I hate to be crude, but that was a 7-on-1 gangbang with the DEA talking head getting pounded hard.

Also, I think if the tobacco companies are smart they'll throw their money behind the legalization movement. Think about it, all they would be doing would be switching out one plant for another. Their whole business model could stay the same, they could even cut out rolling cigarettes as folks will be more interested in buying whole, fresh bud rather than dried, pre-rolled crap. And they wouldn't have to spend millions actively defaming their own product (remember, most anti-smoking propaganda is produced by the tobacco companies themselves) as the health effects of cannabis aren't nearly as dire as tobacco and you don't even need to actually smoke it.

Anyone else see a day where we'll be buying five gram packs of Marlboro Cannabis and vaping it in a Marlboro-brand vaporizer?

Alcohol and tobacco are by far the top two drugs used in the Netherlands, whereas in the states Marijuana is now tied with tobacco cigarettes because of tighter regulation and stigma surrounding cigarette smoking.

Considering what the tobacco companies did with cigarettes... give them marijuana, and if there’s a way to make it addictive and dangerous, they’ll find it.

I’m 100% behind legalization of possesion, use, and non-commercial cultivation/production and distribution of marijuana and most if not all other drugs (except where the production entails a physical danger, such as operating a meth lab in a residential area — but that’s a safety and zoning issue, not a drug issue). But for crying out loud, let’s not turn the corporate profiteers and marketing hacks loose with it; haven’t they done enough damage?

not MSNBC

I'm crying with joy. That was the most powerful human rights advocacy panel I've ever seen on TV. Beat their f'ing doors down Rob Kampia!

I do on a daily basis. And I have been writing them for years now giving them numbers and economic rationalizations for reform. It seems enough of us have been doing this to get them to listen.

Also, their resident right-winger, Larry Kudlow, was forced into rehab years ago by a wife he was divorcing, she went to court and said he was snorting up his net worth to keep it out of the settlement. Kudlow is an economist, a stupid as shit economist but an economist none the less. It could be that he and Jim Cramer and other like minded folks at CNBC supported the idea of putting together that hour long marijuana markets piece that CNBC aired earlier this year.

I was really impressed that their economics reporter, Steve Liesman, referred to the 'rule of law' issue. That showed that he is thinking deep thoughts on this issue. This was the most substantive question asked of Hutchinson. And he could not respond to it. Neat.

All that Hutchinson could do was fear-monger with the 'for the children' rant. And no one there, including Kampia, had a good rebuttal to his crap. I am going to write to the CNBC people on the panel and give them my counter-argument. Kampia too.

Recent polls have made it clear that cannabis legalization is no longer an ‘if’ but rather a ‘when’.

The energized media focus on reorganizing drug policies reflects what the talking heads believe is a popular topic for public consumption—one that is no longer likely to come back in the future and bite them in their ass.  Additionally, a faltering world economy and a vicious civil war in Mexico over control of drug territories have added new dimensions to the debate favoring legalization.

This good news about reform does not mean that drug law activists can rest on their laurels.  There will be plenty of moralizers and corporatists such as Asa Hutchinson who will continue to do battle with the forces of freedom and democracy, this despite the fact that losing media support means their Normandy beachhead has successfully been breached.  Thousands of new opposition troops will now pour in to liberate the world from drug tyranny and oppression.   This time the wave of change will not crest and roll back.  Victory is within our grasp.

Giordano

these reporters are all fuckin idiots..... "hard drugs like meth, cocaine, and Marijuana? fuck hah

wake up you fucking morons.... weed has been helping people for it's whole existence and is not a drug let alone a hard drug.....

will never legalize weed if he did .police would assassinate him like they did JFK .they will not give up that racket they got going.so get ready for more robberies beatings and murders.

Did anyone miss the fact that Hutchinson classified cannabis as a “hard drug”? That puts him well away from Western categories of drugs and on par with human rights backwaters like Dubai and Thailand. Amazing that this guy was the head of the world’s most powerful secret police. Also, is it not interesting that he was the only one on the panel in favor of prohibition and had a Southern accent? Is it any real stretch of the imagination to conjure up southern slave holders arguing with free-state advocates? After all, if the drug war is about anything, it’s about slave labor from incarcerated minorities—a big boon to industry because prisoners can’t unionize for better pay and conditions.
Hutchinson’s final comment, that he wants to “Strengthen our culture” through continued police terror tactics and incarceration was laughable until you ask the question, whose culture? Why, the culture of the nanny state and the bureaucrats that run it, of course. Substitute “cult” for “culture” and you will have a better picture of what he really has in mind (same etymology).
Hutchinson, like Goebbels before him, just wants what’s best for his Homeland.

...Arkansas, is where Asa is from. And he desperately wants to get back into the political waters.He's a full blooded yahoo, just like his brother Tim, the once upon a time senator. When it comes to freedom or a strong culture, they're both frauds.

Moral?

Kidnapping/extortion in violation of the 8th Amendment for supressing the safer substances (Marijuana and Coca) in order to protect the more dangerious alcohol and tobacco?

Talk about white is black and black is white- that which has been long promoted by Jesuitical Georgetown University and company.

Why marijuana? I believe that marijuana should be legalized for the same reasons that you do, which is medical use, some control over the use of marijuana, and a better economy. Former President Jimmy Carter once said, "Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual then the drug itself"

I've posted my breakdown of Hutchinsons arguments on here

or when they say drug problem etc. in debate. If they are not saying prohibition violence or terrorist run war against drugs,you know they are terrorists themselves. same goes for the terrorists who call themselves police.