Major Blow to 'War on Drugs': Obama Tells Fed Prosecutors, Don't Waste Your Time with Medical Marijuana Arrests

Industrial hemp has been banned along with 'marijuana' for seventy-two years. It is madness to continue the prohibition of hemp for food and fuel now that 'marijuana' is finally being respected as a safe and effective herbal therapeutic of choice for many people.

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This sounds like a slick attempt at a PR campaign for the white house. "oh, don't waste your time with marijuana if you don't feel like it" That's what this sounds like to me. It wasn't actually an injunction to stop the arrests or a direct order telling L.E.O. that they must -not- arrest medical marijuana users. More it was a mild suggestion. This does not seem very genuine to me. More directly the administration was sure to point out that they will continue marijuana related arrests, but for other reasons. tsk tsk white house. Very flimsy.

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There is nothing new about this disingenuous policy. It is what Obama has been saying out of one side of his mouth since taking office. Out the other side of his mouth is the caveat of "strict compliance", federal support of local authorities and the DEA's dubious interpretation of "science".

The feds investigate for pretexts and turn the pretexts based cases over to zealous local prosecutors for action.

I wrote more about this here:

Drug Warrior Obama's Disingenuous "New" Medical Pot Rules

DEMAND REAL CHANGE!!!

Write to you representatives in congress and to Barack Obama demanding that they support:

H.R.2835 "To provide for the medical use of marijuana in accordance with the laws of the various States."

Going further. If you are fed up with the authoritarianism of the war on drugs Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia authored S-714 to create a national criminal justice commission to look into all aspects of the use of America's criminal justice system. Sen. Webb has even indicated that marijuana legalization is "On the table"

Thus far 35 senators have signed on to Sen. Webb's S-714 as co-sponsors. S-714 tally sheet of senators thus far co-sponsoring the bill. The bill needs all the support it can get because drug war supporters have offered a counter bill in the House of Representative.

H.R. 2943 "To eliminate most Federal penalties for possession of marijuana for personal use..."

These bills will eliminate the ongoing human rights atrocity known as the war on drugs. Write or call your members in congress and to President Obama DEMANDING that they support this legislative agenda.

IF THEY DON'T HEAR IT FROM US THEY WON'T HEAR IT!

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The head of the D.E.A. has the power to reschedule marijuana as a class 2 drug without congressional input. Obama has the power to make medical marijuana legal nationally but he doesn't do that. I would like to see marijuana completely legalized so forgive me for not jumping up and down with joy because of a promise not to prosecute medical marijuana users in states where it is legal.

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Dennis Peron said that marijuana helped his friend. Then the cops came in one night while his friend was dying and stole four ounces of his pot. After he died I knew I had to make MJ available to everyone who needed it.

Dennis Peron, MJ activist went on to coauthor California's Prop 215 The Compassionate Use Act of 1996.

Obama has taken ONE SMALL STEP. Dennis Peron changed the political debate 13 years ago but the battle is not over. When it comes to the God-given healing Cannabis plant, the Lawmakers must be made to agree with Peron re MJ.

"ALL USE IS MEDICINAL"

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Obama's memo will likely be thrown in the trash!

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Drug war proponents support selling drugs to children.

Drug war proponents support criminal anarchy and violence on American streets.

Drug war proponents support cartels and drug black market funded terrorism.

Drug war proponents are lawless anarchists.

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As much as NORML's nearly forty years of fruitless efforts have been a major blow to the war on drugs.

Repeal of the drug war laws is the only major blow that will effect the war on drugs. This memo is a major blow to nothing.

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and let some new blood actually form an activist organization out of NORML that is capable of really opposing the war on drugs.

