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World Traveler
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 Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 5:57 am Post subject: Obama speaks out on marijuana |
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When I asked Obama about another area of shifting public opinion—the legalization of marijuana—he seemed even less eager to evolve with any dispatch and get in front of the issue. “As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol.”
Is it less dangerous? I asked. |
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| Less dangerous, he said, “in terms of its impact on the individual consumer. |
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/27/140127fa_fact_remnick?currentPage=all
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| “we should not be locking up kids or individual users for long stretches of jail time when some of the folks who are writing those laws have probably done the same thing.” Accordingly, he said of the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington that “it’s important for it to go forward because it’s important for society not to have a situation in which a large portion of people have at one time or another broken the law and only a select few get punished.” |
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Ginormousaurus
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| Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2014 8:45 am Post subject: |
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| The legalization movement has so much momentum right now. It's wonderful. We need that to extend up into Canada. |
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World Traveler
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World Traveler
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| Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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Analysis: Florida Democrats may get buzz from medical marijuana
MIAMI (Reuters) - A November ballot measure to legalize marijuana for medicinal use in Florida could have a decidedly political side effect.
The ballot proposal, which was approved by Florida's Supreme Court on Monday, is so popular it could help Democrats unseat the state's Republican Governor, Rick Scott, who is up for re-election in November.
Democrats believe it could energize their base in a midterm electoral season that generally results in low turn out, while polls show even a majority of Florida Republicans support medical marijuana use.
http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-florida-democrats-may-buzz-medical-marijuana-003416423.html
Prominent Orlando attorney John Morgan, the former employer and a longtime backer of Crist, has pumped $3 million into the ballot effort that collected 1.1 million signatures.
He denies the marijuana initiative was planned by Democrats as an election ploy.
"I never saw this as a get out the vote trick. I saw it as the right thing to do," he said. |
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Captain Corea
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| Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Ginormousaurus wrote: |
| The legalization movement has so much momentum right now. It's wonderful. We need that to extend up into Canada. |
Yeah, it's interesting to see the political winds changing on it so quickly.
I wonder if it'll change more in Canada - but I sort of doubt it. Everyone I ask back home thinks it's (mostly) legal anyway. lol |
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Ginormousaurus
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| Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, it's interesting to see the political winds changing on it so quickly.
I wonder if it'll change more in Canada - but I sort of doubt it. Everyone I ask back home thinks it's (mostly) legal anyway. lol |
I think it's unlikely that the Conservatives will be in any rush to change the status quo. And I don't think Trudeau will be able to unseat Harper in 2015 based on his pro-legalization stance alone. But I'm sure that if the legalization experiments in Colorado and Washington are a success, many more states will follow. Once legalization is firmly entrenched in many states, Canada may then follow suit.
It may seem practically legal in some places in Canada, but I still run the risk of supporting real criminals if I have to seek out a new dealer everytime I move to a new city. I'd much rather buy it from a business that pays taxes and provides employees with a living wage. |
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World Traveler
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guavashake
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Chaparrastique
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| Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 6:58 am Post subject: Re: Obama speaks out on marijuana |
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| World Traveler wrote: |
| I smoked pot as a kid |
..so the president of the USA would not be good enough to qualify for an E2. |
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World Traveler
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Hyeon In
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| Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 9:50 am Post subject: Re: Obama speaks out on marijuana |
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| Chaparrastique wrote: |
| World Traveler wrote: |
| I smoked pot as a kid |
..so the president of the USA would not be good enough to qualify for an E2. |
He could get an E1 and teach constitutional law or something though? If he's ever desperate. |
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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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| Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 10:40 am Post subject: Re: Obama speaks out on marijuana |
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| Hyeon In wrote: |
| Chaparrastique wrote: |
| World Traveler wrote: |
| I smoked pot as a kid |
..so the president of the USA would not be good enough to qualify for an E2. |
He could get an E1 and teach constitutional law or something though? If he's ever desperate. |
If he doesn't have an arrest record, than he would get in fine. Plus, being a Harvard grad and ex-president he could have his pick of uni positions. |
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World Traveler
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World Traveler
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| Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 6:30 am Post subject: |
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US drug policy fuels push for legal pot worldwide
From the Americas to Europe to North Africa and beyond, the marijuana legalization movement is gaining unprecedented traction — a nod to successful efforts in Colorado, Washington state and the small South American nation of Uruguay
http://news.yahoo.com/us-drug-policy-fuels-push-legal-pot-worldwide-130121981.html |
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Ginormousaurus
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