Thread: Obama: Pot 'not very different' to cigs

Originally Posted by barbaro

Originally Posted by Necron99

How does the Prez get away with encouraging the breaking of a federal narcotics law?

Because he is the Prez.

I presume he does not agree with the federal law and classification of pot as a class "A" drug. Nixon did that.

There are people sitting in federal prison for selling medical marijuana in California. Legal under CA law, but against fed law, so the feds prosecuted and the jury was not allowed to be told that this pot in CA was legal under CA state law.

That was under GWB. Prick.

O's been as bad or worse.
Obama: Marijuana Dispensary Busts by Feds Aren't About to Stop | The Informer | Los Angeles | Los Angeles News and Events | LA Weekly
Here's how he wiggles out of that one:

What I specifically said was that we were not going to prioritize prosecutions of persons who are using medical marijuana. I never made a commitment that somehow we were going to give carte blanche to large-scale producers and operators of marijuana ...
That's what he told Rolling Stone this week when the magazine asked him "what's up" with his administration's heavy prosecution of marijuana businesses in medical-legal states like California, where Oaksterdam University was raided by agents earlier this month.
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No more pettifoggin' sophists as president would be a good start.