Reply #35: he ridiculed it

[dreamnightwind]

Obama ridiculed the issue and its supporters, like an arrogant self-righteous SOB. Like those to whom it's an important issue are somehow deluded. Like the net roots is off its rocker. Like there's not a perfect storm of factors that all point to legalization.

The storm? The Mexican cartels, the badly needed tax revenues, the completely insane number of incarcerated pot smokers and sellers, the climate for change, the 1st president to admit having used it (I don't recall W admitting to it, could be wrong though), the widespread adoption of pot as medicine, the many many wonderful uses of hemp.

The criminalization of millions of citizens who enjoy perhaps the most harmless recreational drug we have is unconscionable.

Prohibition didn't work for alcohol. It enabled organized crime. It doesn't work for pot, it enables organized crime, and criminalizes millions of otherwise law-abiding and productive citizens the government need have no quarrel with.

Obama didn't address the question in a reasoned, thought out way, he didn't support his position with facts, he laughed at it, to the delight of those in the audience.

I will never forget this, no matter how much I smoke, it was infuriating. And it was wrong.