Posted on 03/14/2012 5:16:56 PM PDT by grundle
The only reason this Administration would oppose it would be to position a drug cartel so they have more control over the entire distribution market.
Obama’s a cokehead.
There are any number of medicinal purposes for Whiskey - it is commonly refeered to as the “sovereign specific”, the aid for what ails you.
This is not a joke - alchohol is used in medicine for all kinds of things.
From cough syrup to antiseptics, to anesthesia, ...
This from a dope smokin/Coke snortin TOTUS? I’ll bet he has a stash of both : )
Thankyou for that kind reply.
She was excelling, recognized by her profs and doors opened for her because of it. She would have been one of the best in Neurology. She worked so hard to get there and was crushed at having to leave school. I lovingly call her “my pothead daughter.” I am thankful that she has finally found relief. Those who mock have no idea what they’re talking about. (Or they are perhaps heavily invested in Big Pharma stocks.) It was a godsend.
>>>This isn’t going to win him any votes, I don’t understand it. There must be some political reason for it.<<<
Yes, there is a political reason for it.
It helps the Obama administration to have the people’s emotions and thoughts focused on minor issues that inflame the passions - contraceptives, racial division, smoking weed. While the masses are arguing with each other and divided over relatively small matters, the party can focus on consolidating power and control.
The people who want to vote for Obama probably already will, and those who smoke weed already don’t care about the drug laws. In fact, keeping weed legal assists the Democratic party project of tearing down the country by making rule of law seem petty and pathetic.
Back in my youth I was exposed to a lot of Marxist and Leninist philosophy in my political science classes. Misdirection and agitation propaganda are great tools for the control of the masses. In the meantime, Obama has explicitly made recess appointments when the Senate was in session, had his subordinates tell Congress that they’ll qualify decisions of war based on international approval, ruled without a budget for more than four years... and that’s just off the top of my head. Expect more to come.
God help us.
Meant to write “keeping weed illegal.”
Thirty years ago that was exactly what I believed. If "matters" get any more important no one is going to care what is legal or illegal. Not pot not murder not anything.
Big Pharma is not the problem. Big Gov, and its horde of bureaucrats who would be out of work, are the problem. For example, the main opposition to California's effort to legalize marijuana came from police organizations. As far as I can tell, Big Pharma stayed out of it. See URL below.
http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Measures/Detail.aspx?id=1321713&session=2009
Perhaps but he’s got the eyes of a stoner.
And the only reason that criminals are the source of marijuana is that lying filth like John Walters have fought mightily to keep marijuana illegal.
During prohibition, doctors could, and did, prescribe ethyl alcohol for their patients.
But, like prohibition, the WosD is really about expanding the size and scope of the government than about the health and well-being of the citizenry.
And of course, if we simply legalize pot, all pot-related crime will go away?
No, it won’t.
The reason?
People deal in pot (and all drugs) illegally not because pot is illegal, but because those people are first-and-foremost criminals. They choose crime because of the high-risk:high-profit ratio.
If you legalize pot, guess what. They will still deal pot illegally for the profit. Why? Because they are criminals.
Legalizing drugs will not eliminate drug-related crime. There will always be a black market for cheaper drugs or those that are still illegal.
If you legalize pot, guess what. They will still deal pot illegally for the profit.
Like the mob still deals alcohol illegally? LOL!
Yeah, there is no criminal sales of alcohol in the US.
LOL!!
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