Alternet: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Wants to Keep Arresting Pot Smokers

[Warren DeMontague]

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/debbie-wasserman-schultz-keep-arresting-pot-smokers

[font size=4]"We have a DNC chair stuck in the last century when it comes to marijuana policy"[/font]

Wasserman-Schultz has been widely accused of favoring Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary campaign. Her comments on marijuana aren't evidence that she's biased for Clinton, but they do put her on the same pot policy page as Clinton, who is not ready to legalize it. Bernie Sanders, on the other hand, has railed against the absurdity of marijuana prohibition and introduced a bill to legalize it.

Ohhhhhhh, the misogyny!

[cherokeeprogressive]

1. You are aware that THC and testosterone start with the same letter, right? nt

[Warren DeMontague]

2. I knew it!

It's a Patriarchal Pot Penis Plot!

[bvf]

6. Mind if I steal that? n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

7. No prob at all.

[cherokeeprogressive]

8. I tried to say that three times really fast...

and I bit my lip.

[cali]

3. She's quite cozy with the private prison industry

[Warren DeMontague]

5. And the liquor industry.

She's a fucking train wreck as DNC chair. She also alienated Millennial women voters in that same interview, for no good reason beyond perhaps her own petulance.

[hobbit709]

4. the pri$on indu$try i$ one of her $pon$or$-follow the money.

[Warren DeMontague]

27. Which is odd, because I suspect people still drink plenty in Denver and Portland.

Seems awfully zero sum thinking on their part, but anyway.

[Truprogressive85]

9. And guess what

DWS has keep her CCA buddies happy got keep filling those cells with bodies,and people that are thrown in jail are black and brown

Yet you have HRC supporters claiming to care for black and brown people ,yet support the chairwoman who wants to see those black and brown people in jail

[Warren DeMontague]

19. Odd, isn't it?

[NobodyHere]

10. Well to be fair

She probably is against jail time for her family members that are pot users.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

16. "cut it out"

it is rude to point out a persons hypocrisy

[Warren DeMontague]

24. Nah, 'cut it out' is for terminally ill cancer patients who have the nerve to use cannabis

to ease their chemo nausea.

Well, to be fair, it's not so much "cut it out" as it is "COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP!"

[SoLeftIAmRight]

25. as a colorado grower

we have moved past this

looks like things are going to get better in lots more places

[Warren DeMontague]

26. Yeah, oregon is legal, too.

Clearly, though, Debbie wants to rectify that situation. Sounds like we're gonna need a lot more prison cells.

[CharlotteVale]

11. K&R

[TheFarS1de]

12. What she needs ....

is a good long toke

[jkbRN]

14. +100

[jkbRN]

13. WTF

Someone needs to tell her that type of rhetoric belongs in the Republican Party, not the democratic.

Gross.

[rhett o rick]

15. The Third Way has blurred the lines between Conservative Democrats and Moderate Republicons. nm

[Warren DeMontague]

18. Hell, barely any of the GOP candidates are clamoring to throw pot users in prison at this point.

She's reactionary by national standards, not just those of our party.

[Warren DeMontague]

17. Unhinged people don't understand how great the Drug$$$War is.

Clearly.

[Warren DeMontague]

20. It's odd to me how people will moan about how "creepy" the criticism of her is, while themselves

agreeing that she's a crappy DNC chair.

And it sure doesn't seem like people want to defend her record on shit like opposing medical marijuana.

Why?

[Fumesucker]

22. I"m told she's a fantastic fund raiser

And we all know that money is the mother's milk of politics.

[Warren DeMontague]

23. Color me skeptical.

I suspect she's raising money hand over fist right now for that guy who is going to primary her, though.

[Douglas Carpenter]

21. knr

[tishaLA]

28. such a patently ridiculous position for any politician

of either party, but especially for a Democrat. It's embarrassing that so many people in the party are so regressive re: weed.

[Warren DeMontague]

29. She's in the distinct minority.

It must really piss her off that 34 million californians are probably going to legalize it, next.

[Warren DeMontague]

30. In addition to giving incoherent answers, she also lies in her NY Times Interview.

"I don’t oppose the use of medical marijuana."

[Warren DeMontague]

31. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Who Are You Calling Complacent?

http://forward.com/sisterhood/329370/debbie-wasserman-schultz-who-are-you-calling-complacent/

[Warren DeMontague]

32. I wonder if Hillary is calling her and asking her to do more interviews like this next week?

Somehow, I doubt it.

[Warren DeMontague]

33. Hey! she's not alone. Chris Christie also wants all the pot users put in prison.

How wonderful, that our DNC chair is ideological soulmates with the Thugorvner of New Jersey.

http://hollywoodlife.com/2016/01/14/rand-paul-republican-debate-protesters-chris-christie-marijuana-video/

[Warren DeMontague]

34. Pols such as Chris Christie and Debbie Wasserman Schultz have long been against marijuana law reform

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/marijuana-not-gateway-drug-so-why-do-leading-republicans-and-democrats-say-otherwise

she keeps such nice company.

[Warren DeMontague]

35. "Likewise, as a member of Congress, Schultz has a long history of voting in favor of continued

cannabis criminalization and repression. She is one of a handful of Democrats who voted in opposition to an amendment that sought to permit VA doctors to recommend cannabis therapy to veterans in states that already permit the plant’s medical use."

[Warren DeMontague]

36. Kick for relevance.