Marijuana: Pot will be rescheduled if Obama or Ron Paul win, advocate says

• Tobacco can be grown privately.. Just drive though Kentucky and look in anyone's back yard.

• Sad but true. 10 years ago bars could sell Cannabis and hash . Mushrooms were legal also . By next year Cannabis will be for Dutch only . No tourist will be allowed to buy in coffee shops. This will just start up street dealers again . 

• Another restaurant cliaimed to use fresh mozz arella cheese,where it's dishes were actually made with economy cheddar.the "fresh pasta"advertieshed on another meau tumed out to be frozen.--Agedate. ℃⊙M--a nice and free place for younger women and older men,or older women and younger men,to interact with each other.

• Another restaurant cliaimed to use fresh mozz arella cheese,where it's dishes were actually made with economy cheddar.the "fresh pasta"advertieshed on another meau tumed out to be frozen.--Agedate. ℃⊙M--a nice and free place for younger women and older men,or older women and younger men,to interact with each other.  

• Another restaurant cliaimed to use fresh mozz arella cheese,where it's dishes were actually made with economy cheddar.the "fresh pasta"advertieshed on another meau tumed out to be frozen.--Agedate. ℃⊙M--a nice and free place for younger women and older men,or older women and younger men,to interact with each other.

• tobbacco has seeds too you dont see anyone growing it in their house now do you

• nice incoherent babble crack head. (that little dot at the end of the sentence is a period, look it up). i would love to see youer bud. lets have a challenge. you bring your shitty herb and i'll get some from a local dispensary. let billy judge it.

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• sounds like your herb sucks bro. maybe you should put more time into your crop instead of being on westword blogs all day.

• You think dispensary owners don't have issues to them you are nothing but a *money maker*to them they hate that you stand in line to check out their not flushed not cured pm &mites bud out only to say I don't like that kind let me see another or the dispensary down the street has better prices and they give me free stuff they hate on all their patients they don't like you they just want your money!

• Evrything was fine when caregivers was all we had now that dispensaries opened up they ruined it all.now mmj is one big mind fuk the dispensaries have took marijane and Dragged her threw the mud and threw her in the street like a 2cent hooker.now you can buy 120 dollar oz of warehouse weed that's not flushed not cured and full of pm and mites

• Wow ur amazingly informed!

• I agree rev- that memo is a joke and not a petition. How lame. I might as well write a letter to the pot fairy asking for rescheduling!

• Just like Mason Tvert saying he "didn't think" law enforcement would continue to enforce the controlled substances act (CSA-prohibitions (laws) on cannabis) if #30 passes next Nov.  even though their language does not remove the prohibitions (laws) from the books.  So we should all feel great that Mason HOPES LAW ENFORCEMENT IGNORES ENFORCING THE LAWS (all) remaining on the books. 

• And he is a proponent of #30.  If he is this far off on Obummer and was totally off in helping pass hb1284 --  what makes sense in supporting his #30?

• apparently you don't do any research on someone before you comment. santorum isn't an actual guy... he is the frothy mixture of fecal matter and lube that sometimes occurs from anal sex.

• Brian Vicente is living in another world from the rest of us.

• Robert--you don't rely on Brian's feelings here yet you seem to rely on his feelings for #30. 

• You can count on me having the seeds and growing my own.  Looks like Mit Romeny will be the next President who is NOT in favor of regulating anything like alcohol except alcohol.

• You're right, after last night doesn't mean shit

• What about those douche bag customers that show up a couple hours late, full of excuses, if they show up at all, complaining about the quality while you risk your ass and give your all to be a caregiver?

• But they cannot tax somthing you can grow in your house, yard. They could never police everyone. Someone will always have a seeds and will grow there own over something they can go buy at a gas station.

• having a caregiver is like being 17 all over again. i get to wait any where from a couple of hours to a fucking day for him to stop by. i get blown off on occasion and then get to hear the bullshit excuse. not to mention when they fuck thier shit up( pests, herming). then you get to find another supplier. instead, i think i will go buy some whenever i want, be in and out in 10 minutes and get to choose from 20 different varieties in one shop. not to mention how hard it is to find a good caregiver. most of the hacks on CL are flakes.

• and you think your ring leader

• right on point.

