Obama gives candid opinion on Pot Prohibition (says it doesn't work).

[TechBoyJK]

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/v...-tapper-obama-marijuana-legalization.cnn.html

 

[TechBoyJK]

I think he's starting to show his true feelings.

I'm glad he's side stepping what's written in policy and being honest about it.

 

[shortylickens]

Well, he's an expert on things that dont work.

 

[werepossum]

Well, he's an expert on things that dont work.

LOL +1

At least we now know Obama's secret crime fighting identity. He's Captain Obvious.

 

[Genx87]

Prohibition doesn work. You dont say?

 

[Matt1970]

I think he's starting to show his true feelings.

I'm glad he's side stepping what's written in policy and being honest about it.

So after all these years of being a President, US Senator and State Senator, he is finally starting to show his true feelings?

 

[Pray To Jesus]

Prohibition doesn work. You dont say?

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

 

[Newell Steamer]

POTUS, A-OK w/DOPUS.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Prohibition doesn work. You dont say?

Prohibition works perfectly. The trick is to prohibit unpopular items. Too many people want weed or booze.

 

[marincounty]

And who pushed this pot prohibition and the war on drugs? Righties.
And who is decriminalizing? Lefties.

 

[TechBoyJK]

POTUS, A-OK w/DOPUS.

Yep, in spite of all the mass incarcerations, ruined families, black market violence...that's exactly what it boils down to.

 

[rudeguy]

ok...

So an admitted drug abuser says a drug he really liked isn't so bad. How is this news?

 

[K1052]

ok...

So an admitted drug abuser says a drug he really liked isn't so bad. How is this news?

It's a departure from precedent and arguably one of the first steps to admitting that the entire drug war has been a failure more harmful than the drugs themselves.

 

[werepossum]

Prohibition works perfectly. The trick is to prohibit unpopular items. Too many people want weed or booze.

Whoopie Goldberg made an excellent point more or less on this subject. She is a connoisseur of fine Cuban cigars. Her statement was roughly:

"You cannot buy Cuban cigars in this country. They are illegal and you simply can't find them. Crack is illegal, too. You can buy crack across the street from the White House."

When government really wants to prohibit something, it can do so fairly effectively, as long as not that many people want it and are willing to break the law to get it. As demand increases, that prohibition becomes exponentially more difficult.

 

[rudeguy]

It's a departure from precedent and arguably one of the first steps to admitting that the entire drug war has been a failure more harmful than the drugs themselves.

Because a drug abuser said so?

No studies? No scientific data?

Because Herr Obama says so?


OK

 

[rudeguy]

Whoopie Goldberg made an excellent point more or less on this subject. She is a connoisseur of fine Cuban cigars. Her statement was roughly:

"You cannot buy Cuban cigars in this country. They are illegal and you simply can't find them. Crack is illegal, too. You can buy crack across the street from the White House."

When government really wants to prohibit something, it can do so fairly effectively, as long as not that many people want it and are willing to break the law to get it. As demand increases, that prohibition becomes exponentially more difficult.

?

I'll go get you cases of Cubans. How many do you want?

 

[werepossum]

?

I'll go get you cases of Cubans. How many do you want?

None, I'm a non-smoker. You could possibly set up Whoopie though. Although that was a decade or two ago, maybe it's no longer the case?

 

[rudeguy]

None, I'm a non-smoker. You could possibly set up Whoopie though. Although that was a decade or two ago, maybe it's no longer the case?

Iunno

We used to buy them in Canada all the time. Maybe the hat banned them too?


Where are our resident eskimos? We need some expert opinions!

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Because a drug abuser said so?

No studies? No scientific data?

Because Herr Obama says so?


OK

What on Earth is going on in this post? Are you implying that Obama is currently on drugs? There's a significant difference between "user" and "abuser," and I fail to see how Obama has crossed that line. And then you venture into the truly deranged and go for the Nazi comparison. Come on man, you generally seem intelligent, don't let political differences shut off the oxygen supply to your brain.

I do think it's interesting that the last three presidents we've had have all copped to using illegal drugs at some point in their younger days. If you can experiment with pot or cocaine and still become President of the United States, how bad can they really be?

 

[hal2kilo]

Iunno

We used to buy them in Canada all the time. Maybe the hat banned them too?


Where are our resident eskimos? We need some expert opinions!

They have a sane foreign policy with Cuba. No ban there.

 

[jhbball]

Because a drug abuser said so?

No studies? No scientific data?

Because Herr Obama says so?


OK

you realize there's studies and scientific data right? lol

 

[Oldgamer]

What on Earth is going on in this post? Are you implying that Obama is currently on drugs? There's a significant difference between "user" and "abuser," and I fail to see how Obama has crossed that line. And then you venture into the truly deranged and go for the Nazi comparison. Come on man, you generally seem intelligent, don't let political differences shut off the oxygen supply to your brain.

I do think it's interesting that the last three presidents we've had have all copped to using illegal drugs at some point in their younger days. If you can experiment with pot or cocaine and still become President of the United States, how bad can they really be?

Shoot, half the congress members have used or are currently using, they just haven't gotten caught. Well except a couple recently...lol

Which I always find so hypocritical when these congress members want to drug test the unemployed or people on welfare for drugs but they don't want to be tested themselves.

 

[jhbball]

What on Earth is going on in this post? Are you implying that Obama is currently on drugs? There's a significant difference between "user" and "abuser," and I fail to see how Obama has crossed that line. And then you venture into the truly deranged and go for the Nazi comparison. Come on man, you generally seem intelligent, don't let political differences shut off the oxygen supply to your brain.

I do think it's interesting that the last three presidents we've had have all copped to using illegal drugs at some point in their younger days. If you can experiment with pot or cocaine and still become President of the United States, how bad can they really be?

It's probably something he picked up on Fox News. He's not very bright. Sensible people see this as a step forward in the failed war on drugs.

 

[hal2kilo]

It's probably something he picked up on Fox News. He's not very bright. Sensible people see this as a step forward in the failed war on drugs.

He's either old or lives in a bubble. I can say old because I consider myself to be at the threshold of old fartdum.

 

[rudeguy]

What on Earth is going on in this post? Are you implying that Obama is currently on drugs? There's a significant difference between "user" and "abuser," and I fail to see how Obama has crossed that line. And then you venture into the truly deranged and go for the Nazi comparison. Come on man, you generally seem intelligent, don't let political differences shut off the oxygen supply to your brain.

I do think it's interesting that the last three presidents we've had have all copped to using illegal drugs at some point in their younger days. If you can experiment with pot or cocaine and still become President of the United States, how bad can they really be?

Obama admitted he abused drugs.