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Your cheque sir, is in the mail. Khristian Oliver, 32, is set to be killed on 5 November after jurors used Biblical passages supporting the death penalty to help them decide whether he should live or die.
Amnesty International is calling on the Texas authorities to commute Khristian Oliver's death sentence. The organization considers that the jurors' use of the Bible during their sentencing deliberations raises serious questions about their impartiality.
A U.S. federal appeals court acknowledged last year that the jurors' use of the Bible amounted to an "external influence" prohibited under the U.S. Constitution, but nonetheless upheld the death sentence.
Apparently, this "external influence" included the following passages from the Old Testament, some of which were read aloud in the jury room:
"The murderer shall surely be put to death"
"And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, the murderer shall surely be put to death."
"The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer."
(That last one, I assume, was determined to be logistically unfeasible.)
According to Chris McGreal in the Guardian, "another juror, Michael Brenneisen, told a journalist in 2002 that he asked himself 'Is this the way the Lord would decide the case?' But Brenneisen also said that in discussing the Bible the jury 'went both directions in our use of the scripture -- forgiveness and judgement.'"
so divided we are in the crime that we are teaching the students law.
The days of long sermons and traditional services may not be over, but they have been augmented by something powerful and new: religious social media.
As religions look to connect with younger followers, and to spread their messages to non-believers, they have quietly turned to Facebook, Twitter, and even viral video. And they have been tremendously successful in some respects. Businesses have known the benefits of viral marketing and dynamic social media for some time. Now religions are catching up.
In fact, Pope Benedict XVI just recently urged priests in a Vatican City press release to fully use new "communications media" to spread the good word far and wide.
Like the huge bonuses that banks give, we need the Mr Patel like to loosen the belts of the insurances but that takes guts and few day in the cooler, I mean the jail but that too need the guts.
A man who staged car crashes for money, helping fraudsters claim 1.6 million pounds from insurance firms, was jailed Wednesday for four and a half years. Mohammed Patel, 24, charged people 500 pounds a time to set up crashes enabling them to claim an average of 17,000 pounds each, a court heard. Look out for the Muslim name with the Hindu tail
He staged at least 93 accidents with clients' cars by slamming on his brakes so drivers behind him would plough into his vehicle, the court heard. He would then take details enabling his clients to claim on their insurance.
"The wickedness of these staged accidents is that you gave no thought to the victim," judge Bernard Lever told the court in Manchester.
I thank you
Firozali A. Mulla

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will simply legalize all drugs. I didn't say not regulate. There will be no money and no demand for guns and ammo along the border, if we stop sending the money to buy them. We are the ones at fault.

We have a whole coterie of people in the United States making a lot of money out of these illegalities. It is not just the drug dealers or the wholesalers or the smugglers. It has to include the parts of law enforcement that share in the big money. They are bought. They are crooked. Once they give up to be a little crooked they find it really easy to go a lot crooked. I once knew a county sheriff's deputy that had laundered enough money to have a paid for 250,000 dollar house before he was 40.

Our only problem is a shortage of honest people. The story of Diogenes may have been apocryphal but it has been remembered. I really, really do get annoyed with my fellow man.

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that even the most pro-pot, progressive type would be happy with Obama's directive.

To say what the AG did doesn't matter much, won't change much says far more about the people who say that and their complete detachment and hopelessly cynical world view than it does about Obama's efforts.

THIS IS A HUGE CHANGE.

The Federal Govt. has NEVER EVER climbed down in their anti-marijuana campaigns despite decades of studies showing their 100% wrong.

Their answer was always mindless rote repetition of the claims studies disproved over and over.

When something has been demonized and illegal for so long, and for such utterly idiotic reasons just making it legal could potentially cause a lot of needless social chaos. All of which can easily be avoided by giving society a few years to digest the changes and realize it's a good thing.

Move before then and this issue could easily be turned into a rather effective tool of the insane Repugnican hate machine in regaining some of the ground they rightfully lost in 2008.

Do I care about all Democrats, nope, but I do care a lot about the progressive champions like Pelosi and her ilk. (though I imagine if you think the AGs decision was more of the same, you probably lump Pelosi with Limbaugh)

After a couple of years or so, society will ready, willing and able to accept 100% legal marijuana.

Once that time passes, you can be certain that's where Obama will rapidly move.

Patience is a virtue especially when complete victory is within site, and impatience could jeopardize far more than the goal you personally seek.

AND Cynicism so deep and overwhelming that it blinds someone to the fact that things are going their way finally is the emotional Benedict Arnold that has contributed mightily to the failure of causes just and right throughout history.

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Please excuse my English. I have no idea why marijuana is still illegal. Now is the time for legal weed. Nowadays, by smoking with a vaporizer, smoking weed is almost perfectly healthy. Vaporizers take away all the harmful effects of marijuana. The best herbal vaporizers are now even cheap to buy and great to use. This administration claims to want change yet is not doing anything to reap from the tax potential of legal weed. I think legal weed is inevitable and necessary. The government can't continue trying to police something it can't control. Think about how safer our neighborhoods would be near South Texas and California where drug trafficing is common place.

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