Reason magazine and StopTheDrugWar.org detail the sad story of Barack Obama's cowardice on the issue of marijuana decriminalization.
The Washington Times broke the story, reporting that in his 2004 Senate campaign Obama supported eliminating criminal penalties for cannabis use or possession. When the Times brought this up, the Obama campaign first stood by those remarks - then, within 24 hours, changed its story and declared that Obama does not support eliminating criminal penalties for cannabis.
If you thought Barack Obama was a man of courage, think again.
Tom Swiss
Wed, 02/06/2008 - 00:36
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commenting to the Obama campain
If you'd like to let the Obama campaign know how you feel about this, contact them at
http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/mypolicy
My message:
Tom Swiss - proprietor, unreasonable.org
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 01/27/2009 - 10:10
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Goes to show that our
Goes to show that our "Leaders" are just retarded puppets with no real ethics! That don´t give a fuck about the very people trhat elected them in the first place! Destroy politicians and scrap their jobs! We can all vote anyways lets allow the people to vote all matters online now we dont need corrupt back stabbing false double standard fakies lying to our face every day. Accountability is only demanded from the weak,poor,and defenseless.
Besides it´s about time the youth have their say in what goes on it is our world too you know, why is it there are only old farts in congress?
I say scrap politicians let the people have the power that is rightly theirs.
Marlboro would hate the competition! People would scrap cigarettes for marijuana! i would. Money is power, politicians only care about themselves,welcome to the big lie!
graham28
Thu, 05/15/2008 - 08:56
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I do think Obama is a man of
I do think Obama is a man of courage, I never agreed with eliminating criminal penalties for cannabis in the first place. I don't have a good reason to support that, I hate drugs and they should stay illegal. I don't want to see all these drug dealers today to become respectable business men tomorrow, they have to pay for what they did and we need a legal basis for that. And that's for all the drug victims, there are too many people whose lives have been destroyed by drugs. We have thousands of kids struggling with drugs on the streets, we should better consider putting them in drug treatment, they represent out future.
Tom Swiss
Thu, 05/15/2008 - 17:19
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Obama should have been locked up?
So you think Obama, and everyone else, would be better off if he'd been locked in a cage for several years?
I'm sorry that you have such an emotional reaction to some chemicals - you "hate drugs" - that you wish to use violence against those who use them.
Prohibition is a failure on a practical level, as proven by those "thousands of kids struggling with drugs on the streets", and it's a failure from an ethical standpoint, where you propose to initiate the use of violence against people who haven't done you or anyone else any harm. Drug use is a private choice.
Tom Swiss - proprietor, unreasonable.org
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 11/18/2008 - 01:53
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wow your dumb
wow your dumb
Bekita Sue (not verified)
Wed, 04/29/2009 - 14:56
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Wow you're dumb?
"Wow you're dumb"? What a comeback. Such scientific methods! What a logic! Fantastic use of brain matter! Wow you're dumb"?
Well guess what!! YOU'RE A POOPY PANTS!! So there, nyahh!!! HA!!!
Anonymous (not verified)
Wed, 11/04/2009 - 13:58
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fagot
fagot
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 12/07/2008 - 12:50
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Cannabis Intolerance
So let me get this straight... because YOU don't like it, you think it's OKAY for hundreds of thousands of INNOCENT people to be forced into a cage at gunpoint? In MY opinion, we should execute anyone who believes any cannabis user or grower should be in a cage. You better hope you never meet me, and if you do you better hope you don't say what you just said.
It comes down to this:
If you think i should be in a cage for enjoying a completely natural, minimally "harmful" plant, i think you should die... slowly, and painfully. Because that's what life in prison is. Slow, Painful death. If you think cannabis users deserve that, then i think you deserve it too.
You, sir, make me sick.
Now that that's out of the way:
Why do you hate drugs?
Why do you think growing a plant and then smoking it, deserves a prison sentence, along with hefty fines and asset seizure?
Why do you believe INNOCENT cannabis users should be violently oppressed, and have their entire lives stolen?
You DO realize it was the "LAW" (a technically INVALID law, enacted through fraud) that ruined most of these lives, right?
Your opinion is preposterous, absurd, and hateful.
In case you decide to respond, remember, you hated ME (and those like me) before you ever read anything i've just typed.
I didn't hate you until i read your comment. Your blind hate started this, take responsibility.
Anonymous (not verified)
Thu, 01/29/2009 - 07:33
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graham bro
youre really dumb like the man said.. read some nonbiased SCIENCE journals for once in your quick to jump on the bandwagon life, seriously, really read some scientific journals cannibinoids destroy cancer and remove the poisons that theyre population controlling with, use a little sense.. try to learn things and think about motivations for people in power to do things, maybe youre on the pompaus side and would rather hide the truth from the public and keep it to yourself in private, anyways thats a disgusting life, speak the truth speak your mind spread the truth or we'll have ignorant assholes like this rubbing their stupid uninformed opinions on everyone, go smoke your cigarette and cook your food off tin foil, uncle same loves you, ass
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 14:14
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ignorance is bliss
Name one person whos life ended becouse they smoked cannabis! There has never been a death caused by cannabis but how many people are killed daily by beer and booze. Cannabis helps the sick and calms the mind the worst thing that could happen is you get a stomach ache from eating to much and you fall asleep cannabis is not a drug it helps people more than anything and just like beer you must use moderation. No one goes to rehab for a pot addiction dumbass. I do think that prescription drugs, crack , cocaine, heroine, and all the other life ruining substances MUST remain illegal, these drugs do not help anyone or anything and that our goverment needs to turn thier attention on these drugs more than ever. I have smoked weed since I was thirteen.At a young age I was put on rittalin and adderal for ADHD and I hated the feeling of being a zombie, these drugs made me feel like crap. So I started smoking pot and it helped me consintrate on school and my future without the side affects of feeling like a lifless emotionless dumbass. I hate drugs but I love plants, I'm not saying tha pot is the answer to everything but it does help ease stress without being a reckless dumbass robing and stealing to get a fix. I don't think the public should be allowed to grow if cannabis is ever legalized it should be taxed and regulated with age laws and should not be smoked on public streets much like Amsterdam where weed is only illegal on the streets but in a residence or cannabis cafe.Do some research before you ignorantly speak out about somthing you Know nothing about then I will hear your point of veiw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 06/09/2008 - 20:26
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Cannabis, obama
Obama is a smart man with respect to decriminalizing and possible legalization of cannabis. I guess he's actually researched and listened to the cannabis patients instead of taking our fake government for its words.
