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President Obama, YouTube, ignores “inappropriate” most-popular video question on marijuana legalization
President Obama and YouTube spent 1 hour 49 minutes responding to the people and completely ignored the question of marijuana legalization that made up 105 of the top 160 questions submitted.
President Obama’s YouTube Forum deems marijuana legalization questions “inappropriate”
UPDATE: As of 7pm Pacific, I checked the YouTube.com/WhiteHouse page to see how many votes our question received. The good news? Our question, “With over 850,000 Americans arrested in 2010, for marijuana charges alone, and tens of billions of tax dollars being spent locking up non-violent marijuana users, isn’t it time we regulate and tax [...]
NORML’s Legalize Marijuana Petition #1, legalization half of top ten petitions
For the ninth time, the Obama Administration uses internet technology to solicit questions from the people on public policy.
Once again, marijuana legalization dominates the process.
Legalize Marijuana! The Silenced Scream of America
When taxes, budget, and jobs top the Twitter ranks, it is because Twitter has its finger on the pulse of American political concerns. But if it is marijuana legalization, it is only because a small fringe stoner element is disproportionately represented online. Considering the standard set by the drug war for ignoring the simplest explanations, defying the most basic logic, and burying contradictory science, Twitter’s silencing of the legalization scream is really no surprise.
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.
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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.
Village Voice mocks “YouTube Stoners” at “Ask Obama” Forum
There are 25,000,000 of us, Miles, who will consume cannabis this year. We tend to be better educated and have higher incomes than those who don’t. Rather than reaching for tired stoner stereotypes and pot pun headlines, why don’t you apply Occam’s Razor and realize that ending the drug war is a major concern among a vast number of Americans, some of whom don’t even use cannabis?
LEAP’s “Ask Obama” Question #1, Scores 13,000 votes
193,060 people have submitted 139,679 questions and cast 1,380,616 votes.
The top question, submitted by Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, garnered 13,842 votes – over 1% of all votes cast (people could vote for more than one question).
Of the 193,060 people who voted more than 7% voted for the LEAP question. That’s about one in fourteen people who took the time to Ask Obama.