Posted on 12/23/2008 10:20:03 AM PST by kennedy
Broken clock....and all that jazz. As the coolest POTUS ever he really should legalize the devil weed. I really thought Clinton would do it. What a phony he turned out to be.
0bama can’t decriminalize anything. Congress can, and The 0ne can sign it, but acting on his own is something he can’t do.
Decriminalizing all drugs is a Soros goal
and zerO is a Soros puppet
Follow the money to see who will get rich(er) during zerO’s regime.
Dead drug users and lives lost to addiction are “acceptable collateral damage” to these people. It is horrible.
I would like to see it decriminalized, too...PLUS, perhaps they can begin using hemp as a fossil fuel.
I don’t have back-up for this, but I’ve heard that the oil/gas companies were behind making hemp illegal since it can be used as a fossil fuel...and at a much cheaper rate.
“decriminalize” does not mean “make it legal”. It means civil penalties and rehab as opposed to decades in Terminal Island.
Massachusetts “decriminalized” last election; fine of $100 for posession of less than one oz and rehab for minors caught with pot.
He should have at least made it legal to puff but not inhale.
I think there'll be a push to legalize it. Under that circumstance, any ideas?
Pot is like buying a soda in Hawaii. While driving around Hana years ago, I saw guys were selling pot publicly on the streets, really pathetic.
Ummmmm. The Dali Obama can’t legalize dope. We aren’t a monarchy yet. I know that’s what the libs want, but not yet.
However I would love to see the stupid drug war ended. It’s already lost completely. Only a handful of profiteers and Pharisees support it any more.
Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds probably already have the blueprints drawn and marketing developed.
Is that a Monica quote?
decriminalize it so that government can tax it for more revenue
“Weed will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no weed”
.....The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
There would need to be lots of new laws about DUI, testing, employment, lawsuits for employers who still test for pot use, and so on. Plus taxes taxes taxes.
Worst part is, instead of DEA busting you for possession, now BATFE goes after “bootleggers” who dare to posess or sell homegrown or other out-of-federal-control weeds.
This might seem harsh but there is such a thing as self cleansing of the gene pool.
Drugs, mind altering substances, have been around for as long as there have been humans.
You will not stop people that want to use them from using them.
Those that are too weak willed to resist addiction normally know they are too weak willed to resist. They should never use them. If they do, and become addicted, it is their fault, not the drugs fault.
As I said, this may seem harsh but it's also a fact of life.
That’s what I want to deal with. Some idiot who is lethargic and doesn’t care or know what he is talking about. What a conversation that would be.
No thanks.
The bureaucracy of the war on drugs is a monster that Obama might not want to mess with. The number of people who depend on it for their livelihood might be more than the number of people who could be employed by legalization. Every local law enforcement branch has some kind of paramilitary, SWAT like team, with dogs, machine guns, armored vehicles and so on. How many cops are kept employed just to break into houses and terrorized dope dealers, not that they always get the right house? There are county, city and State policemen to think of in practically every town in the US, and an economy of Billions. Then there are the various federal, law enforcement agencies to worry about, tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of officers that are there for the drug war could be displaced, not to mention all of the paramilitary teams and equipment they have. Then we have the prisons that are filled with drug dealers and users. How many corrections officers are employed by them? We are talking billions of state and federal dollars here, and the good part is that it will never go away. There will always be plenty of drugs to keep users happy while providing millions of drug war related jobs. Once marijuana is decriminalized, the rest will follow, and a lot of people with no job skills outside of law enforcement will be unemployed during a prolonged, economic downturn.
Sorry, I’m at work on lunch and only see a red X.
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