• winning iowa doen't really mean shit. huckabee won iowa in 2008 and he wasn't the nominee. so not all hope is lost. paul could still pull it off

• is healthcare one of those 156 kept? because if it is then that is complete bullshit. instead of healthcare for all we get mandates to buy healthcare from insurance companies. the whole point of universal healthcare was to get rid of the middle men (the insurance companies). now we have to buy from them. that is a fail and not what was promised. do you get it? this fuck sold progressives down the river. and this cock sucker thinks we will fall in line when the election comes? i say fuck you barrack obama. you should list these supposed 156 promises kept. i would love to break them down for you one by one. toodles

• a signing statement doesn't mean shit. the law he signed into effect(ndaa) states that u.s. citizens can be held for " prolonged detention" with out due process. any idea how long prolonged means? very good shithead. they can hold you indefinitly. again, signing statements don't mean shit. the actual law does though. so, wish for a re-schedule of cannabis on obama's watch in one hand and shit in the other. see with one fills up first 

• Interesting tally, Countess. Thanks.

• Ron Paul will definitely get my vote. I just wish he was running on a Libertarian ticket instead of the GOP's. As for Obama, I'll be happy to see him go.  Hillary would have been the much better choice for the Dems. She's got more balls than Obama and every three-legged member of his cabinet. But I digress. At present the Feds are primarily concerned with lining the pockets of the big pharma, lumber, and petrochemical industries and have no problem accepting countless millions every year from the tobacco and alcohol companies (whose contributions cover nearly all of the yearly operating costs of the US Office of National Drug Control Policy... can you say conflict of interest???) I never expected cannabis to achieve full legalization unless there was a way for the US industrial-military machine to profit from it. Once upon a time the US patent laws made it illegal for anyone to obtain a patent for any natural, organic substance in existence. However, if I'm understanding what I read, that is no longer the case. They  have done a complete turnaround, so that anyone can patent anything, including the very building blocks of life as we know it, our own friggin genes! While the feds may eventually get their collective heads out of their asses, I honestly don't look for anything to change unless a drug company requests it for their own benefit, when they can in turn stuff more money into the pockets of our corporate-whores (politicians). But I do see a few beacons of hope on the horizon in addition to Ron Paul and Gary Johnson (for whom I have tremendous respect). We need to look to the states and localities which have found an effective work-around for these racist and irrational drug laws. Seattle, for example, while taking steps to decriminalize possession and use of this remarkable little plant, recognized that despite their efforts to implement sensible reforms, local residents and businesses would still run the risk of having everything they own confiscated by the goddamn DEA, which routinely violates the states rights to govern themselves as well as the US Constitution, by using taxpayer funded state and local resources, law enforcement officers and courts to do their dirty work. We need more fearless state and local leadership like the mayor of Seattle, Mike McGinn, who effectively told the federal government to go fuck itself. With the support of the DA, who acknowledges that the judicial system is shamefully stacked against minorities, who comprise roughly 75% or more of all drug arrests, despite being among less than 8% of the largely white population that is known to use illegal drugs at a significantly higher rate. Seattle's answer to the governments poorly disguised racist agenda, which amounts to a legal form of slavery garnered from those convicted of minor possession offenses who are serving horribly long and exorbitantly disproportionate sentences in our privatized, for-profit penal system. Seattle's response to the prejudicial federal drug policies, was to 'Just say No' to their blatant bullshit by refusing to arrest or prosecute ANYONE for possession of cannabis. Brilliant! Hats off to McGinn and every elected official who chooses to represent the interests of their constituents rather than the corporations hoping to add another political figure to their payroll. If every state and municipality had leaders willing to follow this example, I dare say the prohibition of cannabis would be a thing of the past at long last. So our job is as simple as this: stop electing idiots to political office first of all, and secondly (since that first part isn't as easy as it sounds, lol), to be a source of consistent influence upon our local elected officials, and stand united in our opposition to any policy that impinges upon an individual's constitutional rights. I believe we have grown disillusioned with our government and the two-tiered Department of Injustice, that has managed to immobilize the masses through cleverly constructed propaganda campaigns that have left us feeling powerless to change it. We are resigned to accept things the way they are rather than risk the repercussions sure to follow if we resist. But that dog doesn't hunt, and it never did. Remember Burke's warning... The only thing needed for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. Though I applaud the Wall Street protesters for their honorable intentions and  admirable convictions, I believe our present situation is dire enough to warrant something more deliberate than the mere occupation of the nations financial districts. We shouldn't waste time trying to battle big business for a little space in which to conduct our peaceful protests. It's time to take back, forcibly if necessary, what was truly ours to begin with and regain ownership of this fucking country while there is still a country worth owning. Don't buy into the fear-mongering that has effectively manipulated us into relinquishing our rights and liberties. I'd rather surrender my passport and citizenship than see my son grow up to be subjugated under an oppressive police state. Standing up against a corrupt and tyrannical government is the ultimate act of patriotism. I'm just glad to know I won't be standing there alone! Keep fighting the good fight!

