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Marijuana Legalization Question Gets 1st Place in White... - 1/29/2012 10:18:30 AM   
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WASHINGTON, DC -- A question advocating marijuana legalization from a retired LAPD deputy chief of police won twice as many votes as any other video question in the White House's "Your Interview with the President" competition on YouTube this weekend. President Obama is slated to answer some of the top-voted questions on Monday.

The marijuana question, submitted by Stephen Downing, a board member for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), is as follows: "Mr. President, my name is Stephen Downing, and I'm a retired deputy chief of police from the Los Angeles Police Department. From my 20 years of experience I have come to see our country’s drug policies as a failure and a complete waste of criminal justice resources. According to the Gallup Poll, the number of Americans who support legalizing and regulating marijuana now outnumbers those who support continuing prohibition. What do you say to this growing voter constituency that wants more changes to drug policy than you have delivered in your first term?"


I wonder how that hypocritical former pot-smoking weasel in the White House will react to this...
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RE: Marijuana Legalization Question Gets 1st Place in W... - 1/29/2012 10:20:15 AM   
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RE: Marijuana Legalization Question Gets 1st Place in W... - 1/29/2012 10:24:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		It's just so hypocritical. It's a damn near requirement to burn blunts, boof lines, and consume other drugs in order to be elected President; then it's another requirement to support the jailing of people that get caught doing the same thing they used to do.

Fuck Clinton, Bush, and Obama.

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RE: Marijuana Legalization Question Gets 1st Place in W... - 1/29/2012 10:36:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		whats completely WRONG about all this is what the fuck gives the gubafia the authority to regulate any drug?

There is no reason what so ever that anyone should be required to get permission to get a drug of THEIR choosing regardless of what that drug may be or its effects.

It comes down to a few PTB asswipes found a great profit in it and want to monopolize the market and or license it so their pals make all the money.

see the yUK opium wars where the yUK forced china to by opium.

pretty much paints the picture why the US is under oppressive rule today.


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RE: Marijuana Legalization Question Gets 1st Place in W... - 1/29/2012 11:01:15 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yes, the whole smear campaign against cannabis was started by William Randolph Hearst (bastard).

Hearst owned a massive newspaper chain and industrial hemp posed a threat to his empire. He also lost a huge amount of timber land when Poncho Villa's troops reclaimed their land in the Mexican Revolution. Hearst couldn't stand this, and launched a war against industrial hemp. He knew that he couldn't convince Americans to outlaw hemp, since it's a frickin' miracle plant and was used all over America at the time; so he called the plant "marijuana" in order to associate it with Mexicans. He wrote stories of marijuana causing violence and associated it with blacks and Mexicans and used his newspaper for smear campaigns; he was basically responsible for starting "yellow journalism." Somehow, Hearst managed to convince the public that marijuana was evil and when it was outlawed, industrial hemp was lumped in with it.

Others have their hands dirty too... Mellon and DuPont to name a couple.

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RE: Marijuana Legalization Question Gets 1st Place in W... - 1/29/2012 11:09:33 AM   
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It's just so hypocritical. It's a damn near requirement to burn blunts, boof lines, and consume other drugs in order to be elected President;


Well obviously we have a young Massachusetts resident who got pulled over and issued a small civil fine (WHICH I MADE POSSIBLE... YOU'RE WELCOME).
But I'm tired of these bogus allegations against past and my Mormon Cult serves me, SOON TO BE 'past presidents'.
Before you know it, he'll be accusing me of touching women's pussies out in public.






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RE: Marijuana Legalization Question Gets 1st Place in W... - 1/29/2012 11:22:53 AM   
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It's just so hypocritical. It's a damn near requirement to burn blunts, boof lines, and consume other drugs in order to be elected President; then it's another requirement to support the jailing of people that get caught doing the same thing they used to do.

Fuck Clinton, Bush, and Obama.

Translation........

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RE: Marijuana Legalization Question Gets 1st Place in W... - 1/29/2012 11:37:09 AM   
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Yes, the whole smear campaign against cannabis was started by William Randolph Hearst (bastard).

Hearst owned a massive newspaper chain and industrial hemp posed a threat to his empire. He also lost a huge amount of timber land when Poncho Villa's troops reclaimed their land in the Mexican Revolution. Hearst couldn't stand this, and launched a war against industrial hemp. He knew that he couldn't convince Americans to outlaw hemp, since it's a frickin' miracle plant and was used all over America at the time; so he called the plant "marijuana" in order to associate it with Mexicans. He wrote stories of marijuana causing violence and associated it with blacks and Mexicans and used his newspaper for smear campaigns; he was basically responsible for starting "yellow journalism." Somehow, Hearst managed to convince the public that marijuana was evil and when it was outlawed, industrial hemp was lumped in with it.

Others have their hands dirty too... Mellon and DuPont to name a couple.



well they make it illegal for everyone else so they can sell it!

