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Does President Obama need treatment?
The recent reminders of the President’s extensive past recreational drug use bring an important issue to the forefront. What will we do with the President? All the relevant authorities have been clear on this subject– there is no such thing as consequence-free recreational drug use. The “first way” has been deprecated by the ONDCP, so it’s unlikely that we’ll see the President cuffed on the side of the tarmac as they search Air Force One. And the “second way” silver bullet of legalization isn’t an option. It’s just not possible for someone to do weed and maybe-a-little-blow and then, without intervention, just go on and write books and become President and stuff. Therefore, it’s clear that he needs treatment. Fortunately, based on the thousands of treatment places I see advertising on and spamming this site, there are apparently some choices available. And it’s possible that his health care plan may cover some of the cost. Read More...

Obama Pot-Smoking Details Revealed In Book
The meticulous biographer David Maraniss revealed President Barack Obama's early girlfriends in an excerpt of his forthcoming biography, and now the Internet is seizing upon new details of the president smoking marijuana with his buddies at the Punahou School in Hawaii. Politico's Playbook teased the following excerpt from "Barack Obama: The Story," which will be published in June but is already viewable on Google Books. "When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted 'Intercepted!' and took an extra hit," Maraniss writes. But Obama's buddies, who called themselves the "Choom Gang," didn't mind him messing up the rotation. (After all, this was Hawaii.)
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Obama's Hypocritical War on Marijuana
A forthcoming biography on President Obama is making headlines, with new details about the president smoking marijuana with his teenage friends in Hawaii. David Maraniss' book, Barack Obama: The Story, describes Obama as a marijuana enthusiast: "When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted 'Intercepted!' and took an extra hit," Maraniss writes. Maraniss also describes Obama's technique of "roof hits" while hot-boxing cars. "When the pot was gone, they tilted their heads back and sucked in the last bit of smoke from the ceiling," he writes. Obama has been less than shy about his drug use in the past, writing about the topic in Dreams from My Father, "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it," he writes in the memoir.
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It’s Time for Obama to Have His “Marijuana Moment”

The Kinder, Gentler Drug Czar Gil Still Wants to Lock You Up for Pot

Status Report: Statewide Marijuana Legalization Initiatives
As summer draws near, the election picture when it comes to statewide marijuana legalization initiatives is becoming a bit clear

Pot Soon Out Of Banned Lists by Sports Anti-doping
John Fahey, the president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), has indicated the body may look at changing the criteria for cannabis as a banned substance for athletes. The idea that cannabis doesn't fall into the descriptions applied to performance enhancing drugs isn't new, but the fact that it's gaining traction is.

Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Keep On Truckin' Despite IRS
If you live in a state with legal medical marijuana dispensaries you probably know that the feds do what they can to stamp them out. It’s that old federal versus state law tension. In the case of pot dispensaries, the tension is palpable.

Medical Marijuana Adocates Get Landmark Victory in California
People v. Colvin affirms that dispensing collective members are not required to help cultivate their medication

Mexico's Two Major Crime Cartels Now at War

Spanish Town of Rasquera Leases Land For Marijuana Plantation
Town's mayor says scheme, which is legal, is chance to bring in money and create jobs

MMJ Low Priority, Oregon's New U.S. Attorney Says

MJ Groups Hope Ore. Race Will Have Chilling Effect

A Judge’s Plea for Pot

Legalize Drugs Next Problem, Please

The 3rd-Annual Treating Yourself Marijuana Expo is This Weekend
Canada's largest marijuana trade show and exhibition, is this weekend (May 25 – 27) at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

Arguments Against Hemp And Why They Are Wrong

Hemp Helped British Colonialism Take Root
Hemp breakfast cereal, hemp clothing, hemp hand cream - all available in perfectly respectable stores.

Our Bogarting Interceptor-in-Chief

Andrew Kirell asks the right question:

❝In light of these stories, shouldn’t President Obama offer every American the right to “choom” (verb, to smoke marijuana), instead of continuing to lock up marijuana users for hitting three-foot bongs like he did?❞

… in his article Why Won’t President Obama Support Our Right To ‘Choom’ A Doobie Like He Did?

