I did notice Barry lying through his teeth, but i noticed something else.

Why is he lying, could it be that even this poster boy for the Drug War has come to see that the American people have finally bothered to educate each other on Marijuana's medical benefits and relative safety. He is trying to make it seam like he is less of a monster, as we write the next chapter in Americans love/hate relationship with pot.

Why do these news shows unfailingly show sketchy people smoking joints or pipes superimposed on dialogue?
I'm guessing it's to give the discussion some edge a la refer madness.
I also loved the part where McCaffrey says the Feds and the DEA never harassed patients and caregivers.
Off the top of my head I remember the DEA sending out notices to landlords threatening them with god knows what, IRS scrutiny perhaps, if they didn't evict medical dispensaries.

Wait, Did McCaffrey just say that the care givers behind the medical marijuana dispensaries are Mexican cartels? This guy! A perfect new angle against every medical dispensary! This guy is off the wall and has been for decades. But it makes you think: could the situation in L.A. become similar to the one in the Netherlands? Where criminal syndicates supply the bulk cannabis and the police look the other way? I don't think so, but it's interesting to speculate. Obviously the major drawback to this nice-try paranoid fantasy is that we are already doing it in bulk in Nor Cal, not to mention other states like New Mexico who are licensing growers.

These are the kind of things that happen when our tax money is used for evil. So sad.

I was glad to see that Lou Dobbs show some civility with his LEAP guest, Peter Mokos. When Dobbs introduced LEAP speaker Terry Nelson to his audience over a year ago, he gave Nelson this warm welcome, "Now here's a idea of lunacy. Cops that want to legalize drugs".

Dobbs tried to set a trap(So you want to legalize all drugs!?!) for Mokos which he skillfully avoided. Dobbs has been a cheerleader for the drug war as he regularly visited the issue before Health Care Reform started to dominate the news. I was suprised and pleased to see his calm demeanor throughout this interview.

You could see the slim bag in a suit squirm in his chair. Bold faced lies!! The light can be seen at the end of this dark horrible tunnel.

I think McCaffery just goes off when ever questions about the drug war arise. He's spouting off as though he's still the Drug Czar and doesn't seem to be aware of what's happening in the drug war.

I think to deny that law enforcement arrested sick and handicapped Americans and took them to jail, is the same as denying the holocaust.

He should have used the UNICORN DEFENSE. Dammit. Unicorns ALWAYS win, they do! ;)

So we have one national disgrace (Lou Dobbs) interviewing another national disgrace (Barry McCaffrey) about medical marijuana.  Isn’t it wonderful how the drug war brings people together?

Barry McCaffrey, along with his 24th infantry division, was accused by journalist Seymour Hersh of the unwarranted massacre and its coverup that targeted surrendering Iraqi soldiers during the 1991 Gulf War.  The killings occurred two days after a cease-fire went into effect.  McCaffrey never faced any formal inquiry or trial for his alleged war crimes.

Now, instead of burying hundreds of innocent victims’ bodies in trenches with bull dozers, McCaffrey is attempting to bury his past with regard to his record on medical marijuana as Clinton’s drug czar.  McCaffrey won’t stop lying, and he will never regret anything he’s done, nor anything else he will ever do.  The fact that a cold blooded monster like McCaffrey is allowed to roam freely rather than being sent to rot in a United Nations jail cell is a sad testimony to the standards of justice adhered to by the U.S. government.

Giordano

We'll use your words in as polite an epitaph as we can muster so that future generations can look back and wonder at the ego and moral superiority needed to totally disregard the obvious and well understood lessons from the prohibition of alcohol.

...history coming up behind him. This is the angriest McCaffrey I've seen. Must really bug him. He used his shot at the big leagues to criminally assault his fellow Americans just because an obviously evil wind was blowing at the time. He is a failure. All that training, time, and opportunity. All used to bring fire to bear on unpopular Americans...drug users. He kow-towed to Clinton's self-aggrandizement. So now he wants to influence how history will be writ. I look forward to watching him try and watching him grimace.

Just think about it everyone, if Mr. McCaffrey reverses his stance on the "drug war",
it would invalidate every decision he ever made while he was "Drug Czar".