Pot smokers vs. President Obama: Let’s Vote

I am sad that Obama has trashed this country to our friends over seas. They think Obama is a loser

I think we need to include help for anyone that is so crazy,bored enough to look for places to bash someone that has not had a chance to fix 8 years of crap!!!!!!!!!

If D.A.R.E. didn’t have a voice Obama would have continued his quest to legalize drugs. Obama is a conditional decision maker; none of his decisions are based on our Godly moral convictions, but what makes him Obama the focal point. He is an unqualified, arrogant, stutting self serving man. He is failing and Americans will not have him much longer. The Bible says “Pride goes before the fall” Wow maybe you unbelievers need to get educated from the God of this Nation. This nation has never failed or fallen because of our Great God.

I am so glad. This would be the only good thing done by Mr. Obama since becoming President. Still I continue
maintaining my “F” vote for his first 100 days.

Ellen,
What a story! I can not imagine the hell your were put through, and I read the truth in your words. Alcohol kills. No debate, and no one can question that…as does ciggs. Especially the thousands of creepy drugs put in cigs.I battle the tobacco addiction every day. Now that they cost over $5 a pack, bye bye smoking. I know exactly what happens when a person gets high daily, and the same for being drunk. Give the people the responsibility to moderate their choices. If one can purchase legally a fifth of 100 proof booze, and fall over dead, or kill innocent people, as you mentioned, I see no reason, NONE that pot equals jail time, but let’s drink all night long…smoke tobacco, too!! See the reason…it’s ALL designed to create zillions of dollars for Doctors, Hospitals, Local Municipalities, Lawyers, etc. it makes me sick. We the people. Remember that?? Come on America…STAND UP for WE THE PEOPLE!! Change MUST happen.

If they did make it legal. They would probably tax the hell out of it anyway. I retired from the Navy and I can’t afford cigarettes and I can’t get a appointment at my local VA Doctor to get some nicotine gum to help me out. Read I only have a 3% chance to quit without some help. Cigarettes.

I resent being portrayed as a drug user. I do not use recreational drugs or misuse/abuse prescription drugs. I don’t believe your characterization applies to the late William F. Buckley or Milton Friedman either. I do not support legalizing marijuana, per se. I oppose prohibition. I oppose the waste of resources on ineffective policies especially when they promote violence, organized crime, and the imprisonment of millions of Americans for menial transgressions. These prohibitions, also, hinder effective programs that could have positive effects with the problem of drug misuse and abuse. It is STUPIDITY to keep policies that have so demonstratively failed.

The sad thing is that if the marijuana question had NOT surfaced, those “Open For Questions” sessions would be hailed as a ‘great success’, and not some ‘hijacked fluke.’ When is Obama and the nation going to realize that support for legalization IS large and widespread? When are they going to WAKE UP?

Legalize it. I share the same opinion as those before me. Tax it and sell it. Honestly, no one has the American consumers best interest because everyone (goverment and such) wants to tax us to death to begin with. The only reason why they are going after the tobacoo giants like they have is because they are making so much damn money. They won’t go after Alcohol companies because they are all drunks themselves and there is probably a great big kick back somewhere in the picture too. They don’t give a hoot what happens to us they just want our money. When they can figure out a good way to tax it and get beyond the Christain mind set they will offer it to the American consumer.

I think what most of what the Generation X group, and there younglings are trying to say is that the War on drug’s is a loosing battle. Marijuana does not cause traffic accidents that kill people Alcohol does. For being a mind expanding drug I, don’t think so. Marijuana gives off the feeling of feeling alright, your quite alert it also makes you hungry, thristy and you laugh. I can’t think of any time that someone actually started a war or a fight being high on marijuana, were as to it’s counter part alcohol which has caused a lot of problems for a lot of folks. As the the Drug companies I’d think they like to get in on the high profit of the industry. It’s the Alcohol related companies that don’t want marijuana legalized. Let’s go back to prohabition when alcohol was illegal and marijuana wasn’t politicians in washington DC were persueded with there payoff’s and alcohol was legalized and marijuana was banded by the US Government, it never was an issue on any ballot to be voted on by the people just like alcohol. I feel that Alcohol kills our children that drive automobiles and it kills there mind’s. Where as to marijuana has it’s medical benefits for folks that have glucoma that is a vision disorder and marijuana doesn’t kill. With the correct regulation placed on marijuana consumption and taxed by the Government, this not only would end an era of war that the Reagan Adminstration placed on the DEA to battle back in the early 1980′s it has cost the American taxpayer plenty and there loosing the war. It’s ever going support for more coming into our country daily and there seems to be no end to it. If it were legalized this would be a blow to the one’s bringing it in and a country with it’s consumers would turn a profit the government could not even imagine….

