Barry Obama believed in total absorbtion.
Yeah, it's funny until people start going to jail...
There is news here, actually. Here's a Politico story from yesterday.
NEW BILL TO LIFT FEDERAL BAN ON MARIJUANA...
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Obama with Barbara Walters on legalizing pot:
Obama breaks same marijuana promise in '08 & '12.
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Choom Gang: Obama And The Audacity Of Dope
I don’t have a problem with Obama — or anyone else — smoking dope.
I have a problem with hypocrisy.
Not only did Obama use marijuana in his youth, he also used cocaine, and reportedly crack. Today around 400,000 Americans are jailed for non-violent drug related offenses. That’s 400,000 outside of the workforce who could be out working and producing, instead of burdening the taxpayer, who pays to create profits for well-connected corporations in the prison-industrial complex.
Put more simply, there are more black people in prison as a result of the drug war today than there were slaves in 1850.
He is willing to keep jailing nonviolent citizens who did nothing more than ingest or possess a narcotic, and deny them their liberty. He is willing to enforce racist laws and policies that lock up and criminalise a disproportionately high number of minorities, at a huge cost to the taxpayer. He is willing to deny medical marijuana patients the medicine their doctors have prescribed. He is willing to maintain the drug laws and the drug war, that (lest we forget) are the thing that are empowering and enriching the Mexican drug smuggling cartels and urban criminal gangs, and creating huge violence and thousands of deaths throughout Latin America.
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