Obama: Pot laws 'important to society'

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[Sub-Driver]

That made zero sense..........

[molson209]

marijuana makes you sit around and do nothing just like Obama

[allendale]

Obama is decadent and dangerous. Yet it is no accident he was elected. American culture is clearly in decline.

[grania]

That made zero sense...

It's disturbing because up until now the rhetoric has been that pot smoking laws should not be relaxed for youth.

I get very nervous about legalizing anything that's accepted by the risk takers in society, but not the more toe-the-line elements. Why? Because if it's legal, it no longer meets their need to stretch the boundaries. So, if everyone can smoke pot, those risk-takers that stretch the rules, but just enough to be outside the norm will have to do something worse to meet that personality need.

[James C. Bennett]

There are way too many people who don’t belong in prison, put there due to the nefarious collusion between lawmakers and lobbyists for prison operators, turning marijuana smokers into hardened criminals through their exposure to hardcore criminals in prison.

The “war on drugs” has done more damage to eliminating American freedoms than anything else, bar the “patriot act”.

[Don Corleone]

This from the “Choom Room Kid”. Populate America with “Stoners” and he can rule forever.

[mountainlion]

George Sorros pulling strings again, Tides foundation his tool.

[MeshugeMikey]

heres a GEM

“ot very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life”

up through a big chunk....

that must be community organizer speak...

[ilovesarah2012]

Populate congress with RINOs and he can rule forever.

[palmer]

It is odd that he smokes but his wife gets the munchies.

[EagleUSA]

Spoken like a true drugged-out pot head.

Be proud Congress. You let it continue to happen.

[kabar]

Selective enforcement of the laws.

[JPG]

[Cementjungle]

It's disturbing because up until now the rhetoric has been that pot smoking laws should not be relaxed for youth.

Alcohol laws should be adjusted to match pot laws since both substances are pretty equal in effects on the user.

A teen caught with one beer should get one year in prison. A six pack should guarantee 20 years in prison. A case of beer, or second offense with one beer should yield life in prison.

[andyk]

Selective enforcement of the laws.

Bada-bing.

[P.O.E.]

It is odd that he smokes but his wife gets the munchies.

LOL. You should apply for a grant to study the effects of second-hand pot smoke.

[Klaatu Barada Nikto]

I see he quickly went from “pot isn’t bad” to drug laws are racist.

[onedoug]

Man, I could be totally wasted beyond all proportion on whatever and I’d still never vote for that little islamist.

[Chode]

[OneWingedShark]

The “war on drugs” has done more damage to eliminating American freedoms than anything else, bar the “patriot act”.

I'd actually disagree with that; the War on Drugs has been the single biggest destroyer of liberties in America. Consider:

1. There is no constitutional authority for the federal regulation of drugs.
2. Because of #1, the authority must be derived from somewhere: this somewhere is the commerce clause
3. Because of #2, the power to regulate interstate commerce must be transformed into the power to regulate intrastate commerce.
4. From the need of #3, Wickard is flatly established as "settled law" and precedent.
5. #4 necessitates the elevation of precedent to the level of Constitutional Law (actually trumping it, when desired).
6. #4 also is reinforced by making non-commerce regulatable under the interstate commerce powers (see Raich).
7. The asset forfeiture laws make it profitable for police to make drug-related "busts".
8. #7 also pressures the Judiciary to sign off on warrantless searches.
9. #7 and #8 pressures the Judiciary to excuse violence done by the police on the people.
10. All of the above concentrate power into "the authorities" and allow them to excuse violations of the strictures imposed on them by the law.

I cannot think of a single policy that has done so much damage to liberty.