before anyone FREAKS OUT, i’ll tell ya, i’m a patient, not a criminal and WOULDN’T be alive today if it wasn’t for POT!!!! instead of having a closed mind, give it a chance, make it a “pilot program” for a set number of years, see how things work out, if it turns to “anarchy”, cancel it–but ALLOW PATIENTS to have access. i have suffered with chronic pain due to a degenerative condition in my spine and would have died with out it from all of the prescription medications doctors’ were more than happy to write!!! prior to my illness, i was a productive member of society, on the meds, i lost over seventy pounds and would have died if it wasn’t for a hospice nurse recommending it. i was never for total legalization, but in doing research on medicinal use, i became EDUCATED on all of the positive aspects, no overdoses, no domestic violence, and it works well on severe nerve pain. i will sit down with ANYONE to debate the issue. i live in illinois where a medicinal use bills are currently being voted on in our legislature. i am greatly dismayed that support has been split down party lines, whe that happens, it means one side doesn’t want to be “confused” by facts!!!!!

Certainly a Hot Topic, no easy answers. I have Multiple Sclerosis, and there have been many studies on how marijuana is beneficial. I know first hand the side effects of the medicines I take, it just means more medications for them also. I hate the thought of all the man-made chemicals being heaped upon me, and I am not fond of the various MS pain and symptoms. Is it right that I am denied something that will ease it? People are using it anyway, it is not going to be stopped. It is not any worse than alcohol, has proven medicinal benefits and we need the money.

Oh yeah and less prisons.

Not to mention several million less drug dealers selling it to children on a street corner instead of buying it a liquor store or coffee house. Why would the government want that?

for christ sake….. its a HERB! GROWN OUT OF THE GROUND LIKE MY WIFES FLOWERS! PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME A REASON ITS THAT BAD! Yeah… we will lose lots of the officers that are paid and the dogs and the other 2 sence that linda put in the topic. but reguradless….. it doesnt make people violent…. it doesnt make them commit suicide which causes more cold cases on this planet. and may i said with bold structure that making it legal… can put Less stress on people.. less drama given in the court house.. you know. when the judge wakes up and they have a marijiuana case too solve…. they already have it all figured out. 9 months probation . then there on probation, fail the 2nd time because its a problem in there systems that they really cant help because they are just as addicted too it as they are tobacco. They go too prison / juvi. And people in prison and juvi EVEN THEN have the drug there. But there are crazy epople that. And the criminal justice system has another issue when that person dies in jail. When instead, that person could of sat at home and been relaxed just smoking and feeling good. You be the judge. Legalize!

[QUOTE]I’m a recovering alcoholic/addict/smoker
who can be addicted to anything that feels good, tastes good, etc.,[/QUOTE]
Apparently you have an addictive nature and should avoid anything that would cause you further problems. But just because you (and a very minor percentage of people) are genetically predisposed so that you’ll become addicted to -anything- doesn’t mean that the vast majority shouldn’t be able to do it.
Or put another way, according to your statement we should ban Alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, painkillers, cough syrup, hell, even sugar. Matter of fact, why don’t we just ban breathing, that way we can all hold our breath until Heyzeus Christo makes his big comeback tour.
– :D

@thview98
Keep your god out of my business. More blood has been shed in his name than in all the drug wars on Earth, ever.

I’ve never smoked weed or used any non-prescription/non-OTC drugs, and barely used alcohol (just enough not to be a tea-totaller). I’m still against prohibition and strongly believe that every person has a right to their own body and what they want to put in it.
In fact, I’m against criminalizing ANYTHING that isn’t demonstrably harmful. It isn’t our right to interfere in the personal choices that other people make. That’s what FREEDOM is all about, though I know that has always been rather unpopular in the United States and many other societies.

I am a certified substance abuse counselor with 30 years experience in my field, 17 years of which I spent in DUI countermeasures. During the past 20 years I was also a volunteer E.M.T.
I know all too well the devastating consequences suffered by individuals and society due to the abuse of certain drugs, especially alcohol. And I fully support the legalization of marijuana for personal adult use.

marijuana should be legal its basically legal in Canada and parts of europe it should be decriminalized all over the u.s. if not legalized in my opinion. it could also help the economy and also lead to scientific studies, many colleges cant legally study marijuana or thc. but some studies of concentrated thc have concluded that brain cell growth can occur in humans.

I have a comment, first off, maybe being
able to smoke marijuana, is not the best thing, to repair the bad economy,it’s about having personal,freedom’s, that we can enjoy something that GOD, put on this earth that we live on.to maybe do us some good, this maybe not be for every one,
but the one’s that want it, should be able to get it, without retributation!
Obama, please do not be a hipocrite,let the
people be free, as the are suppopsed to be in the USA,andhave a say so, even if two people don’t blike it.thank’s and have a nice day.

im 18 but i was smokeing weed since 14 it helps me relax and get all my worries behind me so i vote yes 4 weed

make pot legal mr president and i will vote for you next election thank you pot for all