• Obama has made it very clear he has no intention of leglizing marijuana

• Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but in the wrong hands can be very destructive . 

• No they don't, they own the patent on cannabinoids, not cannabis. It is much different to hold a patent on opium than to hold a patent on papaver somniforum, do you understand?  You should have realized, since I was talking about Monsanto and Bayer, that the patents I referred to were future genetically modified organism patents, and not any patents on natural cannabis genetics. The patents that Monsanto holds on agricultural crop seeds are all genetically modified and completely different from the normal plant seeds. In order to patent a naturally occurring plant like cannabis or corn, a corporation like Monsanto has to modify the genetics of the plant so that they are different from and unique to the natural form of the plant. Natural corn seeds don't produce corn plants that will yield non-germinating seeds, or plants that are resistant to glyphosphate (Roundup). But I am glad you are aware of the patent on cannabinoids that the federal government holds and forces a media blackout on. Information like that patent could lead people to discontinue their blind trust in what the government tells them about cannabis, as it is in direct contradiction to their excuses for keeping marijuana federally illegal and barred from medical research.

• The government owns the patent on Marijuana: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6630507.PN.&OS=PN/6630507&RS=PN/6630507 

• Yea, but no one will buy big-pharma marijuana.  Right now, no one wants the dispensary weed because it's mass-produced, no on will want big-pharma weed because it will be even more mass produced.  Small batch, mountain grown, true mom and pop opps will always prevail because they produce the dankness!

• This is just to take medical pot away from the mom & pop dispensaries and give it to Big Pharma.  They're not going to legalize, just drop it to schedule 2 like methadone.  

• I never thought about it liek that before dude. Wow. privacy-tips.tk

• it isn't exactly true that Obama has done "nothing" he promised http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/ 156 kept 176 in the works 50 compromised 65 stalled and 56 broke. for a politician that's not to bad of a score.

• i was saying the same thing before bush's second election. and look where that got us. 7.8% unemployment (December 08) and shooting up fast. considering the republican alternatives put forward so far. I really don't see any sane choice but Obama.

• if you mean the NDAA, he's signed statement clearly said the law it not applicable to citizens.

• if anything, that's a cautionary tail about electing a right-wing government, specially when influenced by a religious faction. we'll see how fast they undo that damage once crime rates go up.

• obama has proven every step of the away he opposes anything related to marijuana, despite his willingness to lie about the subject during a campaign. his time in office speaks a hell of a lot louder than some baseless pipedreams anyone who votes for obama expecting him to support legalization, reclassification, or ending the raids of medical facilities is clueless

•  You are delusional if you think either of these political parties has voters or citizens interests in their minds. Both of these parties might as well be wholly owned subsidiaries of the most massive multinational corporations in the world, because they do their bidding as if the corporations voted them in, and not us. The founding fathers did not intend for this nation to be one with only two parties, because they knew what the result would be with only two parties. By the way, Ron Paul is a crazy person. He will say one thing that seems brilliant, then the next thing from his mouth is so absurd that you immediately forget the brilliant point he just made. This shouldn't be a news flash to you, but what we have here is hegemony, meaning that no matter who or what party becomes president or elected to congress, there are bottom lines that will be met, regardless of a D or R next to a presidents name. This is why Gitmo is still open, and it is why cannabis is still illegal. There are certain things that will not change in this country, which should tell you just how real this "democracy" is. If you had any sense in you, you would dump both parties and refuse to participate in their games. And don't give me some crap about throwing my vote away, because the reality is that my vote does not count, never has and never will. So why the heck should I care if not voting allows Obama to be defeated or a republican to win when they will both hold the same bottom lines? As far as I am concerned, this nation will never turn around, we will keep losing our civil liberties until we crash and burn. The only hope I see is that this nation rises from its ashes like a phoenix, to become far better than anything we were before. Until we collapse and rebuild everything from the ground up, it would be foolish to have any optimism for the progress of American citizens. This is a conclusion that has evolved in me over the years of studying history, environmental science, and geopolitics. I have written countless essays on the topic and have reached these conclusions through the inevitable deductive reasoning that comes with studying those topics. I am also not the only one to reach those conclusions, as the tellus institute and their subsidiary group, the global scenario group have similar visions of the future.

