Comments on: Obama’s AG nominee supported 5-year minimum sentences for marijuana possession http://stash.norml.org/obamas-ag-nominee-supported-5-year-minimum-sentences-for-marijuana-possession The Growing Truth About Cannabis Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:00:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Eddie http://stash.norml.org/obamas-ag-nominee-supported-5-year-minimum-sentences-for-marijuana-possession/comment-page-1#comment-2939 Eddie Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:37:48 +0000 http://stash.norml.org/?p=1919#comment-2939 "Change you can believe in"? Sounds more like "Bullshit you can bet on"! “Change you can believe in”?
Sounds more like
“Bullshit you can bet on”!

]]> By: moldy http://stash.norml.org/obamas-ag-nominee-supported-5-year-minimum-sentences-for-marijuana-possession/comment-page-1#comment-2927 moldy Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:16:11 +0000 http://stash.norml.org/?p=1919#comment-2927 Thanks Russ! I feel a little better now. Good points... it's just that I was busted 42 years ago and I'm running out of time. I want to see what a new freedom might look like. As a white guy, I want to feel how Jessie Jackson felt when Obama was elected. Thanks Russ! I feel a little better now. Good points… it’s just that I was busted 42 years ago and I’m running out of time. I want to see what a new freedom might look like. As a white guy, I want to feel how Jessie Jackson felt when Obama was elected.

]]> By: "Radical" Russ http://stash.norml.org/obamas-ag-nominee-supported-5-year-minimum-sentences-for-marijuana-possession/comment-page-1#comment-2925 "Radical" Russ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:46:47 +0000 http://stash.norml.org/?p=1919#comment-2925 Maybe I'm smoking too much hope. What would be a greater display of change than to have Biden, Emanuel, Holder, and Ramstad come around to a 21st century view on drugs? Imagine Obama leading them toward a harm-reduction model for hard drugs and toward at least tolerance or medical marijuana states or maybe, if I really hope, federal rescheduling or decriminalization. It has been ten-plus years since these guys espoused such hard-line drug warrior rhetoric. There has been a big election where medical and decrim won by 2-to-1 margins. There are thirteen states with medical or decrim (six with both) and public support of medical marijuana has never been higher. Also, economic realities could provide cover for shy politicians to make a radical shift in their views on marijuana. Hell, Bob Barr now lobbies FOR us, so radical change can happen. I can't see an Obama Administration, so eager to return to the era of reason and science, holding back the development of industrial hemp, when it can also benefit his campaign pledges on job creation, fuel independence, and protecting the environment. I still believe Obama is committed to ending raids on medical marijuana states. Time will tell. So far, the cast of characters in this movie have me concerned, but maybe it's one of those M. Night Shyamalan movies with a really unexpected trick ending. (I am smoking too much hope! ;-) Maybe I’m smoking too much hope. What would be a greater display of change than to have Biden, Emanuel, Holder, and Ramstad come around to a 21st century view on drugs? Imagine Obama leading them toward a harm-reduction model for hard drugs and toward at least tolerance or medical marijuana states or maybe, if I really hope, federal rescheduling or decriminalization.

It has been ten-plus years since these guys espoused such hard-line drug warrior rhetoric. There has been a big election where medical and decrim won by 2-to-1 margins. There are thirteen states with medical or decrim (six with both) and public support of medical marijuana has never been higher.

Also, economic realities could provide cover for shy politicians to make a radical shift in their views on marijuana. Hell, Bob Barr now lobbies FOR us, so radical change can happen. I can’t see an Obama Administration, so eager to return to the era of reason and science, holding back the development of industrial hemp, when it can also benefit his campaign pledges on job creation, fuel independence, and protecting the environment. I still believe Obama is committed to ending raids on medical marijuana states.

Time will tell. So far, the cast of characters in this movie have me concerned, but maybe it’s one of those M. Night Shyamalan movies with a really unexpected trick ending.

(I am smoking too much hope! ;-)

]]> By: moldy http://stash.norml.org/obamas-ag-nominee-supported-5-year-minimum-sentences-for-marijuana-possession/comment-page-1#comment-2923 moldy Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:20:19 +0000 http://stash.norml.org/?p=1919#comment-2923 I really hope I'm wrong. I really hope I’m wrong.

]]> By: moldy http://stash.norml.org/obamas-ag-nominee-supported-5-year-minimum-sentences-for-marijuana-possession/comment-page-1#comment-2922 moldy Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:18:17 +0000 http://stash.norml.org/?p=1919#comment-2922 Well I hate to tell you "I told you so" but any vote for a Democrat or Republican would be a vote for more arrests and deeper despair for our cause. I did vote for Obama just because I was in a battle ground state as I "thought" he had to be better than McCain but this news is devastating. Maybe there’re smart enough to see how some of the "local" referendums turned out? Probably not as Obama can’t do any wrong now. I think we've been duped by our own hope... again. Well I hate to tell you “I told you so” but any vote for a Democrat or Republican would be a vote for more arrests and deeper despair for our cause. I did vote for Obama just because I was in a battle ground state as I “thought” he had to be better than McCain but this news is devastating. Maybe there’re smart enough to see how some of the “local” referendums turned out? Probably not as Obama can’t do any wrong now. I think we’ve been duped by our own hope… again.

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