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In reply to the discussion: Whhhaaaa...I can't have my pot so I won't vote for Obama. [View all]Romulox
(25,960 posts)37. When you say "women's choice", you mean "not including the choice to smoke pot," surely?
And when you say "women's health issues", you must mean "women's health issues that don't include safe access to medical marijuana."
And similarly, when you say "gay rights", you are purposefully omitting "the right of gays not to be persecuted for consensual activity in their own homes (which consists of marijuana use,)..."
And so on.
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I can't stand one issue voters. Like who the hell are they going to vote for? Mittens.
southernyankeebelle
May 2012
#5
Whaaa - I'm dying of cancer and the government is stuck in 1937 with marijuana prohibition.
Throd
May 2012
#7
OT, but I've heard that heroin is far more effective as a painkiller than even opium. Is that true?
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#25
This post is an indication of just how absurd this war against pot has gotten.
girl gone mad
May 2012
#96
Actually, he did promise that the federal government would take a hands off approach to MMJ.
EOTE
May 2012
#46
imo it's not the weed - it's the principle of maintaining the $tatus quo for...
polichick
May 2012
#17
Voting for Obama is a holding action in hopes of making a bad situation less crappy as
TheKentuckian
May 2012
#23
This is a remarkably ignorant attack against an overall compassionate community...
Luminous Animal
May 2012
#30
When you say "women's choice", you mean "not including the choice to smoke pot," surely?
Romulox
May 2012
#37
If they had meant "birth control", then why say "choice", which implies, well... nt
Romulox
May 2012
#41
There is no question in the OP at all. Can't answer a question that was never asked.
Luminous Animal
May 2012
#40
Correct, but the OP IS a challenge that demands one defend not voting for Obama solely on that basis
stevenleser
May 2012
#63
How many people here have actually said they're NOT voting for Obama?
Warren DeMontague
May 2012
#80
People who really think this is important would not be focused on the Presidency
treestar
May 2012
#51
You've been told that the President DOES have the power to reschedule Cannabis.
Romulox
May 2012
#59
Besides, if you had the ability to interpret US Code, you'd know this stuff already.
Romulox
May 2012
#70
There is no subsection (a)(1)(B)(2). It's not a good cite, under standard legal notation.
Romulox
May 2012
#75
It seems to me you want to have it both ways, isn't that what California did?
Uncle Joe
May 2012
#62
We can walk and chew gum at the same time. Remember "hold my feet to the fire"?
Warren DeMontague
May 2012
#79
I asked elsewhere in the thread, maybe you missed it: how many people have actually said that?
Warren DeMontague
May 2012
#87
it was a couple of other threads ---from now tombstoned members---that were posting that shit.
trumad
May 2012
#88
Is demeaning and caricaturing other DUers supposed to persuade them to your way of thinking?
stranger81
May 2012
#99