It is so opposite to what the CSM thinks marijuana could do for Obama.  This publication must be run by a bunch of morons.  If Obama surprised everybody and pushed for marijuana legalization at this point in the campaign and kept us out of a war with Iran, he would probably get all the Ron Paul votes and more.  If the pro-marijuana legalization numbers are accurate, with the country at 50% now, it could help him get re-elected easy.  And by pushing a drug war, as the article suggests, loses him votes.

So why are these politicians so afraid of marijuana?  Because the corporate whore media would crucify anyone who goes against their prohibition economy (criminal justice, law enforcement, military, for profit prison system, drug therapists, pharmaceutical companies, medical testing facilities, petrochemical, textile, alcohol and tobacco, etc.).  And they do not care that millions of people's lives have been ruined because they got processed through the criminal justice system and got a criminal record for marijuana.  Drugs are illegal -- so that has given them the right to stomp on drug user's life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and make a profit from it.  In the future, prohibitionists will be looked upon as violators of human rights.

Imo Obama will stiff the weed faction, since they dislike his other deeds anyway. O has nothing to lose there and everything to gain from his large black church lady vote. 

Obama is going to be forced to address the issue during the campaign. And Romney has mostly stayed away from this issue, so he might be able to use it against Obama, especially if he is able to say that he had to do it to make Ron Paul happy.

Three presidents have smoked marijuana, and thank goodness none progressed to the harder stuff. That's proof enough to throw out the gateway drug theory. The Department of Health and Human Services has US Patent 6630507 titled “Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants” and in the patent it describes their opinion of cannabinoids having medical value. Mayo clinic has requested Federal changes that would allow scientific and medical research into benefits (anti tumor activtivity being one). Most American's have tried pot or knows someone who has. The list goes on and on.

While Washington prepares for the big event in November, several branches of the Government are busy destroying patients access to a plant that provides treatment and relief for thousands in the same way it has for the last 5000 years. Good people are losing their livelihoods and patients and providers alike that follow their own States laws are being prosecuted and incarcerated. People are going to jail and prison. A war on home soil against Americans by Americans the likes of which history has never seen is being waged by almost every branch of the Federal Government.

There are no secrets here. Nero watched while Rome burned then blamed it on the Christians.

By the time November arrives without some relief for the many thousands involved, the game might change from "blind mans bluff" to "Pin the Tail on the Donkey". Who will Obama blame then?

Google the following terms:

Obama June 6 2008 Chantilly Virginia

Bite the (bankster) hands that lifted him to the throne? Of course not!

Two words - pharmaceutical lobbying


And thats about it folks.

He said in 2008 that he wouldn't raid medical marijuana clinics, then raided them and used a tactic Nixon once considered using, Use the IRS to harass them.

Now he says he won't oppose legalization during the 2012 campaign. But after the election, he'll let the DEA loose.

He should fire the DEA head and get someone who knows how stupid the war on drugs is. It lasted longer than Vietnam and Iraq combined.

If everyone reading this wrote to the president, and urged him to support legalized marijuana it could help if the response was overwhelming.

You can write him here:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

After the Prohibition of alcohol was made a constitutional amendment and all the lovely, LOVELY times that followed (the uptick in organized crime being one of the major ones), it was conservative women that originally pushed for the prohibition, and it actually ended up being a conservative woman who turned to middle of the road democrats that carried the next amendment through the public ratification process, abolishing the prohibition.  Also, much like the current marijuana prohibition, what was illegal was the manufacture and distribution, never the use.  Also like this time, the big arguments they used to help end prohibition:  much needed tax revenue during the Great Depression, weakening the stranglehold of organized crime by taking out a major source of revenue for them, and righting the social hypocrisy that many Americans lived with:  alcohol was illegal and people went to the streets saying it should stay that way, then many of them (politicians and big players included) would go straight home to the bottle.  Stop me when these two start to blend together for ya.

Point is, the American government doesn't really care what you put into your body (just look at the side effects of the first five pill bottles you find in your dad/grandpa/whoever's medicine cabinet), the only thing they care about is who is making the money off of this stuff.  To be more specific, they don't want you, the little guy, making money off of this in an honest way.  That's why we have to go the public route, state by state, and literally show them again and again that we do want this and we're tired of them pretending to act like they know what's best for us when any dolt with two seconds of research can see how counter-intuitive that argument is.

Thanks but no thanks. There really are certain people and cohorts of people that I just don't want on our side of the table. The loony tunes that call themselves Christian Scientists are an excellent example.

The Christian Science Monitor isn't being very "Christian" in their positions about pot, pot consumption, and pot prohibition.

