>>>This isn’t going to win him any votes, I don’t understand it. There must be some political reason for it.<<<
Yes, there is a political reason for it.
It helps the Obama administration to have the people’s emotions and thoughts focused on minor issues that inflame the passions - contraceptives, racial division, smoking weed. While the masses are arguing with each other and divided over relatively small matters, the party can focus on consolidating power and control.
The people who want to vote for Obama probably already will, and those who smoke weed already don’t care about the drug laws. In fact, keeping weed legal assists the Democratic party project of tearing down the country by making rule of law seem petty and pathetic.
Back in my youth I was exposed to a lot of Marxist and Leninist philosophy in my political science classes. Misdirection and agitation propaganda are great tools for the control of the masses. In the meantime, Obama has explicitly made recess appointments when the Senate was in session, had his subordinates tell Congress that they’ll qualify decisions of war based on international approval, ruled without a budget for more than four years... and that’s just off the top of my head. Expect more to come.
God help us.
Meant to write “keeping weed illegal.”