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Obama: Pot laws 'important to society'
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Posted on 01/19/2014 8:13:36 AM PST by Sub-Driver

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To: Sub-Driver
‘President Obama said in an interview published Sunday he does not believe marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol and that it was “important” that the legalization of the drug in some states to “go forward” because it would prevent unfair penalties for some users.’

Of cOurse you don't BO YOU WANT YOUR DRUG DEALING FRIENDS TO MAKE A LOT OF MONEY..Are you still smoking pot?I AM ALMOST SURE YOU STILL SMOKE A PACK A DAY OF TOBACCO

21 posted on 01/19/2014 8:42:24 AM PST by PLD
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To: Cementjungle
Alcohol laws should be adjusted to match pot laws since both substances are pretty equal in effects on the user.
A teen caught with one beer should get one year in prison. A six pack should guarantee 20 years in prison. A case of beer, or second offense with one beer should yield life in prison.

You really hate the 8th amendment, don't you?

22 posted on 01/19/2014 8:42:31 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: molson209
marijuana makes you sit around and do nothing just like Obama

Considering the damage he does when he does something, I suggest moving the White House to Colorado for the next three years.

23 posted on 01/19/2014 8:44:28 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
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24 posted on 01/19/2014 8:46:06 AM PST by Slyfox (We want our pre-existing HEALTH INSURANCE back!)
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To: OneWingedShark
You really hate the 8th amendment, don't you?

When it comes to someone enjoying beer or pot in their own homes, only the government knows what is best for you and what your limits should be. Lengthy prison terms, even for first offenders, is the only way to rid the earth of people who like to relax.

25 posted on 01/19/2014 8:47:01 AM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Sub-Driver

Further proof that Obama can turn any subject into an excuse to launch a soliloquy about his favorite topic. Himself.


26 posted on 01/19/2014 8:50:32 AM PST by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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To: Sub-Driver

America approves of this moron. Unbelievable.


27 posted on 01/19/2014 8:51:59 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama: Pot laws important to society.
Kind of like Obamacare you have it but good will it do.


28 posted on 01/19/2014 8:52:22 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Sub-Driver

Sounds like the communist manifesto!


29 posted on 01/19/2014 8:54:51 AM PST by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: OneWingedShark

You’re right.

The fools just refuse to see.


30 posted on 01/19/2014 8:54:59 AM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: allendale

The whole of Western Civilization is in serious decline and will only continue to get much much worse.


31 posted on 01/19/2014 9:00:24 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Mia San Mia)
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To: mountainlion

Soros funded the legalization drives in Arizona. Keep ‘em high and they won’t care who is running the country. An old commie trick.


32 posted on 01/19/2014 9:11:16 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Where are Holder's "po folks" getting the I.D.s to sign up for ObamaCare?)
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"As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid...

As a "kid" or as a young adult? I'm guessing he smoked marijuana at least through his college years.

...and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life.

So pot is "not very different" from cigarettes? Amazing how he says this stuff with a straight face. Cigarettes don't get you high, Mr. president.

33 posted on 01/19/2014 9:14:50 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: molson209

When was the last time jOkeass to a drug test?


34 posted on 01/19/2014 9:15:48 AM PST by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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marijuana makes you sit around and do nothing ...

So do the NFL playoffs, which I plan on watching after I lay in some comfort food.

35 posted on 01/19/2014 9:20:38 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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Sure it did. = “ I want to see more white folks in jail and less colored folks in jail for pot. By the way I smoke cigs, choom and snort a little blow so stop arresting colored folks but bust more white folks”


36 posted on 01/19/2014 9:26:17 AM PST by winodog
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Much as I despise Soros, it was the big drug companies and the Hearst company that promoted the illegalization of hemp and marijuana.

Hearst held huge timberlands used to produce paper. Hemp required much less earth to grow and effort to process than did timber, and he wanted to protect his profits. The drug companies wanted to promote their expensive prescription drugs when drugs could have been made more cheaply with hemp.

The AMA was against the criminalization, but they were fighting Roosevelt’s government. The debate in Congress apparently lasted 92 seconds after yellow journalism and lunatic testimony influenced the law makers.

As with alcohol, it should be restricted among minors, but I notice no ill effects on various of my successful friends.


37 posted on 01/19/2014 10:11:32 AM PST by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: Sub-Driver

Said president of the Choom gang.


38 posted on 01/19/2014 10:13:50 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (In an alternate universe Obama still dips ice cream)
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To: OneWingedShark

Well said.


39 posted on 01/19/2014 10:15:43 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Sub-Driver

How about Arizona enforcing federal law? How about state abortion law? How about state gay marriage laws? I detest Obama.


40 posted on 01/19/2014 10:51:12 AM PST by Organic Panic
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