Alcohol Rehabi… (not verified)
Thu, 10/02/2008 - 16:37
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I had no clue that the one
I had no clue that the one who is happening to be our future president had been accused of consuming drugs. Indeed this is a terrible fact and all the American citizens should take this situation in consideration.
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 10/21/2008 - 17:18
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You have to read between the
You have to read between the lines and be practical. The way Democrats have lost the last two elections is because of the Rove tactic of social/cultural wedge issues. Do you really want Obama to lose the election, with everything he's got going for him, because the Republicans are playing marijuana quotes from him all over TV nonstop?
It's pretty obvious that Obama is not big on criminalizing marijuana users. What is the practical result of this? He'll probably tell the federal authorities to stop wasting time prosecuting legal state users, like they do with medical marijuana in California.
In other words, don't lower his chance of getting elected and having federal authorities ease off legal users. This is not an issue that wins elections, so leave it off for now.
Anonymous (not verified)
Wed, 11/05/2008 - 01:18
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Weed actually makes for
Weed actually makes for great honest currency and tender, when legal. Cash and cocaine on the other hand, are easily diluted! This is the real problem and the Federal Reserve could not allow this to happen in the early quarter of the century when the institution was trying to establish itself ensuring its commodity to be the most in demand required for every trade transaction. Times are different now though, people have so much confidence in the American dollar (Although I personally have greater confidence in toilet paper and not just because its softer. The Dollar is good for scraping off lumps that just wont gravitate but shit just does not stick to it and least not forget how it blocks the sewer pipe). We must take a fresh look at Marijuana and shake off the taboo of the past. The laws against cannabis are plainly anti-social and the risk for users is not the cannabis itself but the harmful aldulterants that may be inhaled from a substance with no regulation and more demand than supply. Anyway, law is based around the principles of what is not socially acceptable. Whats the problem then!
Anonymous (not verified)
Sun, 12/07/2008 - 13:12
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Overtrust
With ALLLLLLLLL the crap pulled by our gov't for so long, do you *really* trust the gov't to make a safe, pure, unadulterated cannabis available, even if they do decide to regulate it?
HELLL No.
We're eating GMO foods, breathing all kinds of horrible toxic air pollution, drinking all kinds of horrible water pollution, and don't forget the tuskeegee experiment, and the attempted mass sterilization, eugenics project.
Consider the possibility that we're being constantly lied to, and even perhaps intentionally harmed, via a long term, and often not-so-subtle campaign of control.
Do I want these people telling me i can only have the cannabis THEY say is ok? HELL No.
I'll grow my own, my own way, so i can guarantee myself a pure, natural, organic, unadulterated yield.
No on regulation, yes on FULL legalization.
The only cannabis criminalization laws i would concede to, would be "no selling or providing cannabis (or other "drugs") to minors. That's it. That's the ONLY one. Other than that, Cannabis should be totally legal. Ok maybe also a minor-traffic-violation for being caught USING IT WHILE DRIVING, but not just for possession.
I'm completely amazed more people are not becoming violent over this oppressive and unjust persecution. How many innocent people will we allow them to terrorize, before we "draw the line." ??
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 10/05/2009 - 01:05
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YEEEEEESSSSSSSS!
YEEEEEESSSSSSSS!
Whisno (not verified)
Wed, 11/05/2008 - 10:07
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Ethic politic doesn't exist
Maybe courage just doesn't make sense if it reduces Obama's influence. I mean that in the vicious process that leads to government, it's good to be franc only if it makes you elected. Every president had to do some electioneering and I'm fed up with the hypocrisy "The one who is cought is faulty" for things everyone does.
xCannabis (not verified)
Fri, 01/23/2009 - 03:30
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I hope that Obama comes to his senses!
Will President Barack Obama keep his promise to decriminalize?
YouTube video, asking Obama to keep his promises!
Anonymous (not verified)
Thu, 01/29/2009 - 07:35
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seriously george washington
seriously george washington would be weaping at all this hypocrisy i hope that obama honors or ancestors.
Anonymous (not verified)
Tue, 02/03/2009 - 19:50
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you are all crazy
Obama will do the right thing no matter what happens. I smoke weed everyday and think it should be legalized. But I live in an herb friendly state so that makes a difference. What about texas then all that dirt weed can enter the states. They wouldn't legalize it they would administer it for medical use and let some patients self administer. But to comopletely decriminalize it would be a mistake.
dana
Wed, 04/07/2010 - 07:44
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Even Obama doesn't know
Even Obama doesn't know what's his position on marijuana, I admit that I am confused myself. I used to have a clear opinion about marijuana's legal status but now I reconsidered everything and I don't know what to think anymore. Perhaps it would be better if we stopped putting people to jail for smoking a joint, not to mention about marijuana legalization, most of them smoke herbal legal buds anyway.
k2 incense (not verified)
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 15:37
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People are made to be
People are made to be criminals over a little weed and that is petty and just plain absurd! Our police are spread so thin and our jails are getting more and more crowded.