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Showing Original Post only (View all)Obama: Pot users not 'top priority' [View all]
Source: USA Today
President Obama says the federal government will not target recreational users of marijuana in states that have now legalized pot.
"We've got bigger fish to fry," Obama told Barbara Walters of ABC News, in his first public comments on the topic since Colorado and Washington voter to legalize marijuana on Nov. 6 referendums.
"It would not make sense for us to see a top priority as going after recreational users in states that have determined that it's legal," Obama said.
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2012/12/14/obama-marijuana-pot-users-colorado-washington/1769013/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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People make the excuse that he has to enforce the law, but he doesn't with DOMA...
Comrade_McKenzie
Dec 2012
#4
DOMA is different because the President has said it doesn't pass constitutional muster
Major Nikon
Dec 2012
#21
But of course he did defend DOMA for years, and of course DOMA is enforced
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2012
#24
The remedy there lies with the legislative branch, not the executive branch
Major Nikon
Dec 2012
#19
Congress has to change the law. The Exec. is powerless; it enforces the law!
Liberal_Stalwart71
Dec 2012
#63
if you think this is a "Major Policy Issue" then you need a serious reordering of policy issues.
grantcart
Dec 2012
#55
I am a liberal whose niece died because of the shame of aids in a third world country
grantcart
Dec 2012
#124
nor is Bankster reform, gun control, climate change, republican obstructionism, big oil subsudies...
PerceptionManagement
Dec 2012
#140
I already know where the jobs are/went because my job was off shored 30 years ago
NNN0LHI
Dec 2012
#30
Certainly. Abraham Lincoln said back then that in order to resolve a conflict put the
jtuck004
Dec 2012
#103
That is a moot distiction. Oregon's medical marijuna law requires each patient
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2012
#31
Folks, this is how it started with Obama and his opinion about marriage equality
LynneSin
Dec 2012
#14
If it's not done by 2014 election I suspect it could be a tool used by the GOP
LynneSin
Dec 2012
#106
I mean, why even vote for Obama if they don't have faith in anything he says or does?
Liberal_Stalwart71
Dec 2012
#86
I keep asking Obama's most ardent critics to start a Progressive Prez 2016 Group on DU.
JoePhilly
Dec 2012
#115
Sure, because we know what he tells Barbara Walters is as good as gold. nm
rhett o rick
Dec 2012
#29
Actually the DEA can reschedule marijuana under the CSA without an act of congress at any time.
DefenseLawyer
Dec 2012
#54
They don't care about that. They need something to whine and moan about.
Liberal_Stalwart71
Dec 2012
#88
The feds haven't gone after users of MM. They have gone after the sellers
Freddie Stubbs
Dec 2012
#116
Pure Waffle. So call off the dogs in Calif then! Or better yet save some money and legalize it!
on point
Dec 2012
#42
It's OK for him to have this approach right now. I agree that he does have bigger fish to fry.
Harriety
Dec 2012
#56
that will not go away overnight even if the feds flat out legalized it tomorrow.
uncle ray
Dec 2012
#92
Dozens of Colorado dispensaries have been forced to shut down by the feds.
Comrade Grumpy
Dec 2012
#134
I see that so many people here on DU must've failed basic civics courses in junior high.
Liberal_Stalwart71
Dec 2012
#64
Why so sensitive? I wasn't referring to any one person. I was referring to the fact that the Exec.
Liberal_Stalwart71
Dec 2012
#80
So when Obama issued a signing statement suspending deportation law enforcement
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2012
#89
I thought we were discussing pot users, no? And no, I don't agree with his deportation acts.
Liberal_Stalwart71
Dec 2012
#91
I declared ALL of you stupid? When did I do that? When did I target any one person?
Liberal_Stalwart71
Dec 2012
#97
right. Go with that. Everyone supporting administrative action. That ALL.
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2012
#110
A bunch of strawman arguments that no sense. But you knew that, right?
Liberal_Stalwart71
Dec 2012
#111
"I see that so many people here on DU must've failed basic civics courses in junior high. "
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2012
#113
Though not strong enough, it is a step in the right direction. We'd never see this
grahamhgreen
Dec 2012
#101