Obama Does Not Support Changes To Cannabis Laws 'At This Point,' White House Says

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/21/obama-medical-marijuana_n_3791149.html

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama does not support changes to the legal classification of marijuana, the White House said Wednesday, despite growing evidence of its medical benefits.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest was asked for the second day in a row if CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta's recent reversal on medical marijuana use and apology for misleading the public had had any bearing on Obama's position on the issue.

Whereas Earnest declined to answer the question on Tuesday, he confirmed Wednesday that the president does not believe any changes should be made to medical marijuana laws "at this point."

The administration's position on this has been clear and consistent for some time now, that while the prosecution of drug trafficking remains an important priority, the president and the administration believe that targeting individual marijuana users, especially those with serious illnesses and their caregivers, is not the best allocation of federal law enforcement resources. I looked it up and the president last talked about this in an interview he had with Barbara Walters in December when she asked a similar question. The president acknowledged that the priority, in terms of the dedication of law enforcement resources, should be targeted toward drug kingpins, traffickers, and others who perpetrate violence in the conduct of the drug trade ... that that is the best use of our law enforcement resources. But at the same time, the president does not at this point advocate a change in the law.
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Although Earnest noted the White House does not believe targeting individual marijuana users is "the best allocation of federal law enforcement resources," the Obama administration has nonetheless spent considerable funds cracking down on medical marijuana usage, including in states that have legalized the drug.

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This is getting pretty damn ridiculous really, at what point does continuing to argue with clear facts become insanity? Seriously though, Obama is weak as piss for his stance on cannabis, how can someone with such a history of use and with all the information in front of them still support the continued persecution of medicinal cannabis users. I realise that he is not solely responsible for what happens but he could come out personally in support of it instead of toeing the party line like a weak cunt.
 
draevon said:
Obama is influenced and controlled. Politics are never straight. We'll have to give it a few more years. Perhaps decades, in my country.

I'm curious about what the reaction to Uruguay's change will be. Inside the country. Economic shift? Crime rates/gang members decreasing or changing? We're having an interesting time ahead, folks.
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I'd like to know more about the change in Uruguay. A link will do.
 
crimsonjunk said:
Unfortunatly i have reached the same conclusion. Washington has chewed him up and spit him out.
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Well said crimson.. so i think the next best course of action is to continue to change things on a state by state level just like rado, washington, and cali among many others. We are still making progress and changing peoples minds everyday. If the old fogies in washington will not make the change we will have to make it for them.
 
Give it a year or 2 I say. Once we get closer to the end of his final term and he doesn't have the worry of popular opinion and the various government agantcies we might see a reclassification.

There's a lot more to it then simply rewriting the law. Hopefully in 2 years he will reconsider the evidence.
 
I've learned it's futile to expect rationality from these people. It's simply not possible for them anymore. No, I think this prohibition will go on forever; society sees drugs like this as corrupting, and no politicians gonna want to alienate the electorate. They've been conditioned by decades of shrill anti drug hysteria. I recently read a lurid piece about a deadly new high sweeping the nation: benzocaine...
 
szuko000 said:
Give it a year or 2 I say. Once we get closer to the end of his final term and he doesn't have the worry of popular opinion and the various government agantcies we might see a reclassification.

There's a lot more to it then simply rewriting the law. Hopefully in 2 years he will reconsider the evidence.
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Wonder if he's trying to push through the more important changes, like heathcare, and then towards the end will turn on this one. Would be great.
 
draevon said:
I'm curious about what the reaction to Uruguay's change will be. Inside the country. Economic shift? Crime rates/gang members decreasing or changing? We're having an interesting time ahead, folks.
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Well wouldn't legalising cannabis reduce crime rates rather drastically regardless, I mean using the most used illegal drug not being a crime would change statistics quite quickly in my opinion.

Gangs typically get most of their revenue from drugs so my guess members would drop as well but they will still be funded by drugs as long as there is a drug war. They will just switch to selling other drugs not legalised. Granted they would lose a lot of revenue from cannabis, theres still a lot of coke, speed, meth, herion etc to be sold.

I think legalising just cannabis could have a detrimental effect to some areas as criminals will just switch drugs, I expect to see a rise in cocaine production in South America if marijuana is legalised throughout but this is just speculation.

If you look at Portugal which decriminalized all drugs 10 years ago there has been a drop in crime, addiction and addiction based crime(stealing for drug money) so the evidence is already there, maybe not for full legalisation but it does show the drug war has failed(no surprise to any one here lol).

Back on topic(I guess), to paraphrase Bill Hicks
Whenever a new president is elected, they'd take him into a smokey room and show him footage of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you've never seen before,... And then say

'ANY QUESTIONS?....... I thought not.'
 
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RoomforJello said:
Back on topic(I guess), to paraphrase Bill Hicks
Whenever a new president is elected, they'd take him into a smokey room and show him footage of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you've never seen before,... And then say

'ANY QUESTIONS?....... I thought not.'
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I don't even think this is a joke. Notice that only married parents are promoted for the presidency now. If a sacrificial childless bachelor gets elected, we might see some change.
 
23536 said:
I don't even think this is a joke. Notice that only married parents are promoted for the presidency now. If a sacrificial childless bachelor gets elected, we might see some change.
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Sadly yeah its not really a joke suppose that was Bill Hick's thing he was equally a social commentator as he was comedian in my opinion, just kinda pointing out that shit won't change. Hopefully it will but it will take something drastic like voting in a 3rd party maybe...
 
the president and the administration believe that targeting individual marijuana users, especially those with serious illnesses and their caregivers, is not the best allocation of federal law enforcement resources.
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This should have said:

the president and the administration believe that targeting individual marijuana users, especially those with serious illnesses and their caregivers, is both morally corrupt and politically authoritarian
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