Obama is a fraud (drug policy)

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I was hugely disappointed by Obama's comments on cannabis legalization as well.

I totally agree with you but NO POLITICIAN will ever try to legalize marijuana or other drugs. The government and feds make way to much money off of the insane drug war.

I support legalizing weed, but I'm not certain the economic benefits would be all that significant. A lot of people are employed in the manufacture and distribution of alcohol and tobacco, and users of these drugs pay high taxes, but it hasn't saved the economy.

I expect weed would be about the same.

But Obama could have just said, "This is one of the issues we need to take a close look at. Our decisions need to be based on the best available scientific and medical information and our obligation to protect individual rights and freedoms."

If you're going to put somebody in prison, you better have a damn good reason. The a**hole didn't have to act like it's a joke when citizens demand liberty.

With right wing Senators calling for armed overthrow of the government, bankers looting the world, now is not a good time to give them more ammo.

The problem is in many parts, worse than the banks.

Truth is, pot heads forget to vote.

We also have Crack, Meth labs all over, and people taking drugs I have never heard of.

Alcohol taxes fund the governments, pot heads hardly drink.

Alcohol makes Political Donations.

People drink more, and the cheaper stuff during a recession, so taxes go up when other taxes go down.

What will happen this time is already happening, States are speeding up releasing prisoners.

This cuts back on staff, makes the courts consider who they can send to jail, and hence the police in who they can arrest.

Pot heads are just used to make the numbers, we need a better system.

Armed robbers are a dangerous lot, murders, and are worth the same points to police and courts as a pot head, and lets not forget who is behind this, the lawyers. Drug laws are lawyer welfare.

I think we need a better point system, with bonuses for police who catch armed robbers.

I recently reviewed the death row group in Texas. I found I could not make it in law enforcement. I would have put a bullet in them, two in the head.

I would say go the Methdone route, Medicalize it. All drug use, including those pushed by Psychiatrists, should be reviewed by an MD.

The active ingrediants in pot are available in pill form, so a script for weed could work.

All of those people who grew up in a world without drugs are dying off, they made some bad choices, we have some problems.

That has problems, Amphetimines and Barbituates were perscribed for nearly a third of America in the 60s, people who thought pot smokers should be shot. Besides that they drank, and lots died.

Lots are still knocking down a fifth a day and more, and have been for years.

We are a bunch of apes prone to addiction.

Besides lawyer welfare, the drug companies also are on the payoff lists, so with acohol, lawyers, drug companies paying off and bringing in taxes, change is unlikely.

Drugs are a problem in south Texas, as the gangs have automatic weapons, and shoot police on both sides of the border. Mexico has had to bring the army to the border, a violation of our agreement between Nations, and their Constitution, which forbids the army enforcing the laws. 7,000 dead in Juarez, something had to be done.

We have the same seperation between military and police. Police have to see the people as the enemy, we do not want the Army to think like that.

This is all very complex, and we have some very large problems before us. The World Economy.

Marijuana: One Cause of Schizophrenia

While it is very likely that other illicit drugs may cause some cases of schizophrenia, marijuana is by far the leading offender, perhaps in part due to it being the most popular and most heavily abused illicit drug. Marijuana causes temporary paranoid feelings in many users and mild perceptual hallucinations are common. However, the research evidence is extremely strong, proving beyond any reasonable doubt that marijuana causes a large number of cases of schizophrenia in the modern world. A number of studies have found marijuana has a stronger link to causing schizophrenia than other drugs. While some other causes of schizophrenia have decreased, e.g. brain injury and in utero infections, marijuana has made up the difference....

http://www.modern-psychiatry.com/marijuana2.htm

I was under the impression that schizophrenia was several orders of magnitude less common than marijuana use.

The problem is that giving people the liberty to use drugs infringes on the liberties of others.