http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/obama-and-his-pot-smoking-choom-gang/
May 25, 2012 12:54pm
Obama and His Pot-Smoking ‘Choom Gang’
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Unlike Bill Clinton, Barack Obama never tried to say he didn’t inhale.
In his 1995 memoir “Dreams of My Father,” Obama writes about smoking pot almost like Dr. Seuss wrote about eating green eggs and ham. As a high school kid, Obama wrote, he would smoke “in a white classmate’s sparkling new van,” he would smoke “in the dorm room of some brother” and he would smoke “on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids.”
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Now that we have a pot head as Prez …
… as a little L libertarian, I’ve always thought that our “drug policy”, ”(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”, was a best “misguided”, at worst “corrupt”. We have too many examples, anecdotal evidence, of pot not being as “bad” as booze, of high achievers who “inhaled” …
Don’t you think we could have a national dialogue about “drugs”, “drug policy”, and factual evidence?
We have mj prohibition because of hemp’s competition with the politically connected paper industry.
We have mj prohibition because of Hollywood’s “reefer madness” propaganda.
We have mj prohibition because of its association with the black community.
We have arguably ¼ of the federal prison population due to mj.
We have sick people, who need it and have no alternative for them. Not an effective alternative. Never mind a cheap alternative.
Ignore that not everyone who has a medical mj RX needs it. There are folks who legitimately need it (i.e., AIDS, chemotherapy patients, glaucoma).
Since the Chinese dynasty, there has been a residual addiction rate. Regardless if addicts were sentenced to death in China. Dealers were imprisoned for long stretches in Southeast Asia. No “public policy” makes a dent in the problem.
If the Gooferment can’t keep “drugs” out of its prisons, then perhaps we need a better strategy?
Walmart and Walgreens seem to be able to restrict access to stuff from minors.
So, why can’t we shift from the “punishment” meme that is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient to a “treatment” meme.
How much worse could we do?
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Posted by reinkefj 
POLITICAL: The battle between the administration and the judiciary
Monday, April 9, 2012http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504564_162-57408827-504564/appeals-court-fires-back-at-obamas-comments-on-health-care-case/
Crossroads
April 3, 2012 3:42 PM
Appeals court fires back at Obama’s comments on health care case
By Jan Crawford
Topics Supreme Court
Updated 6:55 p.m. ET
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(CBS News) In the escalating battle between the administration and the judiciary, a federal appeals court apparently is calling the president’s bluff — ordering the Justice Department to answer by Thursday whether the Obama Administration believes that the courts have the right to strike down a federal law, according to a lawyer who was in the courtroom.
The order, by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, appears to be in direct response to the president’s comments yesterday about the Supreme Court’s review of the health care law. Mr. Obama all but threw down the gauntlet with the justices, saying he was “confident” the Court would not “take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.”
Overturning a law of course would not be unprecedented — since the Supreme Court since 1803 has asserted the power to strike down laws it interprets as unconstitutional. The three-judge appellate court appears to be asking the administration to admit that basic premise — despite the president’s remarks that implied the contrary. The panel ordered the Justice Department to submit a three-page, single-spaced letter by noon Thursday addressing whether the Executive Branch believes courts have such power, the lawyer said.
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I think this is an epic struggle for the American Experiment.
I’m not sure that this is goign to end well.
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