Do you think there's a chance Obama might decriminalize weed during his term?
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no. He simply has bigger fish to fry. He's not likely to gain any supporters that he does not already have and will find himself at odds with people he is still trying to win over.
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I think he should take another look at medical use of marijuana.
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make it mandatory to smoke it with random blood-tests on the street to make sure you've had enough.
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hopefully NO!
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It would be a good idea but no. It won't happen for several years yet.
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Who knows but I think the Liberals are going to be upset because I think he will hold much more to a middle line in politics than he is expected to .
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I think he has many more important issues.
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Don't know what sort of influence he can have technically on the issue. If he can have any, I think its something he would want to take a look at. Even if he couldn't do anything overt by the second term he might lay some groundwork. Maybe the way its being handled right now is costing too much in all sorts of resources. Far more likely we will see a lot of purifying rather than intoxicating. Everybody's system can probably use a little purging. Its fun to guess. Dylan's song looks like its finally coming true 'the old road is rapidly aging, get out of the new one if you can't lend a hand, for the times, they are a'changing.'
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That would kind of go against what he is saying about responsibility. No offense to pot smokers, but, most of them aren't exactly the most responsible people in the world...
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No. That's a state issue. Not his business, my friend.
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NO,weed will not be decriminalized until the government has discovered a way to control and TAX it. Unlike alcohol and tobacco which can be regulated anyone can grow weed at their home...
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No. Although he has given lip service to decriminalizing some drug offenses in the past, it has never been a significant part of his platform. And, as noted by others, he has much bigger problems to address. . . .
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it would be good. but its not gonna happen as long as a Democrat or Republican is in office.
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I doubt it. Clinton didn't.
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I don't think so. It would be excellent if he did, but I don't think it will happen.
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I don't think so....
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Not his choice. Congress would have pass laws. He could propose such a law to Congress, but I think it would be a waste of time - Congress would never pass it. He has too many other things to do to get into a fight he cannot win.
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If the administration passes legislation to keep the populace stoned, they will find it easier to implement their socialist policies
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i hope not there are so many issues to deal with such as homelessness, unemployment and poverty, smoking weed can be a contributor to all these problems, who needs that, weed only makes you not think about no job no food no money no where to live once the high comes down.
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It would be the correct thing to do, though it will most likely be up to each individual state...
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only if it got OFF the streets (please, please!) haha
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Do the people who ask this question (and I've seen it at least twice) realize the kind of superhuman the man has ahead of him? Do they realize that the country is fast slipping into a depression and taking the world with it? Or do they think that because of that he'll take to marijuana and decriminalize it for his personal recreational use? Really, if anybody should have been asked that question that should have been Bush, I mean with his past history of drug abuse, he should have decriminalized everything including cocaine and crack
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Seems like more of a late second term kind of issue for him. While he did mention the idiocy of drug law at early points in his campaign, he has backpedaled on the issue and has made it clear that he will not address the issue at this time. The best thing you can do to change things is to smoke it, sow it, and overgrow the government.
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sure... crack too
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Personally, it seems like something that should be done state by state right now. He has a lot more important things he needs to attend to in my opinion.
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it will never be legalized. it will be too much of a headache. the closest they will ever get is by making it the smallest slap on the wrist like a traffic ticket.
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yes, it would be a good way to save billions of wasted dollars fighting a drug war. pot isnt a drug. why cant people understand that.
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Sure, he's just going to wave a magic wand and give everybody everything they ever dreamed of, no consequences and everyone is going to live happily stoned ever after off the fat of the land.
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Out of the first ten answers that I've seen, only Alec was the one to point out that "it's not up to him". Federal legislation has to be passed by Congress first, and only then does the President have the power to approve or veto the (proposed) legislation. One thing that Obama can and should do is rein in the DEA, however. Since there is nothing in the US Constitution about federalizing laws regarding drugs in the first place, there should never have been a federal DEA, and the existing agency should not attempt to supplant existing state laws in this regard.
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as a matter of fact while your trying to be funny my dear, my friends pour their wine in a glass. I dont drink. It is tacky to turn up a bottle, when you can purchase a glass! this was to be a response to a comment
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you said that I didnt. i dont know your friends and you dont know mine, so whose to say whose better all I know is that the President has bigger issues to deal with. Smoke i dont care buy it from me, make me rich.
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Its to early, he has to do a lot of important decisions.
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I think it would be a good idea. If it is legal than the government can tax it and the tax revenues from legalized weed would be enough to pay off the national debt tenfold.
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Absolutely. I say legalize it and tax it. Why should all the money go to the drug dealers? Let's tax it and use the money to fund useless wars overseas or bail out corporate CEO's who are greedy and stupid. Jimmy Carter wanted to and nobody in the Democratic Party would support him. Jimmy know the economic potential of a marijuana tax. Weed equals money.
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Somehow, I doubt it. I honestly don't think even an 8 year term will change how the majority of Americans view the use of a drug, even MJ. It's 30 years and counting here in Canada, yet the laws have only gotten muddier and traditionally as well as politically, our society has been a little more liberal than America's. Medicinal use is legal now, if it's supplied by the Government ( yep...our Feds grow weed) and most cops look the other way or ask you to put it out if you spark up or only have a joint or two on you but it's still technically illegal. The cops just don't bother, bigger fish to fry and the chances for conviction are small. Your Feds may watch and learn as we go through the issue and apply some of the lessons we learn but legalizing it outright? Nope. Look how long it took to have a Black American take that oath.
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Even if he does...I will keep after those thistles and dandelions til I get every last one of them!
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I think that he'd not really decriminalize it, but he'll probably try to work on what we're doing with the "war on drugs" bullshit- after the matters that are more pressing for him.
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I sure hope he'll try. But he will really have to fight all the conservative fundamentalists!
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