That hopey changey thing at the Department of Justice

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11. I don't think that Clinton = perfect

Yes, Clinton's record on pot isn't great either but it should be noted that it was a much newer issue back then and that he was probably closer to where the country was then than Obama is now. But that said, on drugs, Clinton learned the wrong lessons from his brother Rodger's experience and applied them to the country. The fact is our drug policy has been wrong headed for years but the pot part is especially egregious. I do think Obama's personal history of major pot use does make his behavior in this regard worse than Clinton's, just as Clinton's minor use of pot makes his conduct in this regard worse than Carter's. The fact is Holder's DOJ has helped ruin many, many lives for doing exactly, precisely what Obama did, and wrote about doing, while he was in high school. And often the people whose lives have gotten ruined for this conduct, smoking pot, have done so for reasons far more high minded than the reasons that Obama had for smoking pot. You call this issue a lightning rod, it is a lightning rod for good reason. Putting cancer patients in jail for smoking a few joints when you were appointed by a President who smoked pot to get baked deserves to be a lightning rod.

I will say one other thing about the issue of the doctors. I do have a problem with doctors writing prescriptions for pot willy nilly. I understand why they would do it. I frankly think that marijuana should be completely legal but when it isn't and when doctors have been given the power to write scripts, that power should be used honestly and forthrightly. It is a corrupt practice for a doctor to write a script for pot for people who have no disease that pot is supposedly treating. I would have huge problems with doctors doing this for money as it would make me wonder just what other dishonest conduct they would engage in for money. Thus I don't think investigations per se were a problem but if a doctor followed the laws on the books of his or her state than the investigation should be ended.