❝Young Obama apparently was also a bit of a bogart when it came to communal marijuana smoking:❞

❝Barry also had a knack for interceptions. When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted “Intercepted!,” and took an extra hit. No one seemed to mind.❞

In light of one of this administration’s drug policy fetishes, I also find it a bit ironic that Obama had actually developed a special way to smoke pot while in the car.

"No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back."
~ Turkish Proverb

US Decrees That Marijuana Has No Accepted Use

The Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis filed its petition in October 2002. In 2004, the DEA asked the Department of Health and Human Services to review the science. The department recommended in 2006 that marijuana remain classified as a dangerous drug. Four and a half years then elapsed before the current administration issued a final denial.

"We have foiled the government's strategy of delay, and we can now go head-to-head on the merits," said Joe Elford, the chief counsel for Americans for Safe Access and the lead attorney on the lawsuit.

Obama takes cue from Slick Willie
Chicago Sun Times: Jul 6 2011
There was a time when Barack Obama seemed more honest than Bill Clinton. While Slick Willie notoriously claimed he smoked pot but “didn’t inhale,” Obama candidly admitted, “When I was a kid, I inhaled frequently. That was the point.”

Lessons to learn dwr

A very interesting article about an entirely different subject: Obama and Gay Marriage: A Lesson for All Progressives and the Obama Campaign

The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that in the wake of President Obama’s support for marriage equality, opposition to it is at an all-time low, at 39 percent. For the first time, strong support exceeds strong opposition. Moreover, there is now greater support for marriage equality among African Americans — a whopping 59 percent — than in the general population, breaking long-held stereotypes.

Look at that: Leadership happens. [...]

And there’s a lesson here for all progressives — and for the Obama campaign. We were told by the Democratic strategists and the campaign pollsters, the Democratic establishment, that coming out for marriage equality would be harmful to the president. [...]

But the opposite has happened.

This is a point that Scott Morgan has been making for some time when it comes to drug policy. The notion that a President would be damaged by showing real leadership in drug policy reform is a false fear, and way out of date.

There are things we can learn from the activism work being done in gay rights.

I find the statistic about African American support for marriage equality particularly stunning. Imagine what could have happened with an African American President speaking out compellingly about the devastation of the drug war in African American communities. Imagine true leadership.

Meanwhile… the drug war continues and people die.

The Atlantic – this is a photo essay with warnings about them being graphic and stark. I’ve seen much more graphic photos of the violence in Mexico. Comments on the article are a mixed bag — a fair number who see legalization as part of the solution, but also some idiots…

Your Latest Reminder That Obama Has Taken the War out of the War
In Honduras: Four dead in one operation, including a 14-year-old and two pregnant women. Then, a village raid, in which agents put a gun to the head of a teenager, threatened to kill him, then dumped in the jungle, still tethered. The DEA and Pentagon are playing coy about their involvement.

56 Percent Of Americans Favor Legal Marijuana
Fifty-six percent of Americans think marijuana should be legalized and regulated like alcohol and tobacco, according to a nationwide Rasmussen poll of 1,000 likely voters. Asked earlier this month, "Would you favor or oppose legalizing marijuana and regulating it in the similar manner to the way alcohol and tobacco cigarettes are regulated today?" only 36 percent of likely voters opposed the concept and 8 percent were undecided.

74% of Americans Oppose Obama's War on Ganja Rx

POT PROPAGANDA ALERT

Only in TVland.

Ryan is for states rights on everything. A Federalist usually is.

For those with obama short term memory loss... smoke better pot. - DdC
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1709

Obama only said he would leave individuals following state laws alone, which he did.