• It doesn't really matter, since the people at Bilderberg already chose Obama for a second term. 

•  Until Monsanto and Bayer get cannabis patented and have the DEA come knock on your door, not for growing cannabis, but for growing cannabis patented and owned by some giant and wealthy corporation. Just like how monsanto sues poor 3rd world farmers for the pollen from patented GMO corn that contaminates their crops, which they had nothing to do with. True stories here. Some of the farmers have committed suicide because of it.

• The party was outlawed, in a sense. Democrats and Republicans write all the laws, so they write election laws that make it impossible for Libertarians. There are some states that won't even allow you on the ballot, and Debates? Forget about it. Debates. Controlled by Dems and Republicans, thats how they outlawed Libertarianism. Thats why Ron Paul vehemently denies questions about a 3rd party run. 

• lol how so? He goes where the money goes like everybody else, and he hates the constitution. Ron Paul 2012, register republican and join the fight. 

• Obama? I don't think so. Remember his "promise" not to let the feds interfere with state laws concerning marijuana? He's just another worthless puppet. Ron Paul? Perhaps. He seems to be a genuinely different kind of politician. But what about a LIBERTARIAN? I haven't even heard the word libertarian used by another person for two years. Doesn't anyone even know we exist? Or was the party outlawed? WTF is going on? Anyway, I say @#$% the democrats and republicans. They've had their chances, and they only make bigger messes of everything. We need to be liberated, and our government needs to get much, much smaller. I mean, we're essentially slaves to this machine, and it has to stop. Lets elect a libertarian, and maybe then we can get some positive changes in the US and around the world. Maybe.

• Ganja should be getting Benefit Awards and not even on The Fed Sched.  Big Pharma has their Ganja concoctions at Sched 3.  Sched 2 puts it in the same category as much more dangerous Meth/Ice, ridiculous, and into the hands of Big Pharma-a natural plant-an outrageous move against local economies and people for profits of the cartels and prisons, including the Fed Govt/Big Pharma Cartel.  Prohibition provides heavy imposed damage for this attempt at big profits denial of truth-including 50,000 killed in Mexico and 800,000 Americans a year jailed for non-violent small amount possession, with no impact on use overall at all.  Beyond stupid stupid. As for President, Garyjohnson2012.com  and fairtax.org offer re-legalized (as it was under G Washington to Abe Lincoln, etc) Ganja with freedom for all non-violent users and "felons".   Gary has a better record than Obama, R Paul, or any other candidate with fresh ideas proven to work, and is not another big money bought off such as the repub/demo status quo current Fed Govt employees of big money.   End the Corporate Police State waste bought out Fed Govt by voting for Gary and put people first to live free again instead!  2012 is a year to break the failed 2 party status quo that puts big money first, not people. Bring back the Constitution For People First, not for the biggest money first-a failed idea getting worse with both repubs and demos. Stop Congress lobbyist buy-outs!  Vote for Gary and yourself this time-unless you like the current brutal failed status quo, a choice of bad or worse, and the "TRICKle down" that goes into offshore accounts and cartels-not America or Americans. Your Choice!  Bad, Worse, or Much Better with GARY JOHNSON and a great proven record and a positive not business as usual future. Oh, and yes, Gary will listen to YOU first-NOT the biggest money! 

• Santorum apparently would be a decent marijuana candidate and he's winning in Iowa right now!

• First waves showing tie between Mit and Ron!

• According to the IRS, in 2009 the top 1% paid 36.7% of all income taxes collected.  

