Obama going to pot?

One News Now ^ | 1/6/2009 | James L. Lambert

[trumandogz]

Yes, I understand that I can get high today and fail a drug test three weeks from now.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

"[Liberals don't] think it's the government's business to tell you how to spend your leisure time[.. er, except for listening to the radio.]"

[gusopol3]

so how can any employer with potential liability take a risk on you ?

[weegee]

Given that employers ALREADY can refuse to hire a TOBACCO smoker and prohibit such activity even OFF company time away from company property, the decriminalization and possible legalization of dope still does not mean that all Americans would be permitted to use said substance (certainly if pilots and even stewardesses are prohibited from drinking, something like 24 hours before a flight), other job fields would employ the same standard.

But then, if you are a dope head, and want to lay on a couch all day, and concede that you can’t get a number of jobs because of the use of pot, then it will drop the unemployment rate by not SEEKING employment. Score one for Obamonics.

[KevinDavis]

I agree.. Personally I think the Drug War has increased the Government ten fold..

[Big_Monkey]

If you put that on a T-shirt, it would be gold. You could sell it to Dummies who love Barry, and Repubs who get the joke. It might even replace the ubiquitous and dumba$$ Che Guevera shirts that are now all the rage.

[utahson]

Libetards will love Obama for doing that then and will put on their knee pads to worship the one. They will vote in droves like mindless zombies to support his reelection because he allowed them to smoke their fat doobies. And that will be the only reason, Obama will make such a move “at the end” of his administration, to secure reelection. And the doobie smoking idiots will reelect him.

[AmericanVictory]

Heey, everything’s cool, man!

We told you it was Jeemy redux.

[Frank_2001]

“Like not beginning a sentence with a capital letter.”

Or addressing people as “DUDE!”;)

[trumandogz]

They take a risk on us all.

[FFranco]

Employers can NOW refuse to hire or maintain employment of workers using LEGAL substances. My wife works at a firm that tests potential and current employees for use of illegal drugs, plus tobacco and alcohol. A few years ago, they were trying to hire a tool and die maker and needed to reject several candidates before they could find one who hadn’t had a few beers over the weekend.

[humblegunner]

check your tag line, scholar.

A capital "C" can be made by striking both the shift key and "C" at the same time.

Try it! You can make grown-up letters like all the cool kids.

[gusopol3]

some risks are defensible, this one is not.

[Arkinsaw]

Unfortunately, there is no way Obama or any president and Congress will do this.

Don't count on that. Did you think there was any way Bush would push through a 700 billion dollar bailout bill and that it would pass even though 90% of Americans of all races and political parties were against it?

Congress does what it does for money. If there is money in it they will do it when money gets tight no matter what the public thinks.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I just want industrial hemp to be legalized.

[gusopol3]

the apostrophe is found at the end of the row beginning with A, and i think you know about the S , scholar PERFESSER.

[AZLiberty]

The War on Drugs has been a complete failure — worse and longer than Prohibition.

[BuddhaBrown]

While Obama’s motives should always be suspect, clearly a FREERepublic should allow folks to be dopes if they so desire.

I fail to see how it is any worse than the much more immediately dangerous consumption of alcohol.

[Islander7]

:-)

[Hawthorn]

>> George Soros wants to decriminalize drugs. <<

Me too. So did my two greatest intellectual heros, Milton Friedman and William Buckley.