Only overturning Nixon's lie to re-schedule Ganja less than #1. Which they have already done for cannabinoids. leaving medicine with Big Pharma. Leaving Hemp and Buyers Clubs outlawed as per the Commerce Clause, not Obama.
http://endingcannabisproh...ion.yuku.com/topic/1650/

Nixon rejected his own republican commissions results, that were a compilation of previous results. The same as the IOM did in 1999, with the same conclusions that it has medicinal value and is not physically addictive or pose a threat to society. The 3 criteria to become a schedule#1, cannabis fails the test on all three. Nixon changed the title and lumped in Hemp and Medicinal from the overturned Marihuana Tax Act of 1937. Leary v US, the Supreme Court decided it was infringing on 5th amendment rights. In essence Nixon took the Jim Crow laws after deciding they were unconstitutional and called them the Bob Smith laws and then lumped in hippies and jews. This is the integrity of the US government concerning Cannabis. 42 years of toking and not selling since 72 has kept me out of jail, no doubt about it.

Neither Obama nor Ryan can overturn the Congressionally sanctioned CSA or remove cannabis from the Supreme Court ruling as a commerce. Therefore no selling. No buyers clubs. Neither of which Obama ever said he would stop busting. Because he has authority, whereas he has none over individuals in states governing cannabis use. Only CA and Alaska permit recreational use in reasonable amounts. Prop 215 states Anyone for Any reason. Alaska has a Constitutional provision for personal use.  A reasonable amount is deemed by the Feds IND program as 300 joints very 25 days or 12 joints a day. The Feds never budget to eradicate less than 100 plant grow ops, so considering pollination that would leave 49 plants at harvest per person per year. Go back to the 2008 dem debates. They all were for individuals not being busted or using Justice Depo funds. Hilary, Obama and Edwards. Yet none were for ending the Ganjawar.

Because they have no authority. Individuals are subject to state law and enforcement on amounts less than what one would consider commercial, or a reasonable amount one would use. The Buyers clubs are separate and even if covered by Prop 215, which they aren't. Like P502 proposes and will find the same groups blaming Obama after they are raided. Any exchange of product for sale or charity would be overturned by the Commerce Claus and the same "professional" legalizers would cry liar. In this case Obama never lied. He wasn't exactly clear either. Making us think he cared or had compassion when he really has no authority and if he did would probably use it the same as everyone else. It's a GOPer war, of coarse Ryan and Mittney would bust sick people and sellers. Koch has no problem spending the $70k/head each year. 800,000+ busted each year spends more tax and dung worrier profiteers rejoice. A Trillion tax dollars spent and where's Norquist and the Dick Armey? Mittney said the same thing about leaving it to the states and probably knows he can't. We should hope they can't as much as I believe this war is a sham by Wall St to keep a versatile renewable resource too costly. I don't want any elected official thinking they are King and can do what they want. Even if its the right thing to do. Weed out the BS and America will prosper on this plant without the victims caused solely by the prohibition.

"Our problems stem from our acceptance
of this filthy, rotten system." ~ Dorothy Day

Note. Compassionate Use Act not the MMJ Act

A reasonable amount for Anyone for Any reason...
Just can't sell or give it away.

Is The DEA Legalizing THC?

You betcha, If a pharmaceutical product contains THC extracted from the marijuana plant, that would be a legal commodity.

Why Do You Think They Call it DOPE?

"... the primary reason to outlaw marijuana
is its effect on the degenerate races."
~ the Hairy Anslinger

Kochroach & Aleech

Forfeiture $quads

The vast majority of prohibitionists
profit on the drug war,..
... and that is their only motive

QUESTION: In Mexico, there are those who propose not keeping going with this battle and legalize drug trafficking and consumption. What is your opinion?

SECRETARY CLINTON: I don’t think that will work. I mean, I hear the same debate. I hear it in my country. It is not likely to work. There is just too much money in it,

Con Flicts of Interest Bush Barthwell & Drugs

Feds have patents on cannabinoids leaving it with Big Pharma, and Hemp kept from competition with Big Oil. That is what we get when we give infallibility to a political office...

Drug Czar is Required by Law to Lie

Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, and John Edwards all claim they would end the raids on medical patients in med-pot states

Richardson, Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Dodd and Biden all favor keeping non-medical marijuana use criminal

Sen. Obama replied, "I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users.

