Where's the stage? Spurious Generalities > Politiw00kchat
Pakalolo and the Choom Gang
PG:
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If things continue along this trajectory, in 2020 the US President will have been a weed dealer at one point in his life...
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redrum 2020!
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Lulz
runawayjimbo:
--- Quote from: Buffalo Budd on May 27, 2012, 08:16:30 AM ---
--- Quote from: goodabouthood on May 26, 2012, 11:12:08 AM ---I'm proud of him.
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I know you guys are somewhat joking, but let's not forget that Richard Nixon would be proud of the escalation of the War on Drugs under President Interception.
Superfreakie:
--- Quote from: runawayjimbo on May 29, 2012, 07:51:58 PM ---
--- Quote from: Buffalo Budd on May 27, 2012, 08:16:30 AM ---
--- Quote from: goodabouthood on May 26, 2012, 11:12:08 AM ---I'm proud of him.
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I know you guys are somewhat joking, but let's not forget that Richard Nixon would be proud of the escalation of the War on Drugs under President Interception.
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Just wait till the second term. That's when he's going to go all "leftist" on your asses. There'll be dispensaries and gay massage parlours on every corner. In fact, I'm very much looking forward to visiting the land of Sodom come December.
runawayjimbo:
--- Quote from: Superfreakie on May 29, 2012, 08:16:53 PM ---
--- Quote from: runawayjimbo on May 29, 2012, 07:51:58 PM ---
--- Quote from: Buffalo Budd on May 27, 2012, 08:16:30 AM ---
--- Quote from: goodabouthood on May 26, 2012, 11:12:08 AM ---I'm proud of him.
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I know you guys are somewhat joking, but let's not forget that Richard Nixon would be proud of the escalation of the War on Drugs under President Interception.
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Just wait till the second term. That's when he's going to go all "leftist" on your asses. There'll be dispensaries and gay massage parlours on every corner. In fact, I'm very much looking forward to visiting the land of Sodom come December.
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Zero crime since he's gonna take all the guns and everyone will be healthy thanks to all the free Z-packs for the sniffles and MRIs for a headache and death panels for those pesky and expensive burdens old people.
Also, this made me LOL
V00D00BR3W:
--- Quote from: runawayjimbo on May 29, 2012, 07:51:58 PM ---
--- Quote from: Buffalo Budd on May 27, 2012, 08:16:30 AM ---
--- Quote from: goodabouthood on May 26, 2012, 11:12:08 AM ---I'm proud of him.
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I know you guys are somewhat joking, but let's not forget that Richard Nixon would be proud of the escalation of the War on Drugs under President Interception.
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I finally got around to reading the recent Rolling Stone interview with BHO, and they pointedly ask him about that. While I may not like it, I have to acknowledge that Obama is correct in saying that the executive branch's job is to enforce laws, and it's Congress, not Barack Obama, who's to blame for marijuana being illegal.
--- Quote ---Let me ask you about the War on Drugs. You vowed in 2008, when you were running for election, that you would not "use Justice Department resources to try and circumvent state laws about medical marijuana." Yet we just ran a story that shows your administration is launching more raids on medical pot than the Bush administration did. What's up with that?
Here's what's up: What I specifically said was that we were not going to prioritize prosecutions of persons who are using medical marijuana. I never made a commitment that somehow we were going to give carte blanche to large-scale producers and operators of marijuana – and the reason is, because it's against federal law. I can't nullify congressional law. I can't ask the Justice Department to say, "Ignore completely a federal law that's on the books." What I can say is, "Use your prosecutorial discretion and properly prioritize your resources to go after things that are really doing folks damage." As a consequence, there haven't been prosecutions of users of marijuana for medical purposes.
The only tension that's come up – and this gets hyped up a lot – is a murky area where you have large-scale, commercial operations that may supply medical marijuana users, but in some cases may also be supplying recreational users. In that situation, we put the Justice Department in a very difficult place if we're telling them, "This is supposed to be against the law, but we want you to turn the other way." That's not something we're going to do. I do think it's important and useful to have a broader debate about our drug laws. One of the things we've done over the past three years was to make a sensible change when it came to the disparity in sentencing between crack cocaine and powder cocaine. We've had a discussion about how to focus on treatment, taking a public-health approach to drugs and lessening the overwhelming emphasis on criminal laws as a tool to deal with this issue. I think that's an appropriate debate that we should have.
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