that cause significant waste and harm to American society.
An end to marijuana prohibition would be a step towards reclaiming basic rights, a step towards once again using logic and reason in governing and a step towards opening peoples eyes to the bullshit that surrounds them.
 
Honestly, along with the fact that he's not really going to change much (campaign promises are campaign promises no matter how convincing and charismatic the candidate), I think he's also concerned about winning the support of those who may still be a little unsure about him.

While 60-70% of the country is somewhere between Just Fine and Ecstatic over his election, there are still some important constituencies (both citizens and politicians) that remain very wary. If he came out right now with a lot of plans for dramatic social change, he risks permanently alienating a lot of people who are important for his success. My guess is that, as a person, he sees that the War on Drugs and the illegality of marijuana aren't good for the country. But he needs to start slowly in order to secure the political capital he'd need to withstand the backlash against something that would SURELY infuriate a good margin of the populace.

I'm optimistic, but I also know that social change is much more successful when it's from the ground up rather than the top down. Obama may not legalize it (or even nationally decriminalize it), but I think we can all be hopeful that he won't stand in the way of state-level initiatives in the way that Bush & Co. did.
 
He cant make a move on the marijuana situation right now because people would freak the fuck out. They'd freak out if a a white president wanted to decriminalize/legalize weed and imagine if the first black president tried to do it.

Its the number one cash crop, its not going anywhere no matter what so.... I dont know what excuse Obama's gonna use if he ever has to talk about marijuana
 
^ partially agree with above statement. people have to stop being so short sighted here. If you stop ripping up newspaper for rolling papers and actually read it, you would realize that there may be a few more issues that need to be resolved before considering altering the war on drugs.
 
Jarnel said:
If you stop ripping up newspaper for rolling papers and actually read it, you would realize that there may be a few more issues that need to be resolved before considering altering the war on drugs.
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And if you had read a bit of the thread before jumping straight to the ignorant pothead stereotype, you would realize that our discussion has been a bit more sophisticated than "m0ar weedz!! wurld peece FTW!!!!"

also, welcome to bluelight.
 
"Legalize the Medicinal and Recreational Use of Marijuana"

This idea qualified for the 2nd round of voting and received 19,530 votes during that period.
http://www.change.org/ideas

Correct me if I am wrong but did any other ideas get a higher number of votes?! That is quite telling.
 
done & done.

like what?

Its often reported some corrupt ass sect of the USA gov maybe CIA is the 1# drug source & makes insane amounts of profits that disappear later. First by selling drugs to terrosits & all sorts of nutty hooligans & then by arresting & fining innocent civilians effected by it who later stack in the prison system.
 
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