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4HO-DMT


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No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says
#18739621 - 08/21/13 08:34 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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CNN

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President Barack Obama isn't looking to change current federal laws dictating the classification of marijuana, his spokesman explained Wednesday.
Josh Earnest, the deputy press secretary, said Obama "does not, at this point, advocate a change in the law" that places marijuana in the same class of drugs as heroin, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, and which deems cannabis to have no medical use.
Responding to a question from CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jessica Yellin, Earnest described the Obama administration's position on marijuana as mainly focused on prosecuting drug traffickers rather than individual users.
"The administration's position on this has been clear and consistent for some time now," he said. "While the prosecution of drug traffickers remains an important priority, the president and the administration believe that the targeting of individual marijuana users, especially those with serious illnesses and their caregivers, is not the best allocation of federal law enforcement resources."
A day earlier, Earnest said he couldn't say whether or not the president's personal views on medical marijuana had changed as he had not seen a column and documentary written by CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, which detailed Gupta's own shift on the issue.
Obama considered naming Gupta as surgeon general in 2009, but the neurosurgeon later said he withdrew his name so he could maintain his surgical career and continue spending time with his family.
Gupta's online essay on marijuana, published August 9, was titled "Why I changed my mind on weed." In it, he described changing his own stance on medical marijuana after researching the topic for his CNN documentary "Weed."
He also apologized for what he said was his misguided previous stance.
"I apologize because I didn't look hard enough, until now," Gupta wrote. "I didn't look far enough. I didn't review papers from smaller labs in other countries doing some remarkable research, and I was too dismissive of the loud chorus of legitimate patients whose symptoms improved on cannabis."
Obama last weighed in on the use of marijuana after two states – Washington and Colorado – legalized the recreational use of the drug.
"This is a tough problem, because Congress has not yet changed the law," Obama told Barbara Walters of ABC News. "I head up the executive branch; we're supposed to be carrying out laws. And so what we're going to need to have is a conversation about, How do you reconcile a federal law that still says marijuana is a federal offense and state laws that say that it's legal?"
Supporters of medical marijuana have largely been disappointed in the Obama administration's record on the issue. While many were hopeful Obama would discontinue Bush-era crackdowns on dispensaries in states allowing the medical use of cannabis, those raids have ramped up since 2011. Users of medical marijuana, however, have mostly been left alone by the federal government.
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Konyap

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Re: No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says [Re: 4HO-DMT] 4
#18739642 - 08/21/13 08:38 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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What a two headed fuck.
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un-known-ome
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Re: No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says [Re: Konyap] 1
#18739699 - 08/21/13 08:48 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Konyap

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Re: No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says [Re: un-known-ome] 2
#18739713 - 08/21/13 08:50 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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<- man kissing terrorist
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Le_Canard
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Re: No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says [Re: 4HO-DMT] 4
#18739732 - 08/21/13 08:52 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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physicist said: Supporters of medical marijuana have largely been disappointed in the Obama administration's record on the issue.
Boy, that is quite the understatement.
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Konyap

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Re: No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says [Re: Le_Canard] 1
#18739738 - 08/21/13 08:54 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Josh Earnest, the deputy press secretary, said Obama "does not, at this point, advocate a change in the law" that places marijuana in the same class of drugs as heroin, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, and which deems cannabis to have no medical use.
"The administration's position on this has been clear and consistent for some time now," he said. "While the prosecution of drug traffickers remains an important priority, the president and the administration believe that the targeting of individual marijuana users, especially those with serious illnesses and their caregivers, is not the best allocation of federal law enforcement resources."
Double truth
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StygianKnight
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Re: No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says [Re: Konyap] 5
#18739852 - 08/21/13 09:17 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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He's basically saying I smoked mine, now I'll smoke you, thanks for the vote suckers!
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sonamdrukpa
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Re: No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says [Re: StygianKnight]
#18739914 - 08/21/13 09:28 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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If Obama does anything on this issue, it'll be when he's lame-ducking it. His political capital is already drained enough.
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Re: No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says [Re: 4HO-DMT] 1
#18739939 - 08/21/13 09:32 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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With or without you,change is gonna come.
-------------------- Rocks speak to me, and tell me this: The Hell Creek formation is a gigantic slab of rocks that covers several western states. It contains an account of the dinosaurs' demise. In the late Cretaceous period, the first Cannabis species appear, and soon after, all the non-bird dinosaurs disappeared. Obviously, marihuana killed the dinosaurs. That giant meteor that smacked the yucatan peninsula right afterwards, coincidence.
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Re: No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says [Re: Rockhound]
#18740114 - 08/21/13 10:15 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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It'll just happen after 2016, if another, more open minded president is elected, if it's a hardcore conservative, we all may have to buckle down for the long haul.
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Led Zeppelin
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Re: No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says [Re: Futuresight] 4
#18740394 - 08/21/13 11:52 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Futuresight said: It'll just happen after 2016, if another, more open minded president is elected, if it's a hardcore conservative, we all may have to buckle down for the long haul.
conservative or liberal, were all fucked
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bourgeo
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Re: No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says [Re: Futuresight] 4
#18740537 - 08/22/13 12:41 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Futuresight said: It'll just happen after 2016, if another, more open minded president is elected, if it's a hardcore conservative, we all may have to buckle down for the long haul.
I can't believe people even bring up political parties anymore. All of them are working against us. The system itself needs to be changed.
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orison
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Re: No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says [Re: bourgeo]
#18740581 - 08/22/13 12:58 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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guns are pretty fucking awesome...
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Re: No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says [Re: orison]
#18741157 - 08/22/13 07:56 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Honestly what has he fucking done that he said he has! This is bullshit half the fucking people I know voted for him just because of this... fucking politicians!
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Futuresight
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Re: No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says [Re: Gorlax]
#18741784 - 08/22/13 10:52 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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I just meant that a conservative is more likely to not support legalization, also said nothing about political parties. I do not support the two party system either.
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luvdemshrooms
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Re: No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says [Re: Futuresight]
#18742025 - 08/22/13 11:55 AM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Futuresight said: I just meant that a conservative is more likely to not support legalization, also said nothing about political parties.
Given a choice between a conservative that tells you what he plans/thinks and a liberal who lies through his teeth to secure your vote... I'll go with the conservative.
-------------------- You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers
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StygianKnight
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Re: No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#18742134 - 08/22/13 12:16 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Aww, you think you actually have a choice!  Politics is a bit like ghostbusters, you're going to get a conservative whether you like it or not, you just get to choose the name and form of your destroyer. It's not like our last 4 presidents didn't lie through their teeth as well.
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Repertoire89
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Re: No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says [Re: 4HO-DMT]
#18742189 - 08/22/13 12:28 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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The war goes on I guess, 100 more years of oppression 
I for one will not change my stance in 1000 years.
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Re: No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says *DELETED* [Re: Futuresight]
#18742190 - 08/22/13 12:28 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Post deleted by Sillyputty67Reason for deletion: 1
-------------------- 1) Everything I ever posted or say is a lie.
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Repertoire89
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Re: No change in marijuana laws coming, White House says [Re: Sillyputty67]
#18742196 - 08/22/13 12:29 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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malicom said:
Its a game. When will people stop playing?
Well whats there to do? Kill all the vampires and new ones spring up, thats the consolidation history has to offer us.
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