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Obama's Pot Problem... Conservatives
Submitted by DdC on 22. July 2012 - 19:48
Obama Oakland Visit Draws Protests
Demian Bulwa, San Francisco Chronicle, July 21, 2012
Oakland may be a proven bastion of support for President Obama, but his planned visit to the politically charged city Monday is expected to lead to the first major downtown protests in months. Medical marijuana advocates are staging what will likely be the biggest rally as they urge Obama to halt a Justice Department crackdown on dispensaries. Antiwar activists are coming, too, lending energy to the barrage of criticism that Obama has been taking from the activist left.
Truth In Trials Act, MMJ Protection Bill
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dwr: How one state’s vote for President could change the future political climate for marijuana.
At Salon: Obama's Pot Problem
After holding the party convention in Denver and handily carrying this traditionally Republican state in 2008, Obama could be jeopardizing his reelection bid with a dismissive and even hostile approach to marijuana reform, a top issue for tens of thousands of local residents, including many of the activists who powered his last campaign.
Even if President Obama wins the election, if he loses Colorado and it appears to be because of his position on marijuana, then the entire political world will sit up and take notice.
You can already see the faint beginnings of the mad scamper away from prohibition by politicians…
See also: If Chris Christie is soft on drugs… by Rich Lowry.
...If Chris Christie, arguably the toughest Republican in the country, is open to new approaches, there’s hope for everyone else.
❝Totalitarianism is when people believe
they can punish their way to perfection.❞
-- House Speaker Newt Gingrich, May 1998
President's Day Republican fundraiser
Legal for Some, Pot Crops Up in N.J.
NJ Guv Christ Christie, 48,
Hospitalized for Asthma/Obesity => Got Ganja?
❝A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.❞
-- H.L. Mencken, 1918
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The Conservative Argument for Legalization
Conservatives Have Larger 'Fear Centers' in Their Brains
Conservative Addiction Good, Liberal Addiction Bad!
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Fellow Conservatives: Our Position Is Hypocritical
❝Government exists to protect us from each other.
Where government has gone beyond its limits
is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.❞
-- Ronald Reagan,
The New York Times, April 13, 1980
Why Do Democrats Defend the Drug War?
First Obama DEAth raid in California
Obama Tilts Toward Iran Contra Gates
❝Republic . . .
it means people can live free,
talk free, go or come, buy or sell,
be drunk or sober, however they choose.❞
-- John Wayne
For those with alobama short term memory loss...
smoke better pot.
The Obama Admin's Anti-Marijuana Manifesto
☛ Multiple DEA Raids Target Marijuana in Hawaii
☛ Obama: Drug Legalization is
☛An Entirely Legitimate Topic for Debate"
☛ Hil and Gil on the Drug War
☛ Obombo's Sublingual Attack on Ganja
☛ One Drug Arrest Every 19 Seconds Oh Gilligan!
☛ President Obama takes a dump on California
More progressives lying to support Obama’s drug war dwr
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
❝Narcotics police are an enormous, corrupt international bureaucracy, and now fund a coterie of researchers who provide them with 'scientific support'. Fanatics who distort the legitimate research of others. The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help, and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.❞
-- William F. Buckley,
Commentary in The National Review, April 29, 1983, p. 495
Jimmy Kimmel Confronts Obama About Marijuana U2b
Obama: "$77 Billion A Year From Hemp Won't Help Economy!" U2b
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