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Obama does not favor changing pot laws … 'at this point'

What are you smoking?

President Barack Obama doesn’t think cracking down on individual pot smokers is a good use of federal dollars, but he also doesn’t think it’s time to loosen the country’s marijuana laws … at least ”at this point.”
That’s the message from White House spokesman Josh Earnest, who told reporters at the daily press briefing that Obama’s views have been “clear and consistent for some time now.”
“The priority in terms of the dedication of law-enforcement resources should be targeted towards drug kingpins, drug traffickers and others who perpetrate violence in the conduct of the drug trade,” and not individual users, Earnest said. But “the president does not, at this point, advocate a change in the law.”
Currently, the federal government lists marijuana — or, as this helpful Drug Enforcement Agency handout suggests, “Aunt Mary, BC Bud, Blunts, Boom, Chronic, Dope, Gangster, Ganja, Grass, Hash, Herb, Hydro, Indo, Joint, Kif, Mary Jane, Mota, Pot, Reefer, Sinsemila, Skunk, Smoke, Weed, and Yerba” — as a “Schedule 1” drug, alongside heroin, LSD, ecstasy, methaqualone and peyote.

Those are “drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. Schedule I drugs are the most dangerous drugs of all the drug schedules with potentially severe psychological or physical dependence,” the DEA says.

The DEA also says marijuana has “no currently accepted medical use in the United States.” That puts "The Man" at odds with quite a few states and Washington, D.C. — the “laboratories of democracy.”
“There are 20 states that have med marijuana laws, there are 16 states that have decriminalized possession and then two states — Colorado and Washington — have legalized it,” Allen St. Pierre, the executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), said.
“The president has clearly evolved regarding a couple of different subject matters over the course of his presidency,” St. Pierre told Yahoo News by telephone. That was an obvious reference to Obama's embrace of gay marriage.
“We suspect that this former marijuana aficionado will, too, evolve on this subject matter as the American public has. That’s what politicians do,” he added.
States that have taken steps to permit marijuana use and possession are “clearly putting upward political pressure on the federal government to end cannabis prohibition,” St. Pierre said.
https://news.yahoo.com/-obama-does-no...184905783.html

[FirstTracks]

This is like when someone says, "I don't want to date you......right now."


clear and consistent as the weather in the rockies

[rives]

I had no idea that peyote was listed as Schedule 1. What happened to it being legal for Native American Church use?

[lord bongington]

the corporate terrorists pulling his strings

Obama is a puppet

[OLDproLg]

^^like all presidents......

And were the sheep.
Lg

[OrganicBuds]

Why would you even say his name?

[RedBeardy5]

say one thing and do another... sounds like a typical desperate politician.

Something to consider with Obama is the fact that his administration has allowed marijuana laws to expand greatly. At first glance most of your responses are going to be, "He has had more raids on dispensaries than Bush did." I will agree.

However you have to get over the emotions, and look at what his administration has said. "If dispensaries are clearly following State law we will not intervene."

California, Washington, Oregon, Michigan, none of them have "clear laws."

Now Colorado has a clear law, but what you have seen in the past is that the Federal Government has messed with the Dispensaries that were less than 1000 foot from a school, or involved in back door sales.

His administration is helping write the new laws that will Govern our industry for decades without actually saying they are. Obviously the 1000 foot rule is important. Thus they have enforced it even in Colorado. Obviously back door sales are important to them.

Now don't get me wrong, I think Obama is a hypocritical piece of shit, but when you uncloud your judgement from the emotions you will see that he has pushed harder than anyone for the States to setup clear concise laws for marijuana sales.

He has obviously done it in an unorthodox way, but is it really? It is actually sneaky as fuck. He can look hard on "drug dealers" while really pushing for strict regulations on marijuana.

It actually is brilliant as fuck. For this reason I know it is not his idea.

[floralheart]

Obama doesn't think or do anything without permission.

If you believe we have a legit president, I have a $5,000 pack of beans to sell you.

[EducatedHippy]

simple:obama is a puppet