Snoop Dogg Wants to Get High With President Obama and Convince Him to Legalize Weed

[boston bean]

As always, Snoop Dogg has an innovative approach to getting things done. He told Hot 99.5's Toby Knapp that he would convince President Obama to change the drug laws by first getting him nice and relaxed...

Before I even said "Hi" to President Obama, I would change the aroma of the room. [...] And then we could start conversing after we had that aroma change. You know what I'm talking about? [...]

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[tridim]

1. Obama already knows.

[boston bean]

2. knows what?

[tridim]

9. He knows what it's like to smoke pot

[think]

3. He does look a little "pie eyed" there

[Enrique]

4. Obamas advisers would never let this happen

before the election anyway. Second term, go for it.

[liberalmuse]

5. I honestly love Snoop Dogg.

And he's right. I desperately want President Obama to legalize gay marriage. What's in it for me? Absofuckinglutely nothing. I'm not gay, but feel pain when I think that there are some people who want to marry, but can't. Like Snoop, I'm in it for selfish reasons. He is a notorious pot smoker, so it makes sense. I'm just tired of feeling the pain.

[T S Justly]

6. His getting high days are over, Dogg. He's in his putting folks in jail for getting high days, now.

[liberalmuse]

7. His Bush II Padded Justice Department is, anyway.

I'm going to wait and see if this is actually something our President supports. My guess is that he'll come around.

[tridim]

8. Got a link listing who Obama has put in jail for "getting high"?

DERP.

[T S Justly]

11. The President's appointees and Executive agencies reflect the President's guiding principles

Now, I direct you to a link to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, an agency under the purview of
guess who the fuck who?

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=office%20of%20drug%20control%20policy&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Fondcp&ei=uqMLT-inKcaUgwfYp-i9Bw&usg=AFQjCNGTFH5XAFvZ0F5y5JTRDxpTzw3EkQ

Now, if Obama isn't literally jailing pot smokers, personally, the amount of Federal assistance he sends to local and States' police departments, and what those departments do with it, should make it obvious that Obama provides much of the means necessary for the continued jailing of people getting high.

[tridim]

12. So, no link.

Your post implies he made a change that is resulting in more arrests for "getting high".

What change did he make?

[T S Justly]

15. Lol, when is a link not a link?

But, your second assertion, that my post implied he made a change, applies to the metamorphasis
Obama underwent in the journey he took from bong-wielding toker in his early days to staunch Administrator
of the Federal war on cannabis, and fiscal provider of local and States' efforts. You also assert
that I implied he ramped up the war on cannabis beyond the scope of Bush, nope, since I haven't looked into funding differences between Bush and Obama's ONDCP annual budget requests and approvals by Congress, I couldn't have implied that. But, maybe it's true. I'll look into it.

So, where does that leave you? I know it leaves a lot of Democrats cold. I know, because Obama's a cold man
when it comes to cannabis.

[tridim]

27. I asked for a link that shows Obama putting people in jail for getting high.

Your link doesn't show that at all.

[T S Justly]

28. Lol! I don't think you're receptive ...

To less than perfect evaluations of Obama and his presidency.

[tridim]

37. You don't have a link because you made it up.

Now you also have to provide a link to his directive to "crack down hard" on people who get high.

Keep digging your hole.

Edit: sorry, that's vincardog that has to provide that link.

[T S Justly]

38. Well, then, delete post #37, and repost under the correct post.

Other than a refrain I've heard before and answered, most of your message was
for the other poster.

[RainDog]

24. well, there is this...

[RainDog]

25. and this...

For past two years, more Americans arrested for marijuana than all other drugs combined despite arrest protection for America’s One Million Legal Marijuana Users

Nationally, there were 1,638,846 drug arrests reported to the FBI, with 52.1% of those arrests for marijuana charges. Last year, 51.6% of all drug arrests were for marijuana, showing a slight increase in marijuana as the majority of all drug arrests. The last time marijuana made up a majority of the “War on Drugs” was 1985, when 55.6% of all drug arrests were for marijuana.

Keep in mind that these annual marijuana arrests continue to climb even as we reduce the number of marijuana users eligible for arrest in the medical marijuana state, users who grow and use the most marijuana.

Between one to one-and-a-half million people are legally authorized by their state to use marijuana in the United States, according to data compiled by NORML from state medical marijuana registries and patient estimates. Assuming usage of one-half to one gram of cannabis medicine per day per patient and an average retail price of $320 per ounce, these legal consumers represent a $2.3 to $6.2 billion dollar market annually.

