Damn right it's not going to work. This amounts to nothing more than screaming and covering your ears to drown out an opposing argument. We are winning.

Obama & U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes have something in common. They don't want a discussion. Well, the prohibitionists just showed how concerned they are that they ignore, then coerce. The drugs wars are forcing the issue and so are we. We're going to win because to allow the failure called prohibition to continue will be the ruination of us all. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, your name will go down in history as a roadblock to peace. But, you will not deter drug reform.

...for what, exactly? More drug war, no doubt. Sounds like governmental ,organized blackmail to me. Afterall ,Texas is the official pri$on $tate. But ,at least the cow has left the barn.

Of course they don't want to talk about it. An honest discussion would prove the drug war a failure and expose the lies. Regardless of what reformers might want to believe, there is more money in prohibition than legal marijuana for instance. This is what they are trying to protect. Obama must know that legalizing marijuana would be worse for the ecomomy than the money generated and sustained by the industrial prison complex, courts, law enforcement, testing labs/supplies, lawyers, etc. The drug war has evolved into BIG BUSINESS. Much bigger than alcohol prohibition from the past.

Reform will never come by showing that marijuana is safer. It won't come by showing the green economy potential of hemp. Reform will never happen because of the tax potential of legal marijuana. To me, the only way reform will come will be to show human rights violations against drug users. The convicted drug user is that same as the Jew in the Nazi holocost. It must be expose that convicted drug users are providing a legal form of slavery (prison labor) today. It must be common knowledge that drug users are taking abuse (losing their property, losing their families, losing their freedoms) soley for PROFIT. To me, all other angles are a waste of time.

This was actually the perfect end to this situation. Even if the council had voted to override the veto, nothing would have actually happened. No one would have discussed legalization as the resolution asks. But, by threating to cut funding and scaring the council into upholding the veto, the public once again sees the ridiculous tactics employed by the prohibitionists to continue their pointless war on drugs. Everyone must tow the party line when it comes to the war on drugs, we can have no dissent, no discussion, no opposition. We must all band together and chant drugs are bad, drugs are bad, drugs are bad, repeat, don't think, drugs are bad, etc.

Just as with the alcohol prohibition. Prohibition breeds corruption among criminals, politicians and the justis dept, it's just open black mail.