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Tell President Obama Legalizing Marijuana is No Laughing Matter
202-456-1111 Call. Send a letter. “I’m one of the tens of millions of Americans who believe that cannabis should be legally regulated like alcohol. The American public is ready and willing to engage in a serious and objective political debate regarding the merits of legalizing the use of cannabis by adults. The time for joking [...]
Stash for Mon, Mar 30, 2009
Download link: Secret Stash – Register to access Hemp Headlines President Obama: “Elliot Ness took on Al Capone back during Prohibition, oftentimes that causes even more violence.” VA Sen Jim Webb Definitely Gets It NORML’s Weekly Legislative Round Up Pot and Politics Allen St. Pierre on NORML’s reaction to Obama’s Legalization joke, Jim Webb sentencing [...]
President Obama’s “Al Capone” comments on CBS Face the Nation
Watch CBS Videos Online Bob Schieffer asks the relevant question at the 11:09 mark of the video.
President Used Marijuana but Mocks & Dismisses Legalization
When Mr. Obama said, “It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology” does he realize that is exactly what IS happening with cannabis? Does he know that the government has known since 1974 that pot [...]
Obama’s Marijuana Buzz Kill
OpEd writer Kathleen Parker, regularly featured on The Washington Post, pens an opinion piece for The Daily Beast that wonders why such a flippant response to the marijuana question was given by President Obama duing his online town hall meeting. How hard would it have been to say something like: “Cool idea, brah, but…” OK, [...]
President Obama: “Elliot Ness took on Al Capone back during Prohibition, oftentimes that causes even more violence.”
Bob Schieffer on CBS’s Face the Nation asks Barack Obama about the violence in Mexico and the US inability to stop the flow of guns into Mexico. The President gives a most interesting answer: President Obama: Well, what’s happened is that President Calderon I think has been very bold and rightly has decided that it’s [...]
Chris Weigant: Question For Obama: How About A Science-Based Drug Policy?
So my question for Obama would be, in full: “President Obama, since you have promised to start basing government policy on science and not on politics, will you push to allow all women over-the-counter access to Plan B as soon as possible? And seeing as how one-fourth of the states have made medical marijuana legal, [...]
CNN Political Ticker: Fundraising jump for marijuana group after Obama snub
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Marijuana backers aren’t laughing about President Obama’s flippant dismissal of a pot-related question during Thursday’s online town hall meeting — and the country’s leading marijuana advocacy group, The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, has seen its donations quadruple over the last 24 hours. Allen St. Pierre, the executive director [...]