...Geographically, the Midwest usually makes headlines for the devastating epidemic of methamphetamine manufacture and abuse. However, 63.5% of all drug arrests in the Midwest are for marijuana use (53.9%) and cultivation (9.6%). The South also makes more arrests for marijuana possession (51.5%) than any other drug charge.

But these are national stats. However, since marijuana is illegal at the federal level, such policy has a big impact on state-level actions. If cannabis were decriminalized nationally, these numbers would fall.

[tridim]

26. The poster claimed "OBAMA is putting people in jail for getting high".

That chart says nothing even remotely similar.

Words mean things.

[RainDog]

29. Yes. words mean things. So do actions. n/t

[Vincardog]

30. Is you point that Obama is not a cop? His ADMINISTRATION is cracking down hard

on MM. His administration is OBAMA. What is so hard to get?

[RainDog]

31. parsing words

it's the same thing as stating that Obama supports medical marijuana, or the Drug Czar saying there is no medical use for marijuana, then changing this to "smoked" marijuana as Bayer/GW Pharma puts Bush Drug policy admins on staff to create a false dichotomy between Bayer cannabis and home-grown (as in Cali, etc.) cannabis.

[Vincardog]

33. WHY? WHAT point are you trying to make?

[RainDog]

34. I'm the one who posted the graphic that illustrates the increase in marijuana arrests

the point I'm trying to make is that is makes no difference if Obama says he is for decriminalization if he does nothing to make this happen.

Obama also said the war on drugs is a failure.

And yet, as the graphic I posted above shows, the number of people arrested for simple possession is greater than arrests for all other arrests as part of the war on drugs.

I'm simply showing that actions matter more than words.

[Vincardog]

35. My previous was was in response to #26

[tridim]

36. His adminstration is NOT "cracking down hard"

Sounds like you know something I don't. Give me a link to the "crack down hard" directive.

Hint, there is none. You're making it up.

[Vincardog]

39. You do know that the DOJ is shutting down MM dispensaries all over CA? Or

are you trying to pretend that unless we have a signed BO memo telling them to do it that he is not responsible?

[tridim]

41. Did you know that the few CA dispensaries that were raided were breaking STATE laws?

Thousands of legal dispensaries in CA remain open and thriving.

RE: Obama. You made the outrageous claim, back it up with proof.

[RainDog]

43. If the War on Drugs is a failure, as Obama said

why perpetuate it?

[UTUSN]

10. Yip, *that* oughta help!1 nt

[bullwinkle428]

13. I would pay MAJOR BUCKS to watch this pay-per-view!

[SomethingFishy]

14. Snoop just got busted.. At the same Texas checkpoint where Willie got nailed.

Folks if you are on a tour bus, air it out before going through Texas.

[FarLeftFist]

16. Just read that Snoop Dogg got busted over the weekend for MJ possession.

[SomethingFishy]

17. Yup.. just a citation though,

it was less than a quarter. Which makes me think he's gotten a bit smarter and doesn't travel with large amounts of weed. I mean, it's fucking Snoop, you'd expect him to have a pound or so on hand at all times

That checkpoint is notorious for drug busts. Especially among tours. I know a number of roadies who enjoyed a few nights of Texas "hospitality" thanks to that checkpoint.

[On the Road]

18. Don't We All

?

[REP]

19. Beat me to it

[FirstLight]

20. teehee

[Recovered Repug]

21. Beats the hell out of "Beer Summits". nt/

[zanana1]

22. Didn't Ron Paul promise he'd try to legalize weed? nt

[me b zola]

23. Someone needs to smoke a bowl with the President

Snoop, Maher, Willie. Any of them would light him up but good and remind him a bit, each in his own way, that real people with real lives are out there, not just the bots that roam the corridors of DC.

[bigwillq]

32. ....

It's funny how quickly Obama (and his administration) have forgotten this.


Nice! Got this post in at 4:20!

[alp227]

40. Bad enough that Fox News had to post this stupid race baiting post

(screenshot via The Atlantic)



Snoop is only fantasizing.

[sofa king]

42. I hear weed confuses order of operations....

First, convince him to legalize it.

Then get him high.

That way he doesn't get impeached.

This message brought to Snoop by a guy who isn't high.