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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?"

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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;

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ORIGINAL: provfivetine

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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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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~FR

Executive Order #69420

Look it up.

~smirks

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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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locking up more marijuana smokers in three years in office than bush&co did in 8 years.

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A source for that information would be nice.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

A source for that information would be nice.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl
A source for that information would be nice.

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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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I don't think it's true.