Young Turks: Obama Cracks Down On Marijuana

[pokerfan]

Run time: 04:03 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDfCNXqQGxA   Posted on YouTube: May 06, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 304   Posted on DU: May 06, 2011 By DU Member: pokerfan Views on DU: 1504

 
The Obama administration has started cracking down on states where medical marijuana is legal. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss.

[Buzz Clik]

1. Most people with your kind of agenda hide behind the "Obama administration" meme in their title.

It avoids the obligatory, "Obama is personally cracking down on marijuana?" question.

So, when you are interested in smearing Obama for one reason or another, phrase your title like this, "Obama Administration Cracks Down on Marijuana". That way, you can smear all you like and avoid the distractions.

[pokerfan]

2. Nice try

but it's not my title.

[Buzz Clik]

4. You typed it in with your fingers without quotation marks. You own it.

[pokerfan]

5. If I "own" a title that I cut & pasted

then Obama owns the actions of his AG.

[Buzz Clik]

6. I see. So you absolutely disagree with the title of your own OP?

[pokerfan]

10. Reading comprehension much?

:shrug:

[ihavenobias]

12. Do You Agree With The Admin On This Issue?

That's the bottom line question, not the video title.

Here, let me rephrase it: Do you agree with the Admin (headed by President Obama) on this issue?

If you want to argue that the president is actually strongly against what his Admin is doing in this case, that raises other serious problems, doesn't it?

[MedfordTim]

13. What is your point?

Obama, Obama's adminisration, he's doing exactly what he said he WASN'T going to do. He deserves all the bad kharma people fling at him.

[dotymed]

3. My Opinion,

and if it is correct it would explain a lot of things, is that our country is actually run by a Soviet Style (made up of elite capitalists from major corporations..ie..Pharma, oil, insurance, MIC, etc..) Politburo that tells President Obama what to do and not to do.

They,IMO, became fully in power during the Reagan Presidency (maybe when JFK was assassinated or even before that). They are the people "pulling the strings." Our President, Congress, etc.. are just figureheads. It explains a lot. Like "meet the new boss, same as the old boss", etc...

Maybe that is just what I want to believe. I worked hard to help elect candidate Obama. He is visiting Ft. Campbell, KY today. Just ten miles down the road and I do not plan to try and see him (from afar of course) because I have been so disappointed.

Yes, I plan on voting for him again. To me it is the lesser of two evils, but I often wonder if it matters. Presidents used to actually make a huge difference. Maybe, post-FDR and the failed(?) coup by the elites was when it all changed. IDK..........but I do know that it has changed dramatically.

[90-percent]

7. The late comedian Bill Hicks agrees with you

Based on Obama's decision to continue with many unconstitutional policies from the Bush Administration, it does make this seem entirely plausible, doesn't it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MRykTpw1RQ

“It’s just a handful of people that run everything, and that’s provable… I have this feeling that whoever’s elected president, like Clinton was, no matter what promises you make on the campaign trail - blah, blah, blah - when you win, you go into this smoky room with the twelve industrialist, capitalist scumfucks that got you in there, and this little screen comes down… and it’s a shot of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you’ve never seen before, which looks suspiciously off the grassy knoll… And then the screen comes up, the lights come on, and they say to the new president, ‘Any questions?’”

-90% Jimmy

[civilisation]

8. Yuppers,. Obama has been told what he can an can not do,. .

the drug war continues,. the oil wars continue, the accelerating extinctions of species continue,. no end in sight. So if changing "leaders" changes nothing, then the banksters are in control, period.

[marlakay]

15. That is exactly what my husband believes

That as soon as obama became pres he was sat down and told what to do or threatened to behave for cprporate and military america.

[dotymed]

14. Sadly, that is entirely plausible.

:grr:

[FrankinMO]

9. The reason this is still an issue.

I consider myself a Christian. Will I talk to people about my faith? Sure, if they ask me. But it is mine to share, not to force.

If people want to smoke weed, that's on them and I really don't give a crap. I drink beer, and personally I think it is worse. I think some of those who think it is a moral issue, really don't control the debate for legalization. They pipe up and yell, but in the end it is about $$.

Keeping people in prison for drugs is a money maker. The war on drugs is a money maker. Selling prescription drugs is a money maker(so big its scary and funny at the same time). Being a lobbyist against legalization is a BIG money maker. And cotton.

The problem is, it is not money maker for you and me. This is just another "tax" on the working class.

Common sense rules, except when it comes to the government.

The day we get someone in office that will flip the bird to lobbyist and special interests, is the day...

40$ billion spent nation wide on the "war on drugs: in 2010.
Someone is arrested for violating a drug law every 19 seconds.

About that cotton.
Another thing to consider is hemp. Most people think of hemp as a hippy thing, but in reality there use to be farms all over the early US. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had farms the grew hemp.

hempfarm.org facts

Hemp is better at making paper than cutting down trees.
Cotton crops in the USA occupy 1% of the country’s farmland but use 50% of all pesticides.
1 acre of hemp will produce as much as 2-3 acres of cotton.
One acre of hemp (grown in a single season) yields as much paper as up to 4 acres of trees (which take many more years to grow).
Hemp paper is stronger, acid free, has a longer shelf life and costs less than half as much to process as tree paper.
Hemp paper can be recycled 10 times whereas wood-based paper can only be recycled twice without losing integrity and requiring additional virgin fibre content.

For some reason in this country we consider hemp be the same as marijuana. Sure they are cousins, but you're not going to get high off of hemp.

Why as a nation do we use cotton fabric which is more expensive, wears out fast, and costs more to mill. Then we cut down forests of trees to get paper.

A lot of people stand to lose $$ if marijuana becomes legal. Look at the cost of cotton? YOWZA!!!

I could go on and on about this, but I think we get the picture. The sad part is, 99% of the rest of Americans don't have a clue, or just don't care.

As long as they have their "reality" TV, reality escapes them.

[20score]

11. In a just world, anyone who ever tried pot and was in anyway tied to pushing the drug war, they

would be in prison themselves. And if they hadn't tried marijuana and were pushing the drug war, they would be ignored.

I am sick of sadistic, reactionary hypocrites,from Obama down to a homeless born-again.