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Is Legalizing Weed Obama's Secret Weapon?
Atlantic Wire ^
| June 13, 2012
| Elspeth Reeve
Posted on 06/14/2012 9:58:10 AM PDT by yoe
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To: yoe
FDR promised to end Prohibition and got elected.
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06/14/2012 10:58:02 AM PDT
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Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: yoe
That ought to insure the paulbot vote!
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posted on
06/14/2012 11:13:05 AM PDT
by
X-spurt
(Its time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
To: yoe
That is the exact type of wedge issue that will cause disruption within the Democrat party for years to come. If the party-backed incumbent president supports legalizing dope nationwide, it will be hard for Dems who want to be perceived as meat and potatoes types to make a stronf contrast without weakening party unity.
Besides that, outright leaglization would open the same Pandora’s box that Lawrence v. Texas opened up; before, under Bowers v. Hardwick, there was NO way to promote laws to change the definition of marriage. Once pot is legal, can employers test for it? Yes? But not without taking flack that they haven’t had to take until now.
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06/14/2012 11:27:13 AM PDT
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Dr. Sivana
("You forget, it isn't who you claim, but instead, who claims you. We don't claim you!")
To: stuartcr
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06/14/2012 12:31:11 PM PDT
by
clbiel
(Islamophobia: The irrational fear of being decapitated)
To: yoe
Obama hasn't done anything to indicate he supports marijuana legalization. The feds have been cracking down on the quasi-legal medical pot industry in California and elsewhere ever since Obama took office.
Legalizing marijuana could result in the Mexican drug cartels—60 percent of whose illegal export profits are from pot—losing control of the U.S. market.
This is a dated story but it is a credible picture of how illegal drug profits find their way to Democratic causes:
http://www.aim.org/special-report/the-hidden-soros-agenda-drugs-money-the-media-and-political-power/
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06/14/2012 4:19:24 PM PDT
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Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Actually it was Herbert Hoover who spoke for the repeal of Prohibition in his acceptance speech of 1932. He lost. It was ended in December 1933 not by FDR but with the 21st Amendment.
To: yoe
Let him. Half his base won’t show up to vote until the next day.
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06/14/2012 6:20:52 PM PDT
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Secret Agent Man
(I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
To: Gaffer
Don't sell Barry and his fellow travelers short. They are plenty stupid.
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