• I support the right of workers to organize to demand better wages and working conditions, but you make a good point about Democrats' complicity in waging war on the American people -- union members may have some mixed feelings about our fascist drug laws, but many of their jobs do in fact depend on Prohibition.  As for private prisons, urine testers, and the other corporate dregs who profit from Prohibition, their interest in maintaining Prohibition is absolute; no one can credit the Republican Party with being any less retrograde than the Democratic Party!  The former has done more damage to the United States and her interests than the Bolsheviks ever dreamed of doing themselves, and the latter works tirelessly to enable their opponents -- leave these criminal organizations now (or register to vote for the first time) at:  https://www.sos.state.co.us/Voter/secuRegVoterIntro.do

• Colorado is a circus of pot clowns

• No Democrat will ever stop the war on drugs or marijuana. It's about the unions and political power. Unions are part of the Democratic Party machine. The prison unions, police unions, federal law enforcement unions: including DEA, Homeland Security, ATF, FBI, etc. Public employee unions were illegal, at the Federal level, until President Kennedy signed a presidential order. Our tax dollars provide their wages, union dues are are deducted, the union funnels the $$$$ to the Democratic Party.

• You got my vote.

• Cannabis, legal for all of its uses is the best hope for America's economy, maybe the only hope at this point. Ron Paul and returning to a constitutional nation is the only hope of that coming to pass. If you have anything to do with Cannabis and do not vote for and support Ron Paul and Liberty, you get what you deserve.   PROHIBIT GMO Cannabis, treat the natural stuff like beer, or medicine, or food, or fuel, or fiber, or building materials, or even carbon sinks if you're so inclined.

• Good point, I may have been exaggerating. My real point was the black market, including marijuana, is a big part of the American economy and needs to stay in balance. Many federal agencies, local businesses and criminals, if there is a difference, all stand to loose if legalization was to win political ground. I'm all for legalization but I don't think we'll see it. Maybe some sort of middle ground where everyone can still get arrested for good weed but pharmaceutical companies can make crappy chemical rinses of cannabis too. I don't think the government will give up anything, just add more.

• Brian Vicente is a sell-out. No one takes him seriously.

• Cannabis, legal for all of its uses is the best hope for America's economy, maybe the only hope at this point. Ron Paul and returning to a constitutional nation is the only hope of that coming to pass. If you have anything to do with Cannabis and do not vote for and support Ron Paul and Liberty, you get what you deserve.   PROHIBIT GMO Cannabis, treat the natural stuff like beer, or medicine, or food, or fuel, or fiber, or building materials, or even carbon sinks if you're so inclined.

• -- an unpleasant subject, and I do not consider any Republican a possible choice, but I suspect that Romney will win the nomination.  If I were forced to choose one of the extant Republican candidates, it would be Ron Paul.

• I hope I live to see it....

• "Making cannabis legal would hurt the economy" Sorry, but you are crazy if you believe this!  Taking hundreds of billions of dollars away from criminals and drug cartels and instead redirecting that money into our communities for public services and job creation would HURT the economy?  Yes the law enforcement agencies, the for-profit prison industry, judges and lawyers, and the professional criminals would definitely lose SOME of their funding and some jobs, but for every dollar (and job) lost to them we would gain far more money (and jobs) in our communities.

• We need to find a way to get it into the water then.

• Cannabis will drive those nuts who don't know the use of it and criticize the sacred herb.

• Petition? More like a plea for mercy, and don't shoot the messenger. Did we actually pay someone to write that? If so, how much? In a State that's supposed to be on the cutting edge of MMJ, there sure is a lot of adversarial BS going on.

• Intriguing post, Joey -- one we're going to make an upcoming Comment of the Day. Congrats.

• AND OBVIOUSLY NO PRESIDENT CAN MAKE MARIJUANA LEGAL OR CHANGE LAWS ALONE, HENCE THE PROBLEMS WITH THE ECONOMY AND PASSING BILLS!!! BUT ITS A NICE WAY TO GENERATE VOTES... DON'T BELIEVE THE BED TIME STORY'S, DO THE RESEARCH YOURSELF AND PICK THE LESSER EVIL!!! DON'T LET POT BE YOUR GUIDE!!! I DONT KNOW BOUT THE REST OF YOU  BUT IT JUST GUIDES ME TO JACK IN THE BOX AND DISK GOLF!!!

