President Obama Fumbles and Punts Medical Marijuana Question on Campaign Trail

• Yes, this goes through my mind every time I hear someone say 'prescription for marijuana/cannabis'. 

• Jesus said to do unto others as we would have them to do unto us. None of us would want our child thrown in jail with the sexual predators over marijuana. None of us would want to see an older family member’s home confiscated and sold by the police for growing a couple of marijuana plants for their aches and pains. It’s time to stop putting our own family members in jail over marijuana.    If ordinary Americans could grow a little marijuana in their own back yards, it would be about as valuable as home-grown tomatoes. Let's put the criminals out of business and get them out of our neighborhoods. Let's let ordinary Americans grow a little marijuana in their own back yards.    Here's one way that IT IS REALLY WORKING: Arresting the criminals and collecting a fee from registered growers (and bringing in thousands of dollars to support the county budget); what a great plan! This is the way to build a better America! http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/2011/07/the-pot-republic-one-sheriffs-quietly-radical-experiment.html    The current proposal before Congress, bill HR 2306, will allow states to decide how they will regulate marijuana. You can email your Congressperson and Senators at http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml to discuss HR 2306. And a big THANK YOU to the courageous, freedom loving legislators, governors, and countless others who are working so hard to bring this through! You’re doing a great patriotic service for all of America!

• From William F. Buckley, arguably the most influential Conservative of the 20th Century: "The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help, and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents... Narcotics police are an enormous, corrupt international bureaucracy ... and now fund a coterie of researchers who provide them with 'scientific support' ... fanatics who distort the legitimate research of others" -- William F. Buckley, Commentary in The National Review, April 29, 1983, p. 495 And one from the prestigious medical journal the Lancet that's perfect for Obama stammering and side-stepping this issue: "Cannabis has become a political football, and one that governments continually duck. Like footballs, however, it bounces back. Sooner or later politicians will have to stop running scared and address the evidence: cannabis per se is not a hazard to society but driving it further underground may well be."  -- The Lancet - Volume 346, Number 8985, November 11 1995 - "Deglamorising cannabis"  

• He needs to simply address the facts.  MJ has never killed anyone in the 6,000 years of recorded use,  our founding fathers grew and used it while building a nation, and the AMA staunchly opposed the Schedule 1 classification.  Yes, he will lose his rightwing, "christian" conservatives, but he's already lost them.  No politician, barring Ron Paul, has the cajones to man-up and address the facts.  They're just too scared.  I voted for Obama and appreciate his direction to the DEA to not prosecute dispensaries, but he needs to do more.  It needs to be re-classified as a Schedule 2 or even 3.  Why is that so hard when former Surgeon Generals feel the same way?  Not sure I'll give him another vote if he doesn't do something about this issue.  It's California's largest export, estimated at over 10 billion dollars a year, but noone is making any revenues from it.  Legalize, tax, and let's let this entire "reefer madness" b.s. die off into history with the other silly ideas such as the world being flat, cigarettes are good for you, and alcohol is safer.  Grow a pair, mr. president.

• If our President doesn't know that it is ILLEGAL for a doctor to PRESCRIBE cannabis, what the heck is he even doing talking about it for? Maybe he would be better off saying 'I don't know, I am a bit ignorant of it all'. In 16 states a doctor CAN say it might be more beneficial than dangerous for an individual, but they can't counsel on how or where to get it, and NO pharmacy can allow it because the FDA is hindered by the DEA and why the heck is the Drug Enforcement Agency more worried about keeping it illegal, than letting any legitimate research be done. For the President to play so coy with facts, either shows he is oblivious to the situation, or just looking for double talk to fill in the places where there is silence.

• Man he is just SO ARTICULATE. It's really "shocking" he's doing such a piss poor job running the country. I've never in my life seen a double kick in the nutts like the last two clowns in the white house. Have there ever been two worse presidents EVER? Between bush and obummer, even jimmy carter starts to look coherent. 

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