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how come he laughs at the end when saying potential terrorism?

Because worrying about people smoking pot is laughable when it comes to our REAL problems i.e. terrorism

hey hey hey smoke weed everyday!!

Talks slowly, clears his throat, seems to blank out mid-sentence, breaks into a goofy smile at odd moments, I bet he just had some Mary Jane!

I like how he smiles when he says it’s not “high” on his list :)

Ha, now I know: Obama “Change” is Chump Change. It sure doesn’t sound like he’s got any plans for change in drug policy or other personal freedom issues.

“Fairly difficult tor regulate”… “safeguards”… “same controls as other drugs”, “changes in federal law”… won’t be high on his list because of healthcare and terrorism… Yep, he’s a politician all right.

Michael, have you forgotten Ron Paul? Compared to Ron Paul’s stance on marijuana, this is your average everyday moronic political double speak. As far as other presidents, you’d have to go back to Jimmy Carter to find such a “rational” stance on marijuana. There was discussion of decriminalization in Carter’s administration. The ONLY thing Obama said that made sense is that he wouldn’t spend federal resources against state medical marijuana laws. We’ll see if he holds true to that…

We’re talking about an herb, like tea. It’s safer than tea. The FDA’s own judge called it “the safest therapeutic substance known to man.” Meanwhile Obama’s talking about regulating it and prescribing it appropriately. Well what do I expect? He takes his marching orders from the bankers and big pharma. Besides, the government gets a bigger cut when it’s illegal. Only a slighter shade of pale better than McCain in only some ways.

When politicians say stupid things like Obama said in this video, we’ve got to call them out on it. Honestly, who in their right mind thinks that the safest herb in the world that grows everywhere all over the world should be (or even can be) “regulated” and “prescribed”. THAT’S STOOOOPID! (Unless of course one’s saying that because one profits from it’s illegality, which would make one an immoral corrupt liar.)

Thanks for the video.

Let’s take our country back,
Rob

perhaps we should consider the possibilities of hemp as well as marijuana here.
with people in power who seem to be willing to reason and appreciate the intelligence of people that know about plants and the natural world, we have the opportunity to create new markets with these plants. at the moment the united states is the only major industrialized nation doing no research on the possibilities of growing hemp for paper, clothing, food, oil and plastics, building materials, the list goes on…
as a plant that has the potential to leave the soil in better shape than when it arrived and relies far less on annual inputs to provide a high yield of diverse, valuable products, hemp should gain once again its place on our farms and in our awareness as a people. we must work together to expose the idiocracy of the chemical-mechanized agriculture that destroys the life in the soil and holds farmers as slaves, buying the same poisoned seed and soil year after year.

Im glad this is our president now. Marijuana was legal till the 30’s and its been around for centuries. Our ancestors used it for medical purposes. Its the idiots that take a stoner approach and just want it for recreational purposes… which im not against… but what Obama explained was said very well. We spend way too much keeping harmless criminals in jail because of this failed and horrendous “War on Drugs”. Read the book Reefer Madness, open your mind.

I think he realizes that marijuana is not a threatening and it’s the terrorism and the real drugs like cocaine or heroin. Compared with marijuana these drugs can easily send you in a drug rehab center and even kill you.

marijuana should be legal and taxed like tobacco or alcohol. just think of the jobs it would create and the revenue that taxes on marijuana surely help our country economy

The thing is all drugs have their uses and downfalls, but who do you leave responsibility of control; criminals who kill for favours or reponsible pharmacists with lincense and restriction? I am talking everything, except the really harsh, chemically mixed drugs which is in truth, the real problem with drugs - greed from the dealer filling them with rat poison etc, to increase his stock, all the way down to the addict.

People ask if the smoke is addictive; well of course it is, but the question is the extent of harm. That means folks, the true harmer in smoking a joint is the tobacco and that still has not been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt!

Biting your nails is based on nervous disposition and is classed as habitual, as we have all seen those people that bite them to the point of soreness so is there more chance of harm coming from infection; my friend’s fingers swelled to almost twice their size from such an infection so where is this extensive harm and is obesity the next target like here? We are talking governments; they don’t make decisions based on single goals and they will push further. If we stopped everything that did us harm, you would have to shut down half the working world from stress alone.

I know it’s early morning for you guys, but when you get the opportunity to read this can someone point me in the right direction or perhaps relay the information on the American governments stance on tobacco as it is banned in public places in England, they are discussing fining people for passive smoking to their pets (I wonder if that counts for goldfish) and it has destroyed the public house (bar) trade. Like I said, they never do things in singular steps.

Thanks Mr Powell; it’s fair enough if it causes harm to others, but i’m glad to hear there’s at least sense coming from your country on these pages, and in other contributors (which of course means America in general). I’m glad to hear it’s being kept at state level. It keeps the choice more individual. I was merely thinking that it’s another angle to control if you legalise a substance then lambast the other ingredients required to make it and therefore end up with public bans on it anyway. Again I say thanks for your help. Just keep it in mind, if Obama (I’ve seen two spellings of his name in the news; I hope this the correct one) fails the people may want to hear someone else voice and Dr Paul certainly puts the sense that I see in front of me.

Speaking of Barack Obama:

Barack Obama is a racial-minority individual, and in his heart and mind he inevitably does not endorse hate crimes committed by George W. Bush.

George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).

George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.

And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.

Many people know what Bush did.

And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.

Bush was absolute evil.

Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.

Bush is a psychological prisoner.

Bush has a lot to worry about.

Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.

In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.

Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
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I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.

The fact that marijuana prohibition has these budgetary impacts does not by itself mean prohibition is bad policy. Existing evidence, however, suggests prohibition has minimal benefits and may itself cause substantial harm.

Obama is looking to the future and what needs to be change, I’m so glad to have him as president. Legal marijuana has to become a reality in the next 3 years, for too long money and resources have been wasted by the government fighting against it for no justifiable reasons.