jimboland.com — Recently, President Obama was asked by an audience member about legalizing marijuana, so that it could be regulated and taxed. The President?s response was unsupportive of marijuana legalization, although the Obama administration?s Attorney General Holder has signaled an end to DEA raids on medical marijuana dispensaries.
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hockey13Mar 30, 2009
@C0ntraRadicalThe reason why it's disappointing is because Obama is in a perfect stage to stare reality in the face. He has science and 42% of the country behind him with an opportunity to cut costs, help boost the economy (including the tourism trade which has fallen significantly), and end a major injustice, the victims of which number in the hundreds of thousands every year. He has this chance and he refuses to use it because he thinks it's a fringe issue...as if it isn't a major social and healthcare crisis all of its own.Legalization won't "save" the economy, because the pot black market already positively affects the country to some extent, but the production would become localized, prices would fall (freeing up disposable income for other goods), and more Europeans, Asians, Africans, Canadians, Mexicans, etc. would find the vacation cash to visit the good old USA.
chrisdjohnsonMar 30, 2009
Absolutely correct. Do you know how many millions of prescriptions of Prozac and other SSRI's prescribed to people that just have a bit of anxiety would disappear overnight if Marijuana was legalized?!
latrosicariusApr 6, 2009
"Let's try to f**king save this economy first, shall we?"And what a great job he's doing in that regard as well. Continuing the Bush legacy of bailouts, stimulus packages, and overspending.If you voted for Obama because you thought he would save the economy, you're retarded too. He is no great economist and his cabinet appointees aren't either. Ron Paul was the only one saying anything rational about this in the primaries and nobody cared.
Closed AccountApr 7, 2009
last summer.
buzzfriendlyApr 7, 2009
weed=bad cause it is illegal Oxycontin=good cause your dr gave you a script. See kiddies stick with your pharmaceutical companies they are looking out for you best interest.
Closed AccountApr 11, 2009
I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt - it took bush several years to screw things up as badly as he did, so it's pretty reasonable to assume that it'll take obama several to get things back on track - maybe more.
reddog_x2000Apr 17, 2009
Collectivists on both sides of the spectrum love to do that. By doing that they're saying that they knows he's right and they're amused at your little attempt to question them. It's a very effective tactic. It reassures their sheeple that they're right. It discourages others from questioning. And,it makes the person who does the questioning look and feel like an idiot. Well, that's the intent anyway. Sometimes it simply pisses off those brave enough to think for themselves & makes them more determined to show that the emperor has no clothes.
joelraittApr 18, 2009
Agreed! Those giant, corrupt, pharmaceutical companies have their hands on everything. I do not smoke it at all, but I believe it should be legalized. The tax, control, the effect on the billion dollar underground market...its Economics..it makes sense. I wonder though, over the last 7 years the % of teens smoking weed has declined every year, now about 3/10 do it...is what we are doing working? Either way, I hate those huge companies that just F with us! If you want a cool, free course on natural vs modern medicine check out <a class="user" href="http://www.herbalhealthhelpers.com">http://www.herbalhealthhelpers.com</a> It talks about what these companies are doing to control the population and make billions! Very interesting stuff.....I get mad reading it though lol
blackdiceMay 3, 2009
This is an issue conservatives, liberals, libertarians and everyone in between can get behind. We didn't elect our public servants to babysit us. Dugg for a statement of pure and simple logic.
nietzscheanxJun 2, 2009
Your logic is irrelevant here because the marijuana was in fact distributed under a prescription in this case.
nietzscheanxJun 2, 2009
True but it need not be burried, only pointed out.
nietzscheanxJun 2, 2009
I've never actually thought to report someone as being offensive but you can be # 1Not to mention how amazingly open your level of ignorance is in display.