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Marijuana activists behind last major White House smoke-in give Trump a breather
Washington Examiner ^ | April 20, 2018

Posted on 04/20/2018 6:28:53 AM PDT by deplorableindc

Cannabis activists paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue with flags, banners, a 51-foot inflatable joint, and a plan to get high at 4:20 p.m. two years ago in a last-ditch bid to convince President Barack Obama to administratively legalize marijuana.

Attendees blew smoke through a shofar, took selfies, and reveled in a communal cloud as police watched, but the rally didn't sway Obama, who left office with pot still a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, meaning illegal for any purpose outside limited research.

"I think he will go down among potheads as fitting the stereotype as someone who was lazy. He just sat on the couch," said Ed Forchion, a New Jersey activist who attended the rally, but who currently is jailed awaiting trial for jury tampering after clashes with Trenton authorities.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cannabis; marijuana; pot; potheads; statesrights; wod

1 posted on 04/20/2018 6:28:53 AM PDT by deplorableindc
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To: deplorableindc

President Obama????


2 posted on 04/20/2018 6:31:48 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: deplorableindc
>>"I think he will go down among potheads as fitting the stereotype as someone who was lazy. He just sat on the couch,"


3 posted on 04/20/2018 6:33:58 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: deplorableindc

I think this should be decided at the state level.

I would like to see Trump support abolition of federal regulations on this.
I’d like to see Trump show evidence that the CIA had JFK (the god the Democrats) killed.
I’d like to see Trump show evidence that Hillary (the goddess of the feminists) had JFK jr. killed.
I’d like Trump to show more evidence that Bernie Sanders was stabbed in the back by the Democrat Establishment.

I think the entire base of the Democrats could flip over to Trump by 2020.


4 posted on 04/20/2018 6:38:07 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: deplorableindc

Trump is going to defederalize the situation - as the Constitution demands - and a lot of heads are going to explode.


5 posted on 04/20/2018 6:40:36 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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To: vette6387
Yes. Regrettably, he was president until January of last year.
6 posted on 04/20/2018 6:52:10 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: thoughtomator

And I will laugh and laugh.


7 posted on 04/20/2018 6:53:37 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: deplorableindc

Smoking cannabis like a cigarette? So 1960’s. Anyone who’s seriously into cannabis now use vaporizers, which needs less cannabis because vaporized cannabis “steam” dispenses THC a lot faster than smoking a “joint.”


8 posted on 04/20/2018 7:06:15 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: deplorableindc

One must seriously have a bleeped up life and low self esteem to constantly want to live in unreality.


9 posted on 04/20/2018 7:13:40 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: deplorableindc
Interesting!

Gardner told a group of Washington Examiner journalists Wednesday that the legislation was 80 percent complete, and spokesman Casey Contres said Thursday that he’s “almost finished” with a bill to “protect states’ rights to determine for themselves how best to address marijuana.”

An activist who met with Gardner’s staff Thursday said the draft bill currently takes a limited approach, carving out autonomy for states without comprehensive reform of federal drug law.

“It’s going to be a fairly short bill that protects states that have medical or recreational programs,” said Jonathan Lubecky, veterans and governmental affairs liaison at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, or MAPS. He said he came away with the understanding that "the language would state that under the Controlled Substances Act, states can make their own decision.”

10 posted on 04/20/2018 7:44:22 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree

It’s all about the edibles
15-20 mg or less
Excellent medicine


11 posted on 04/20/2018 8:56:21 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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