Barack Obama has pissed off the stoners again. He always does. In 2009 a question about marijuana legalization made him laugh , a hard to miss sign that he didn’t take the issue seriously. Worse than laughter has been his DEA, and its increasingly heavy-handed war on legal marijuana dispensaries. Now that recreational marijuana has been legalized in Colorado and Washington, his Department of Justice is weighing its options , and, reportedly, none of their options seem to be “just let people smoke their marijuana, because it’s harmless.”
Instead the feds are either looking to have a judge declare the state regulations invalid, or are out to browbeat states into recriminalizing the demon weed by withholding federal money. ( A similar strategy got the drinking age raised to 21 in every state, though it required legislation.)
Andrew Sullivan is not thrilled. There is some talk of “giving them hell."
Continue reading at: http://www.alternet.org/drugs/lets-make-obama-regret-his-war-weed
Tags: colorado, legalization, marijuana, obama, washington
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