Slate 4/19/15: Obama Voices Support for Medical Marijuana in Cable News Interview

[AtomicKitten]

link: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/04/19/obama_voices_support_for_medical_marijuana_in_cable_news_interview.html

In direct contradiction to this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026533107

Excerpt:

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Pres Obama: "You know, I think I'd have to take a look at the details, but I'm on record as saying that not only do I think carefully prescribed medical use of marijuana may in fact be appropriate and we should follow the science as opposed to ideology on this issue, but I'm also on record as saying that the more we treat some of these issues related to drug abuse from a public health model and not just from an incarceration model, the better off we're going to be."

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Posted for DUers perusal. I have to work now, not hit and run. Back later. Cheers.

[blm]

1. Thanks - RW propagandists are busy pretending that Rand is the answer.

Blaming Obama for what they know GOP congress won't take up is considered strategic deception.

They really think Dems are dumb enough to swallow what they cooked up.

[AtomicKitten]

2. As they say, you have to put it down where the goats can get it.

I'm outta here to go work. Have a great day.

[Scurrilous]

3. K & R

[cherokeeprogressive]

4. Maybe if he spoke like that in front of the M$M I'd put some stock in his words...

Until then? He might as well be saying it to the woman who interviewed him whose claim to fame is being a YouTuber who ate cereal out of the tub of milk she was sitting in.

[blm]

5. CNN report on marijuana. Part 3 of 'Weed'

It's a very pro-marijuana documentary.

[cherokeeprogressive]

7. I really don't consider CNN to be M$M, and what are their Sunday night ratings like?

Couple dozen?

[blm]

8. imo, CNN defines M$M and influences the narrative.

For them to actually be ahead on this story speaks to the reality of the future - cannabis is a highly useful and profitable cash crop and those seeking to hold it back will be overridden sooner than later.

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. CNN Primetime tonight