2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIs Clinton progressive? Let's look at her positions on issues. How about legalizing marijuana?
Asked if she supports the legalization of marijuana, a simple yes or no question, she resorts to rhetoric.
She says "we need an approach" That's rhetoric folks. Needing an approach is no commitment to anything.
She goes on to say that she thinks it would be ok to let allow the states to act as "laboratories of democracy". What the hell are "laboratories of democracy? So hey, do you support the legalization of marijuana or not?
She hints that she would favor letting the states legalize the use of marijuana without any federal government interference unless (oh oh here's the catch) unless certain federal guidelines are violated. Then the federal government can step in and overrule the states and throw people in her Prisons For Profits. Hello, that's exactly the way it's handled today. So her answer to the question do you support the legalization of marijuana is to keep the status quo.
I can see were the conservative Clinton would be leery of the legalization of marijuana for recreational use because conservatives long have been against the peons having their freedoms. It's her stand on medical use of marijuana that upsets me the most. She thinks it needs more and more and more studies just like Big Pharma thinks, hmmmm. To deny people suffering, the use of a drug that has been "tested" for years and found to be more effective with less side effects than some of Big Pharma's drugs, seems to me to be not empathetic.
There are a lot of sources of her position on marijuana on the intertubes, hell even her CNN wrote this:
How is that for rhetoric?
So what is her position? "we need an approach".
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... would likely be to "look into it." Kinda like her looking into releasing her GS transcripts.
In other words, that's the last you'd hear from her on it.
EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)For it to be really really really really popular to decriminalize... Then she'll be for it!
vintx
(1,748 posts)EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)Are her principle investors...
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)Hillary has rather unprincipled principal investors.
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EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)...her principle principles are principally unprincipled?
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)uponit7771
(90,301 posts)dogman
(6,073 posts)She may need their votes to replace the LW youth she abandons in her triangulation to win the WH. She has to wait to see where the evidence (really votes) leads.
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)on issues she has absolutely no intention of doing anything about. This could also be her standard answer to whether or not she is going to provide the transcripts of her paid speeches to Wall Street.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)fracking on a couple of pieces of federal lands, phased in over time." "College students should get jobs and states should try really hard to keep tuitions down." "Wall Street should "cut it out" related to bilking Americans out of their homes."
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)When she starts off down one of her rabbit trails about how we need to consider this and look at that and then one day we might do something, like that pathetic dodge and weave she gave on fracking in one of the Town Hall meetings. The woman who asked the question was so disgusted that she was back in her seat before Hillary finally got to the end of her non answer. And of course, nobody was going to be so impolite to follow up with "So is that what you've been telling governments in other parts of the world on fracking, that they need to set a lot of conditions before proceeding? Is that what you've been telling the oil and gas companies that contribute to your campaign and SuperPacs?"
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)-- Pharmaceuticals
-- Alcohol
-- Private Prison Industry
-- DEA (and any other government agencies whose budget relies on the "WoD"
-- Prison Employee Unions
-- Many (certainly not all) Police Unions
Follow. The. Money.
Think any of those groups are on her donor list?
Vote2016
(1,198 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)We need an approach!!! And evidence!
Thanks!
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)> This is empty rhetoric. Nothing useful will come of "we need an approach".
> Is this the Third Way input for "state's rights"?
> Remember when ATF was raiding dispensaries in medical legalized states every other week? I do.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Onlooker
(5,636 posts)Last edited Sat Mar 26, 2016, 02:05 PM - Edit history (1)
He's better than Hillary, but he appears to be pretty silent on the issue in the past. I certainly can't find anything from him prior to his current political campaign. So, given that his base is millennials and Hillary's is older people, both of their stances are politically convenient.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)as Obama has been and Clinton will be.