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Has the Fed Changed Its Policy on Medical Marijuana Enforcement or Just Changed It’s Reasons for Continued Interference?
In the 16 months since the Obama Administration’s policy change, the DEA has conducted at least 43 raids in California, Colorado, Michigan and Nevada. That’s nearly 3 raids per month on average.
Obama’s Answer To The Failed Drug War (Transcript)
I think the moderator actually might have been trying to steer the President’s answer towards marijuana by adding that since Prop. 19 last fall in California, it’s more on people’s minds now. But former toker Barack didn’t bite. The following text is President Obama’s answer.
President Obama’s Response to Legalization (VIDEO)
Legalization is a legitimate topic for debate? Great! Name the time and place. We’ve been prepping for this debate for forty years. Make it a televised two-hour debate with live online and call-in voting, a la American Idol. The ratings would be historic and you (not we) will be surprised by the results of the [...]
President Obama’s response to YouTube Drug War questions
At its core, however, it retains the premise that responsible adult marijuana consumers must be persuaded by our government, through drug tests, drug courts, forced rehab, and incarceration, into not consuming cannabis.
“Ask Obama” Top 100 Questions About Ending Drug War, Legalizing Marijuana
So here they are, out of 97,344 people who have submitted 77,551 questions and cast 826,973 votes, these are the Top 100 Questions (as of Tuesday, 10pm Pacific). I’ve taken the liberty of color-coding questions about the Drug War in white, questions about you ignoring our questions about the Drug War in yellow, and questions not about the Drug War in red.
Wait, make that the Top 101 Questions, so I can have at least one red question… Click the graphics to read the full-sized version…
Obama Administration Finally Moves to Confirm Leonhart DEA Head
The Head of the DEA, Michele Leonhart, will be officially confirmed today by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Leonhart was nominated by President George W.
Fearless well-armed body-armored DEA raid Las Vegas medical marijuana dispensary
Warning: the following video shows federal agents a week ago engaging in an armed raid of an incredibly dangerous retail medical marijuana shop in Las Vegas. Pay close attention to the peril and risk faced by these brave law enforcers, protected only by goggles, flak jackets, body armor, riot shields, and automatic weapons. Those officers could very well have suffered a paper cut collecting all that paperwork!
Stash for Thu, May 13, 2010
Paul Armentano on the per se DUID standards being pushed by the Obama Admin; Leo Laurence from LEAP on the CAMP eradication campaign; music by DJ Slim.
Obama Drug Policy calls for more drug testing in healthcare
At first read, this might sound like a good idea. Of course you’d want a person’s doctor to be the one they can go to if they have a problem with drug addiction. But when you start talking about detecting their drug use when that use subjects them to criminal penalties, especially within the federal healthcare system of the VA and people receiving Medicare and Medicaid assistance, you then create an incentive not to seek health care.
Obama Drug Policy calls for drugged driving charges for unimpaired marijuana users
Of course, faithful NORML readers and most of the public know that cannabis metabolites can remain detectable in the urine for up to 100 days or longer for a regular cannabis consumer and up to fifteen days for the casual consumer, even after quitting cold turkey. Metabolites in urine don’t tell you a driver is actually impaired, they tell you someone used cannabis, but not when. Even the US Department of Transportation admits that a positive test for drug metabolites is “solid proof of drug use within the last few days, it cannot be used by itself to prove behavioral impairment during a focal event.”