Obama has no plans to alter the drug war

ELECTION 2008: Your Next President on Drugs by Marc Emery
"Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. is a leader in Congress on combating drug use and stopping the flow of drugs from reaching our shores. In an effort to curb drug use, Senator Biden wrote the law creating the nation's "Drug Czar" who oversees and coordinates national drug control policy. To further 'protect' our kids from the scourge of drugs, Senator Biden wrote the law that triples penalties for criminals who use kids to sell drugs, toughens penalties for selling drugs near playgrounds and schools, and increases penalties for drug use and drug trafficking in prisons. It also provides millions of dollars to give law enforcement officials the resources they need to combat drug use in communities nationwide."

Hillary Clinton's husband, Bill Clinton, was the US president who oversaw marijuana arrests go from 380,689 in 1993 to 734,498 in 2000, the last year of Bill's presidency. In Hillary Clinton's seven years as Senator from New York State, she never once criticized the federal drug war or the New York State Rockefeller laws (mandating extremely long jail sentences for small time distribution). She only recently agreed she would stop federal raids on medical patients as president, but has no credibility on the drug war or the Iraq War - she votes for both.

Obama links

There were two candidates in the Democratic Party who have very positive cannabis reform platforms. In our opinion, the best Democratic candidate is US Congressman Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel, a former senator from Alaska (1969-1981) is a candidate who wants to legalize possession of marijuana, decriminalize hard drugs and treat addiction, and end the Iraq War immediately.

Kucinich: Dem Leaders Just Limousine Liberals?.youtube

Will there be a Colorado surprise? dwr

Check out the calls that are being placed in Colorado right now:

Hello fellow Democrat. Like you I was thrilled to vote for Barack Obama in 2008. In 2008, candidate Obama promised not to use the Justice Department to prosecute medical marijuana in states where it was legal. But the real Obama did just that, more than doubling prosecutions, putting people in prisons and shutting down medical marijuana facilities in Colorado. That’s not the change you wanted on health freedom. But you can still be a force for hope and change by voting for Gary Johnson.

The Johnson campaign is smart. While in most places, they’re more likely to take votes from Romney, in Colorado, they could actually end up taking the state away from Obama. On drug policy alone.

See the full article by David Sirota: The libertarian/marijuana conspiracy to swing the election.

Only by reading things into it. He hasn't changed his position. Only busting those he knows he has jurisdiction over, Buyers Clubs, large grow ops, not individuals. Scheduling cannabis Ganja and Hemp as a #1 narcotic is a bad law that should be overturned. Wall St and the GOP gravy train won't be denied their part of the trillion in tax dollars spent perpetuating this farce of a drug war. To think a president will just whisk it away without a Congress is wishful thinking. A libertarian alone? Ideals are great but to think he can dictate his wishes anymore than any other elected official is naive. If ideals were priorities in elections there would be no wars for profits, especially wars on our own citizens. Even ideals fall short when truth is left behind and this same old lame boring accusation is still wrong. The law is wrong. Obama legal-lezed the same as the rest of them. Individuals are legal federally under states initiatives according to the 10th amendment and the Raich v Gonzales decision declaring exchanges as commerce. Individuals with reasonable amounts are not considered as exchanging. Reasonable amounts have been determined by the IND program. Blaming Obama for not doing what he never said he wouldn't do is gop. Obama is a politician serving vested ignorance. His agenda is less draconian than rmoney's. The system is busted when we have to create jobs by making people sick. Prohibit shelving inventions that compete with the status quo fossil fools. Stop poisoning the population with dioxins, pcb's, radiation and hundreds of chemical and biological adulterations. I still say put them on jeopardy. No Jim Crow gopers, donations can go to the wounded programs gutted by neocons. Instead of back to the media moguls and ad agencies. Impeach the fascists in the Supreme Court and the treasonous dogs in Congress. They will be known by their acts. Not their words. I mean seriously, not taken factually? Drill more, tax less and serve the base the 99% call the elite. 1% of the population is 70,000,000 with vested ignorance in education depravation, union busting and treatment over cures and prevention. Profits are the neocon's mother of invention. Necessity is only useful if its something consumed, not something taking tax money away from profit wars. 40 years we've been asking if we can use the "F" word fascism. If it was a snake it would have bit ya.



