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In reply to the discussion: New Hampshire Poll Shows Majority Supports Legalizing Marijuana [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)Because the reality is that Congress is the entity that makes or changes laws.
They are responsible for keeping this shitty law on the books for years. They are the ones who deserve your ire, more than the President.
That's the real truth. Should you expect a President to tell Congress he's going to undo the law without first looking at the people who are refusing to honor the will of the people in the states that elected them?
That seems backassward to me.
The ones who should be held accountable are the ones who are elected to represent the people of various states. Let all the Representatives from all the states that have changed their laws take up the task of changing the way Congress deals with this.
Let them ask, on national tv, why one guy on the judicial committee, some Republican worm from Texas, held up discussion of a decrim bill in 2011, for instance.
The problem is that politicians are not leaders.
That's why everyday people have had to lead this fight.
We see that an overwhelming majority of Americans, for more than a decade, have supported legal medical mj. Yet Congress continues to walk around with its head up its arse on this issue.
They don't have the courage to go up against the bureaucracies with power in DC, such as the DEA.
They prefer to ruin people's lives, cause human suffering, and make themselves look like cowards rather than deal with bad law.
It's been this way for a while. It was this way with Clinton, too.
Congress is shirking its responsibility to the American public.
Of course, in rural areas of the nation, Congress people may like the bad law b/c it brings money to their districts via for-profit prisons, too. So, they're not just shirking the law, they're keeping law that is no different than slavery on the books, in its ability to deprive someone of their rights, their assets, their living, in order to allow a few assholes to turn a profit.
Ain't that America, tho?
However, knowing how horrid this system is, YES. I DO think the executive branch should change the law by rescheduling.
I know, however, that Obama doesn't care about this issue because he doesn't like the "stoner stereotype" that goes along with it in the media. Maybe he thinks marijuana should not be legal - he said the same.
So - it gets back to state and local-level political changes that make it impossible for the feds to continue their actions without becoming the laughing stocks of the entire nation (which they already are regarding this issue, but they don't seem to care - must pay well.)