Its no different today, the whole damn system is appropriately and rightfully a "gubafia".    Always has been and always will be and its all about the money.  If it were not we would all be recieving jiggawatts of TOTALLY RENEWABLE INFINITE ELECTRICTY from the tesla transmitter system.   of course that would upset the dirty wasteful oil empire and the jiggaBUCKS of taxes collected, and of course all the shit that springs from it to control pollution!  Watch the movie 5th element and "borg industries" part.  right to the tee!  LOL  they make movies about it and we think its fictional LOL


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RE: Marijuana Legalization Question Gets 1st Place in W... - 1/29/2012 12:21:04 PM   
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RE: Marijuana Legalization Question Gets 1st Place in W... - 1/29/2012 12:41:22 PM   
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Look it up.

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You mean the April Fools joke that NORML pulled?

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RE: Marijuana Legalization Question Gets 1st Place in W... - 1/29/2012 12:42:52 PM   
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RE: Marijuana Legalization Question Gets 1st Place in W... - 1/29/2012 2:02:36 PM   
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WASHINGTON, DC -- A question advocating marijuana legalization from a retired LAPD deputy chief of police won twice as many votes as any other video question in the White House's "Your Interview with the President" competition on YouTube this weekend. President Obama is slated to answer some of the top-voted questions on Monday.

The marijuana question, submitted by Stephen Downing, a board member for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), is as follows: "Mr. President, my name is Stephen Downing, and I'm a retired deputy chief of police from the Los Angeles Police Department. From my 20 years of experience I have come to see our country’s drug policies as a failure and a complete waste of criminal justice resources. According to the Gallup Poll, the number of Americans who support legalizing and regulating marijuana now outnumbers those who support continuing prohibition. What do you say to this growing voter constituency that wants more changes to drug policy than you have delivered in your first term?"


I wonder how that hypocritical former pot-smoking weasel in the White House will react to this...



There is no doubt in my mind that he will respond to it in exactly the same way he has responded to it for the past three plus years. By locking up more marijuana smokers in three years in office than bush&co did in 8 years...fucking liar.

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RE: Marijuana Legalization Question Gets 1st Place in W... - 1/29/2012 2:17:30 PM   
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locking up more marijuana smokers in three years in office than bush&co did in 8 years.


Really? I didn't know this. Wow.

Change you can believe in...

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RE: Marijuana Legalization Question Gets 1st Place in W... - 1/29/2012 2:25:21 PM   
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RE: Marijuana Legalization Question Gets 1st Place in W... - 1/29/2012 2:41:12 PM   
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A source for that information would be nice.


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RE: Marijuana Legalization Question Gets 1st Place in W... - 1/29/2012 2:42:53 PM   
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A source for that information would be nice.



I read it on the norml website about a year ago.
It will most likely be in their archive.

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RE: Marijuana Legalization Question Gets 1st Place in W... - 1/29/2012 2:43:31 PM   
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A source for that information would be nice.


I don't think it's true.


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RE: Marijuana Legalization Question Gets 1st Place in W... - 1/29/2012 2:50:58 PM   
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RE: Marijuana Legalization Question Gets 1st Place in W... - 1/29/2012 3:13:50 PM   
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WASHINGTON, DC -- A question advocating marijuana legalization from a retired LAPD deputy chief of police won twice as many votes as any other video question in the White House's "Your Interview with the President" competition on YouTube this weekend. President Obama is slated to answer some of the top-voted questions on Monday.

The marijuana question, submitted by Stephen Downing, a board member for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), is as follows: "Mr. President, my name is Stephen Downing, and I'm a retired deputy chief of police from the Los Angeles Police Department. From my 20 years of experience I have come to see our country’s drug policies as a failure and a complete waste of criminal justice resources. According to the Gallup Poll, the number of Americans who support legalizing and regulating marijuana now outnumbers those who support continuing prohibition. What do you say to this growing voter constituency that wants more changes to drug policy than you have delivered in your first term?"


I wonder how that hypocritical former pot-smoking weasel in the White House will react to this...

Well I'm sure that his response to the question will be a)more on point than yours b) more intelligent than yours c) much deeper than yours.
Other than that I will have to wait to find out

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RE: Marijuana Legalization Question Gets 1st Place in W... - 1/29/2012 3:17:20 PM   
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I don't think it's true.


Damn straight.... Last year at the memorial for Owsley, Jack Herer's nephew sat near us. By way of expressing my condolences over his uncle's passing, and somewhere in that conversation I remember hearing there was now bad blood between the Herers and NORML over things they were doing to grossly bump up the stats and  I believe on thing he said was they were now counting ANY form of detention, however brief as arrests.
Before they went by the number of those charged with a felony. I think they told him they needed ,ore relevance than ever these days or something like that. I suspect your chart is based on that philosophy.
   I know there's A LOT LESS concern about marijuana here in massachusetts. You really have to piss them off to even get the ticket most of the time. And my friends, some of whom are still major stoners, say more often than not, they're just told to get it out of their site. Course driving a car high gets more attention than it may have in the past cause they can prove it in some cases.


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