June 06, 2013

AS MORE AND MORE STATES MAKE WEED LEGAL...

"Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder continue to fight the War On Weed as if Nancy Reagan were in charge. Or Harry Anslinger, for that matter. This fight has been very quiet, for the most part -- Obama has given no major speeches touting his crackdown on marijuana -- but it has been a fierce one nonetheless. When Obama was first elected president, he promised his administration would set "science-based" policies and allow states with medical marijuana laws to experiment without federal interference. He has broken both those promises, to be blunt (no pun intended). The Department of Justice has taken a very hard line indeed, even in states with legalized medical marijuana. Which is why marijuana advocates are so worried about how Obama and Holder are going to react to Colorado and Washington legalizing marijuana. Nobody really knows what Obama and Holder are going to do. And (not to be annoyingly repetitive) after five whole months we're all still waiting to find out." Don't you love it when a supposed Democrat is less progressive than Colorado? Maybe he's taking $ from the private prisons now who want to keep jailing pot smokers. Even though he's not running for anything, he still needs the money to...continue his failed policies after he's gone? MORE: HUFFPO