Methinks Thou Dost Protest Too Much

“I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.” - Tolstoy

For those with obama short term memory loss... smoke better pot.

ELECTION 2008:
Your Next President on Drugs by Marc Emery
Granite Staters ask each candidate where they stand on DEA raids of medical users and what they would do as President. Senators Joe Biden, Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, and John Edwards all claim they would end the raids on medical patients in med-pot states, but I am unconvinced. Richardson, Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Dodd and Biden all favor keeping non-medical marijuana use criminal, and all five Senators voted to authorize The Patriot Act.

Senator Barack Obama has also smoked pot and calls it a mistake but doesn't regret it. He has consistently voted to fund the Iraq War, but says he's against it. On August 21, during a campaign event in Nashua, New Hampshire, Sen. Obama was asked by GSMM volunteer and seriously ill Nashua resident Scott Turner if he would end the federal raids on medical marijuana patients like him. Sen. Obama replied, "I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources." But America's great black hope is short on substance in every department. Obama has no plans to alter the drug war and his lukewarm rhetoric on medical cannabis patients is an untrustworthy committal. "Not good use of resources" is the lamest of all explanations for opposing a policy.

Toke-A-Day May Keep Old Memory Functioning



Barack Obama Comes Out in Favor of Marijuana Decriminalization
January 31, 2008

For the first time since his presidential bid began, the Obama Campaign has clarified the Senator's position on marijuana: stop arresting people for it.

"I think we need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws," Mr. Obama told an audience during a debate at Northwestern University in 2004.

Update: Tragically, the Obama campaign has now reversed its position on decrim. Most of the above can be disregarded entirely.

Nevermind, Barack Obama Wants to Arrest Marijuana Users After All
February 01, 2008

At first, Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said that the candidate had "always" supported decriminalizing marijuana, suggesting his 2004 statement was correct. Then after the Times posted copies of the video on its Web site today, his campaign reversed course and declared he does not support eliminating criminal penalties for marijuana possession and use.

"If you're convicted of a crime, you should be punished, but that we are sending far too many first-time, non-violent drug users to prison for very long periods of time, and that we should rethink those laws," Vietor said. The spokesman blamed confusion over the meaning of decriminalization for the conflicting answers.

Decriminalization and Legalization - what do they mean?
pete@drugwarrant.com



Does President Obama need treatment? dwr
The recent reminders of the President’s extensive past recreational drug use bring an important issue to the forefront. What will we do with the President? All the relevant authorities have been clear on this subject– there is no such thing as consequence-free recreational drug use. The “first way” has been deprecated by the ONDCP, so it’s unlikely that we’ll see the President cuffed on the side of the tarmac as they search Air Force One. And the “second way” silver bullet of legalization isn’t an option. It’s just not possible for someone to do weed and maybe-a-little-blow and then, without intervention, just go on and write books and become President and stuff. Therefore, it’s clear that he needs treatment. Fortunately, based on the thousands of treatment places I see advertising on and spamming this site, there are apparently some choices available. And it’s possible that his health care plan may cover some of the cost. Read More...

You keep using that word…

The ONDCP is wants you to Celebrate National Substance Abuse Month. Celebrate?

But “celebrate” isn’t the word that they keep abusing. It is, in fact, “abuse.” Check out their definition.

Millions of Americans suffer from substance abuse, which includes underage drinking, alcohol dependency, non-medical use of prescription drugs, abuse of over-the-counter medications, and illicit drug use. … This abuse touches all aspects of our communities and contributes to an estimated $193 billion in crime, health, and lost productivity costs.

I don’t think it means what they think it means.

It’s kind of like saying that all sex outside of marriage is sexual abuse since it hasn’t been authorized by some bureaucrat.

40 Years of Drug War Failure Represented in a Single Chart