Obama Thrusts His Foot Down His Throat
by attempting to belittle cause of Cannabis Legalization; ignoring its relevance to human rights, the environment, energy security, and health care reported at Drug War Rant http://www.drugwarrant.com/2015/03/why-marijuana-isnt-at-the-bottom-of-the-list/ Why marijuana isn’t at the bottom of the list President Obama : “Let’s put it in perspective,” Obama said in response. “Young people, I understand this is important to you, but you should be thinking about climate change, the economy, jobs, war and peace, maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana.” That, of course, completely misses the point regarding what “thinking about marijuana” actually is about. Tom Angell: “But he should think again about how important this issue is. On average, there’s a marijuana possession arrest in the U.S. about every minute. Billions of dollars are wasted on enforcing prohibition laws that don’t stop anyone from using marijuana but do ruin people’s lives with damaging criminal ...