This along w\ the ATF memo suggesting that medical marijuana gun owners were in fact in felony violation for owning firearms if they smoke pot... jesus, if they weren't high we might see a bigger than #occupy uprising.
Obama promised to keep the fed out of medical marijuana before.. so on his record, just another broken promise.
How do you change the law if most of the people with the power to change the law either don't have the facts, or ignore the facts because they have too many donations coming in from big tobacco, big alcohol and big pharma to give 2 shits about the legality of marijuana?
It's not even a debatable topic. Marijuana was made illegal w\ propaganda and lies. This is simply a fact. If the internet was arround back then and they could view factual information and make an unbiased, logical decision, marijuana would be legal.
Or maybe they prefer cartels to get a bigger share of MJ profits, or just to not see any tax dollars from those dispensaries. Hey... our state is bankrupt. Let's go after an industry giving us millions of dollars in taxes !!!
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You can't even make up how stupid these people are on this issue.
See Eagle Keeper's post below. (Well, it's now above this one. LOL) That's the beauty of representative government; if the people will lead, the leaders will usually follow. It's gotta be grass roots. Think back to the civil rights movement; the Democrat Party wanted no part of it, knowing that it would cost them the racist south, yet the people moved to the point that the Democrat Party faced severe damage if it did not embrace the civil rights movement. Only at that point could we move forward, because the two parties agreed it had to be done, whether from moral or practical grounds. We're now approaching the same thing with gay marriage as more and more people become more liberal on the subject. The penalties for being gay become less, more gay people come out of the closet, more people realize they aren't necessarily so very different, rinse and repeat, and thus the political danger shifts from supporting something to opposing it.
It's always difficult to make major societal changes, and it should be. But as more people come to see pot smokers as something more than worthless stoners, as they see people like Wolf who smoke pot and still function at reasonably high levels, attitudes relax. We've now had two Presidents who were stoners, yet also functional. Attitudes are changing even now. The nagatives are always more visible with something illegal - the 1950s black man who rapes a white woman is much more visible than the 1950s black man who becomes a doctor, the flaming drag queen is much more visible than the gay man who lives quietly with a long term lover, the pot-smoking derelict living by petty theft is much more visible than the pot-smoking lawyer. But these things build up momentum, and change, when it happens, tends to happen fairly quickly. I'm guessing that within a decade or so pot won't be much more controlled than is tobacco (and in California, even less controlled than is tobacco.)