Obama administration loosens guidelines on marijuana prosecution

Tuesday 20th October, 01:40 PM JST

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biglittleman at 09:43 PM JST - 20th October

@Sarge

Game over!

Yes, the Republicans are over! I am glad we can agree.
Sarge at 09:51 PM JST - 20th October

"a tangled mesh of state laws and regulations"

Just like federal laws and regulations.
TheQuestion at 10:27 PM JST - 20th October

One more small step towards me being able to invest in a pot farm. I can smell the returns now, vaguely reminiscent of brownies.
sailwind at 10:59 PM JST - 20th October

COOL! Know maybe I don't have to worry about old hippie teachers, teaching my kids now when they are stoned.
usaexpat at 11:13 PM JST - 20th October

Good, maybe we will get to where Canada is, pot's not quite legal but everyone looks the other way. Mary Jane is the least harmful of recreational drugs and the money spent on prosecuting college kids is a huge waste. That's to say nothing of the prosecution or maybe persecution of medical dispenceries. One step at a time we'll end the war on drugs we've been losing since Reagon was in power.
usaexpat at 11:16 PM JST - 20th October

sarge: I think I smell a libertarian streak. I agree the big problem is the tangle of regulations. This should have come from the republicans as they supposedly value state's rights but thye've gone so far off track that they oppose the measure.
Suzu1 at 11:16 PM JST - 20th October

Takes the wind out of "states' rights" Republicans.

It doesn't do anything of the sort. No one except diehard activists think that what is going on in California - the blantant drug dealing from commercial storefronts under the guise of medical marijuana - is doing anything to reduce crime, drug problems, or the profits of drug cartels.

In my State virtually all home invasion robberies are tied to marijuana grows in the homes that purportedly for medical marijuana but are way beyond the limits of the law.

The new policy just says that Federal action will be taken only when there are violations of both Federal and State law. That was the case in the prosecutions under Bush and will continue to be so for those under the Obama administration.
zurcronium at 03:50 AM JST - 21st October

Another huge step in reflecting reality in 2009 as opposed to the bush policies which failed during the Reagan administration (just say no).

There are more medical week shops in LA now that starbucks. Pick your recreational drug of choice, dope or caffiene.

Dope should be legalized and then taxed. Then the mexican cartels that are buying NRA guns to shoot themselves and others would be out of business at least for the dope portion. And the states could get out of debt in the process by collecting the taxes.

This is why I voted for Obama, common sense responses to the failures of the bush adminstration.

And yes, if the millions of american dope smokers vote for Obama then indeed its game over for the burbon sipping lucky stripes just say no republicans. Bush did cocaine as we all know but that drug should stay illegal.
Noliving at 04:40 AM JST - 21st October

Another huge step in reflecting reality in 2009 as opposed to the bush policies which failed during the Reagan administration (just say no).

How do bush policies fail during the reagan administration? Are you talking about the then vice president policies in the reagan adminstration?
tigermoth at 05:17 AM JST - 21st October

I would agree in this instance on the use of mary j for medicinal purposes. If it helps the terminal get through it - why not? I think it should be legal and heavily taxed, like smokes and booze. But I would question the oft-made statement that marijuana is the most harmless of all drugs. I had a few college roomies that were big time potheads - like several times every day. Talking to them now the brain loss is evident. I think more studies are in order. I can see lab rats with tye-died tee-shirts with peace signs, a fattie, and listening to Hendrix.
tanglewood at 07:11 AM JST - 21st October

"This is why I voted for Obama, common sense responses to the failures of the bush adminstration."

If you think voting for Obama in an online 'have your say' poll got him elected you need to lay off the medical marijuana there.
SuperLib at 08:50 AM JST - 21st October

tigermouth: I had a few college roomies that were big time potheads - like several times every day. Talking to them now the brain loss is evident.

You mean they were sharp intellectuals when they were smoking pot several times a day, and now they've stopped and their skills have declined? heh

I knew some huge potheads in college and some of them are doing fine and some of them are idiots. Seems about par for the course. I knew some complete idiots who couldn't leave the house without drinking first, and they're still idiots to this day.
Suzu1 at 10:47 AM JST - 21st October

Bush did cocaine as we all know but that drug should stay illegal.

I love the way you state "as we all know". You know nothing except rumors you've read on moonbat websites. Obama admits to having been a cocaine user and yet he wants to keep it illegal. That is true hypocrisy in your world, no?
cooperstown at 01:57 PM JST - 21st October

"Hopium and Change", as the saying goes...
cooperstown at 02:00 PM JST - 21st October

“Now we’ve got to figure out what these words actually mean,” said Wayne Justmann, a longtime pro-pot activist in San Francisco...

Hoh, bummer, dude. Guess it's like, another decade or some shet til the guvmint can like, spoonfeed ya the, the, the - what were we talkin about?