Polls Show Marijuana Legalization More Popular Than President Obama

[Ichingcarpenter]

WASHINGTON, DC -Crimebeat- “Late Friday night the White House issued a typical evasive rejection of the several marijuana legalization petitions that collected more signatures than any other issue on its “We the People” website,” stated retired Baltimore narcotics cop Neill Franklin. “Even though recent polls show that more voters support marijuana legalization than approve of President Obama’s job performance, the White House categorically dismissed the notion of reforming any laws, focusing its response on the possible harms of marijuana use instead of addressing the many harms of prohibition detailed in the petitions”.
One of the popular petitions, submitted Franklin, called on the Obama administration to simply stop interfering with states’ efforts to set their own marijuana laws.


“It’s maddening that the administration wants to continue failed prohibition polices that do nothing to reduce drug use and succeed only in funneling billions of dollars into the pockets of the cartels and gangs that control the illegal market,” said Franklin, who also serves as executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a group of cops, judges and prosecutors who support legalizing and regulating drugs. “If the president and his advisers think they’re being politically savvy by shying away from much-needed change to our drug policies, they’re wrong. The recent Gallup poll shows that more Americans support legalizing marijuana than support continuing prohibition, so the administration is clearly out of step with the people it claims to represent. President Obama needs to remember his campaign pledge not to waste scarce resources interfering with state marijuana laws and his earlier statement about the ‘utter failure’ of the drug war.”


This isn’t the first time that marijuana policy reform has proven popular in online forums hosted by the White House. A question from LEAP member and former sheriff’s deputy MacKenzie Allen got the most votes in a White House YouTube forum this January. Marijuana questions also dominated the White House’s “Open for Questions” online town hall in March 2009 and the Obama transition team’s Change.gov website in late 2008. Each time, the administration has issued terse rejections that contradict Obama’s 2004 statement that “we need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws.”

http://netnewsledger.com/2011/10/29/polls-show-marijuana-legalization-more-popular-than-president-obama/

[Tx4obama]

1. Oh bull.

If someone said: Take your pick, you can have President Obama or a kilo of pot - take your pick - I'd take Obama ;)

[the other one]

6. kilo nt

[tama]

7. Any POTUS

ain't worth a poorly rolled joint of leaves and sticks and seeds or the desperate black gooey scrapings of a used bong. Unless he grows it himself, like the one guy did.

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. That sounds like Hash oil

Black Walnuts I think its called.......LOL

[EOTE]

9. Hell, I'd take a dime bag.

And then legal MMJ dispensaries might not have to worry about being shut down.

[LAGC]

2. Between this and gun control becoming less popular each year...

I think its safe to say the prohibitionists are on the losing side of history.

[Tx4obama]

3. There is a difference between decriminalization and legalization.

I am for decriminalization, (stop putting folks in jail/prison due to drug possession)
but legalization is not so good of an idea, it's my opinion and I'm sticking to it ;)

The government makes enough money now off of my cigarettes and alcohol,
they do NOT need to be makin' money from my weed.

[Fumesucker]

10. They make plenty of money from your weed..

Whole police departments are run on asset forfeiture, you don't even have to be accused of a crime to lose your property.

[court jester]

4. If there were any real reporters left in this wasteland they might ask why the US holds a patent

on the use of Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants while stating that there is no medical use
United States Patent 6,630,507
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6630507.PN.&OS=PN/6630507&RS=PN/6630507

but apparently there are none

we are treated like dumbass children by our employees (we have been trained to call them "leaders") and their mouthpieces (which we reward with millions and millions of dollars to mislead and divide us)

So, we the idiot citizens deserve to be ruled by lies and money, and we deserve to be told what we can consume and what we cannot.

Long Live Authoritarianism!!

USA USA USA

One day people might wake up enough to ask where the Federal Government gets the authority to dictate what the citizens can consume. Alcohol prohibition took an amendment to the Constitution, and didn't even prohibit consumption.

How far we have fallen.

Limbo time: How low can we go (thx Dennis)

[Marazinia]

5. Worse, we've been taught to call our bosses superiors

A sickening concept.

I'm for legalization of all of it. If you're an adult, you can peacefully shoot up heroin in your home for all I care. The drug war has done nothing for public safety or for people who genuinely want to stop using drugs.

Alcohol is one of the worst drugs anyway, and that's legal. The hypocrisy is sickening.

That said, activists should not give authorities a reason to arrest them by using illegal drugs. Decide which is more important, being able to use drugs, or freedom. Then choose one, because choosing both is asking for a long prison sentence.

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. Kick n/t

[lindysalsagal]

12. Meet your new legalization poster boy:

"Today has been awesome, gurrrl!"