There is a certain contrasting quality between judgments within the world view of the proponents of the war on cannabis and Christian theology.
The "everything is toxic" philosophy embraced by the ONDCP toxicologists and controlling offices such as the FDA and DEA is the exact opposite of sound Christian theology [1,2], and the corollary truths built upon it are not Biblically founded, and can be proven to be Biblically incorrect. -And if it's not Theologically true, if it's not true in the Bible, than it isn't true at all [3].
No Bible believing Christian can accept any "toxicology" studies or reports from the ONDCP in good conscience, when they consider the axioms that were used to build their studies. Do Christians adhere to "scientific" theories about big bang and evolution? No, and we can also reject the observations of the ONDCP about cannabis on similar grounds when all things are considered in a clear systematic theology. One must "Test The Evidences" that come from outside Scripture.
Scripture, tradition, and reason imply that all things are good, and that substance (such as foods and drinks) only becomes toxic in it's misuse, that is, in the uses that are not in order with the purposes God created them [4]. The Scripture's warnings against these philosophies are traditionally viewed as warnings about the Gnostics of the second century. It was a blending of Jewish, Greek, or Eastern philosophy with Christianity. These Gnostic errors are widespread, they appear century after century, and shows itself in many forms of religion, not merely in distorted forms of Christianity. In life application today, we can see that same Gnostic germ resurface in our society in the influence of modernism and postmodernism.
The war against cannabis is a frightening illustration, in that it is successful in stifling Evangelism within the local Church, and not many Leaders recognize what's going on, despite the fact that it devastates the lives of millions in perdition. This ascetic teaching is unnatural, contrary to the constitution of the world as that has been arranged by a holy and wise Creator, and it is also subversive of Christian liberty. Nothing can be esteemed common or unclean without throwing a reproach upon the Creator. [5] To further discover the long term consequences of these unnatural teachings, we can observe the characterizations and acts employed in the war on pot have a resemblance to the warnings in Scripture regarding the signs of false teachers (which are directly linked to signs of the coming Rapture of Christ's church). The war on cannabis shares at least 2 key qualities as the Gnostics. In the presence of the negative implications of statements such as "there is no way to teach this to you in a brief, " and, "everything is toxic, there is no harmless substances. ", the Christian should be reminded that encouraging formalism and asceticism as the result of false teaching is traditionally known as the activities of demons [6]; and the acknowledgment of liberty of conscience in a free moral agent is the formation of evangelical theology- for this very reason the Reformers left the Roman Catholic Church! [7]. The binge drinking phenomena we see in the just say no generation, as well as the licentious rebellion in the 60's, is evidences of the "fleshly indulgence", or antinomian development that results from these ascetic teachings. [8,9,10]

To summarize; The Christian world view and the ONDCP world view can be sharply contrasted. In the ONDCP world view, the Truth is "everything is toxic" and application is "just say no". In the Christian world view, the Truth is "God's creation is good" and application is "be ye sober". The Scripture provides us a sharper, more accurate understanding and response to the subjects of cannabis use in society than the secular drug use prevention community. And as Biblical passages are weighed and discovered as this more accurate Truth, it should bear witness that the Gospel message of Jesus Christ is Truth. We should lend thought to this greater spiritual Truth for which the Bible is compiled as evidence of; That Christ made atonement covering and salvation for our souls. "For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that he world through him might be saved. God publicly displayed him as the mercy seat accessible through faith, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, but by grace are you saved through faith, and it's not of yourselves, it is a gift from God. For whosoever believes in Him will not perish. If you confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." 
 

 Please Obama has done more to harm the movement than any sitting President since Nixon.

He's already said it's a legitimate topic for debate.  And if he has to, he'll continue to say that forever.  Meanwhile the DEA, Justice Department, IRS, ATF and other feds are actively "opposing" legalization.  I'd say it's getting opposed pretty well right now without any (apparent) involvement of the president. So why would Obama have any need to oppose legalization?

If I read "Christian science Monitor" I remembered my time in this Christian-Science sect. Yes, it's (just) a sect, that became a big influence in America, rather in Europe. They prohibit EVERYTHING totally, that has any influence to consciousness (without their prayers) or body and adjudge everybody who likes something like that.

Their rules there are worldly innocent and not to realize at all for really deseased people... And those rules are to neglect by sane thinking and feeling people. They never will become something relevant to population.

So - Christian Science Organisation remains to be a sect. Not more, nor less. And Christian Science Monitor remains to be their overdimensioned whisk... Not to take really too serious...

What do you expect from a group of people who base their entire existence around religion.  I can not think of anything more braindead than that.  Religion ruins everything.

If Obama tried to make a case against weed, all it would do is intensify the debate on the subject and that's the last thing those CSM clowns should want, they don't have a prayer if the proper status of cannabis is debated fully and honestly.

We need a safer alternative to alcohol, and cannabis is far safer than alcohol to life, limb and fetus. The public health community is fully aware of this and is being very derelict in not pointing out all the ways alcohol is far more likely to lead to catastrophe than cannabis. 

One thing that has struck me as odd. Since becoming a medical patient, I really feel that the biggest fear of marijuana smokers by the Government is the idea of having thoughtful voters.

There's a world of difference between not opposing and supporting.

This legalization effort is in that world now. We are in the discussion stage. That's what our debate is over.

I need to hear a definite statement of support or opposition. If Obama wants to ride the fence, ok with me - more power to him. I want to know if another 4 years will see him riding that same fence. Its a mind reading job right now unless your vote is going 3rd party.

I need to know before November.

The refusal of either party to take up marijuana legalization when 50% of the country would support them just shows who they really work for. Without the War on Drugs,  they can't justify the billions of dollars that taxpayers spend on the DEA and other law enforcement branches. If all that money is gone, the jobs will be gone and all the people that work there will have to look for work in the private sector. But if the taxpayers aren't paying each other for jobs, who will? The rich 1% would have to of course, or risk violent revolution. The rich elite that run the two major parties want to keep their money of course, so they'll never support legalization.

It's like a ponzi scheme: the old investors are the government workers and those on government assistance, and the taxpaying middle class are the new investors. This is why we have a national debt that just won't go away.

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