Posted on 04/04/2014 4:26:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Obama administration today signaled that it was willing to work with Congress to move marijuana out of the federal outlaw-drug category known as Schedule I.
Under that classification, shared with heroin, ecstasy and other narcotics, marijuana has no legitimate use whatsoever, even for medical research or patient treatment. Lower schedule status, such as II or III, gives drugs limited medical legitimacy.
Today U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, President Obama's top cop, addressed a House Appropriations Committee budget hearing:
We'd be more than glad to work with Congress if there is a desire to look at and reexamine how the drug is scheduled, as I said there is a great degree of expertise that exists in Congress. It is something that ultimately Congress would have to change, and I think that our administration would be glad to work with Congress if such a proposal were made.
The move would not necessarily mean huge changes in a state like California, where you can tell a doctor you have back pain and have a bag of green a half hour later.
And keep in mind that the House is Republican-controlled.
While some conservatives, including Southern California's Dana Rohrabacher, are pro-decriminalization, it would be hard for us to believe Republicans would support some medical legitimacy for pot in a Tea Party world.
In any case, the Drug Policy Alliance explains the impact of rescheduling marijuana this way:
Re-categorizing marijuana would not legalize the drug under federal law, but it could ease restrictions on research into marijuana's medical benefits and allow marijuana businesses to take tax deductions.
Bill Piper, director of national affairs for the alliance, sounded cautions about expecting too much out of any possible rescheduling of the drug:
Rescheduling would be a modest step in the right direction, but would do nothing to stop marijuana arrests or prohibition-related violence. Now that the majority of the American public supports taxing and regulating marijuana, this debate about re-scheduling is a bit antiquated and not a real solution to the failures of marijuana prohibition.
Strangely, DEA chief Michele Leonhart has been making bizarre statements about weed this week.
First she said that voters in Colorado and Washington were essentially coerced into voting to legalize recreational pot. She also said that Mexican drug cartels were infiltrating those states to prepare to sell marijuana at prices cheaper than one could find at a legal retailer.
Then she stated that people should be concerned about legalization because dogs were getting stoned and sick in Colorado as a result of that state's new recreational-pot sales.
One has to wonder, after the president has said he believes alcohol is more dangerous that weed, how long Leonhart is going to last in this Obama administration.
No, the RATs have a religion, and its name is Psychology...the high priests are the psychiatrists. If you believe them, everybody has some kind of mental shortcoming, and if you give the government experts enough time, they will diagnose you with a disorder which requires treatment.
If you don't believe me, just ask some poor schlub who made the grave mistake of asking the DHHS (Department of Hell and Human Sacrifice) to help them with their kids. The DHHS Nazis often take them away, for no good reason, and then proceed to run both the kids and the parents through a Liberal Hell on Earth. They wind up spending thousands of taxpayer dollars on worthless and unneeded "therapies" treating such things as "separation anxiety" and requiring "anger management" classes.
(See: Logan Marr) (See: Janet Reno...child abuse)
The RAT welfare shrinks, diagnosing anyone who requests help, and treating them with drugs, accomplishes several things:
1) It justifies the existence of the myriad of state funded "behavioral therapy" non-profits
2) It makes the medical welfare patient totally dependent on his gubmint drug dealer.
3) It locks the addict in as a RAT voter and buys his vote with your money.
Legalizing pot will just produce more brain-dead RAT voters, totally incapable of critical thinking.
I knew it!
Smoking dope will turn you into a Communist! I'm betting it'll make you go blind too.
It never made any sense to put marijuana on Schedule I with heroin. Even meth and cocaine are Schedule II.
No beer, no peace!
LOL Yes, I resent that guy who came to the door with a shotgun and made me vote for it.
If it happens, can it be smoked in public buildings? If it can I’ll say my tobacco is marijuana. :-)
Anybody who wants to use pot already is. It’s been that way for decades.
Well he is George (the Antichrist) Soros’ boy after all ... he’s spread billions of dollars around toward that end! I am frankly surprised that it took this long for Obongo to push for it.
Its already accessible. In fact, it is easier to get marijuana in schools as a kid than it is outside as an adult.
My problem with it being illegal is terrorists and criminals profit from it and the trade is violent. My problem with legalization is that criminals will still profit from it but becaise they are elected and wear suits there will be less violence in the trade.
I’m excited, I just found two old booklets at a thrift shop, one of which I have wanted for years.
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What does being against the mortgaging of our future (TEA party) and high taxes have to do with legal marijuana? The two are in separate realms. The Left is trying to portray the TEA party as the ultimate in evil conservatives.
I didn’t mention my other problems with it. Soros and his minions want all drugs to be legalized because it creates a dumbed-down population that will vote for those who most appeal to them: Democrats.
You mean Mrs Talbot's entire 5th grade class? Are they selling it to the third graders too?
Governments (federal, state and local) make billions from alcohol taxes, and I don't see any push to put Jack Daniels in school lunches.
“Whiskey’s good for sterilizing wounds too.”
1 year tour in Vietnam.
5 year tour with the Sheriff’s Department.
35 year tour with the first wife.
Whisky is good at sterilizing old wounds.
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