Wed 5 May, 2010
I wonder what became of this marijuana smoker?
Has become the President for the status quo [Warning: it's a pdf]:
Keeping drugs illegal reduces their availability and lessens willingness to use them. That is why this Administration firmly opposes the legalization of marijuana or any other illicit drug. Legalizing drugs would increase accessibility and encourage promotion and acceptance of use. Diagnostic, laboratory, clinical, and epidemiological studies clearly indicate that marijuana use is associated with dependence, respiratory and mental illness, poor motor performance, and cognitive impairment, among other negative effects, and legalization would only exacerbate these problems.
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The Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy strongly endorsed an intensified focus on the south-bound threat. CBP is working to renovate southbound point-of-exit lanes to allow for increased inspection and is hiring personnel specifically for the south-bound mission. DEA is building, in collaboration with state and local partners and other Federal agencies, a network of automated license plate readers to identify likely currency and weapons smugglers. This effort requires close cooperation with local authorities, both to facilitate installation of the cameras and to ensure the information is acted on appropriately.
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Bulk seizures of currency, regardless of who makes the seizure or where it is made, should be treated, to the extent allowable by law, similarly to how drugs or other contraband are treated.
I wonder what the over/under is on how many people will get thrown in jail for smoking marijuana during Obama’s presidency. Do you think he’ll throw more people in jail than Bill Clinton, because I don’t think so. Clinton’s presidency was the 90′s Chicago Bulls of marijuana arrests. That administration had a superstar in Bill Clinton, a star that rode the superstar’s coattails in Al Gore, an underrated workhorse in Janet Reno, and a scrappy white guy that would do whatever he was asked in Barry McCaffrey.
The Obama administration doesn’t that that kind of roster. The best this administration can hope for is a 2000 – 2004 Lakers run. I mean, they have a young future superstar in Barack Obama, a fading superstar in Hillary Clinton, a quiet team player in Eric Holder, and a trashing talking clutch player in Joe Biden. So I see about 400,000 to 550,000 marijuana arrests during Obama’s presidency.
Goddamn, did I just use a sports analogy to compare Clinton’s administration to Obama’s? I really need to stop getting so hi…drunk in the morning.
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Tags: Marijuana, Obama, War on Drugs, When Will This Stupid Fucking Thing EndComments (5)
OHHH!!! says:
While you’d think a democratic president would be the one to eventually decriminalize weed, that goes against control of the people so it won’t be done.
The states that have decrim’d it have been largely from republicans.
Just another reason most democrats should never hold an office of power — like we need another reason…
Phuck Politics says:
@OHHH – The states that have decrim’d it have been largely from republicans.
Just another reason most democrats should never hold an office of power
You’re forgetting that it was Nixon who declared war on drugs and Reagan who redeclared it.
OHHH!!! says:
oh I agree that in the past republicans were the “War on Drugs” dudes. But that’s not the case anymore.
Zhann says:
The war on Drugs has little to do with political party, but more to do with political influence. If those pulling Obama’s strings want a war on drugs, it will happen. This article has already pointed out the hypocrisy in Obama’s speech. It is all simply rhetoric aimed and pleasing a select few. Many benefit from drugs being illegal, unfortunately not many of the ‘We the People’ fame.
Phuck Politics says:
@Zhann – The War on Drugs has always been used as a distraction. Nixon used it to distract people from Vietnam; Reagan used it to distract people from the Iran-Contra scandal; Bush 1 used it to distract people from the invasion of Panama; Clinton used it to distract people from the bombings in Serbia; and bush 2 used it to distract people from Iraq.