• Ron Paul is the only one whom has the willpower to make a difference, Obama has been terrible and has just made the country worse than it is, all other possible candidates are just Corporate lackeys whom will just make things worse until they break completely 

• Nader rises again? Thanks for the post, Lance.

• Strong take, Monkey. Thanks for weighing in.

• So you support Mitt Romney? If Romney wins Iowa tonight, then that's who we will have to choose from Romney or Obama. Romney is the only candiate with enough money and knowledge to take on Obama.

• The government makes too much money on marijuana remaining illegal, too many employed over the war on weed means there are too many people against legalization. Lawyers like Vicente also need cannabis illegal so they can keep telling us their "insight" and charge clients billable hours. If it was legal he and others like him would not have the same "job-security". Making cannabis legal would hurt the economy, everyone makes money because it's illegal, from lawyers to probation officers to drug screening labs to police to drug dealers, the list goes on and on. Talking about legalization even generates money but actual legalization would not. All the sales tax and regulation fees would not make up for the real money people make and spend illegally. Obviously I'm a Ron Paul vote, no IRS, ATF or DEA, sounds good to me, but I think that sort of logical thinking will scare too many people away. The governments job has been to keep you scared and reliant on them, a great way to do that is to criminalize a plant everyone can get their hands on, you now have to pled with them to legalize it, trust that they know best, use it in fear or profit from it and risk imprisonment, either way they are controlling you.

• If you stoners want WEED LEGALIZED NATIONALLY VOTE FOR RON PAUL!!! He has been for PERSONAL FREEDOM ( Choose to do what you want without big brother government forcing us to do or say otherwise) Sense he started in congress 30 years ago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92OV3RbU3ek .. I think we all know not to trust that Fing POS OBAMA.. FUCK YOU ASSHOLE!!! for Signing our freedoms away with the NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT!! GOOGLE IT!! He is a traitor and has BROKEN OATH OF OFFICE!! Hang his ass!!! Funny how he says he doesn't agree with the bill but signed it anyway LOL Fing POS SCUMBAG and I thought Bush and Nixon were awful shit..

• p.s..... GO BRONCO'S AFC WEST CHAMPS BABY WHOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOO!!!

• Well...shit, I was ready to vote for Ron until now. I guess I'll just throw away my vote on Nader again.

• the only thing Obama is good for is bed time story's... fictions that we all WANT to believe... he was a popular vote for American's who were sick of the bullshit that the republicans fed us to boost their bottom line!!! i have no interest in voting someone into office that is going to keep the super rich tax free and cut all the programs that keep the less fortunate from being homeless, starving, and without medical treatment and retirement!!! I am verry passionate about  reformation of marijuana laws but what weighs more, being able to enjoy pot openly, or keeping millions from being bums without hope!?! don't be selfish or dope fiends!!! thats what we ALL say we ARE NOT!!!

• Robert, as commenter of the year, what are your predictions for final choices for Republican candidate for 2012?

• I tried to explain this:  Obama came into office with " taking the feds out of the equation" with the marijuana dispensaries in compliant states that have already passed marijuana laws.  Just 3 months ago, he claims he is now going to crack down on every dispensary and grow operation, no matter if the states have legalized or not, because federal law trumps state law - BULLSH*T!  The federal government is very limited in it's power by the constitution.  Making ANYTHING illegal is not for the government to decide.  These decisions are left to the states, where the peoples' voice is better understood.  If the majority of the people in a state say they want it legal, then it should be so, and the government should have NO say in the matter.  Here is a good article to slip under the door of the people who still believe Obama is pro- medical marijuana:  http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/10/20/obamas-assault-on-medical-marijuana-laws/

• Obama is not gunna help us AT ALL!!!... I'm a fan of Obama... but it is undeniably clear that he did NOTHING he promised, he sits in the middle of the fence and does not have the nuts to lead our country, however if the republicans get a hold of us again... we are financially screwd!!!!!! i would rather go a few more years with pot staying the way it is than to watch our country go down the shitter!!!! F$%K the upper 1%... the rest of us ARE America... feed the poor the rich!!!!

• This author lives in fantasy land.  If Obama is going to reschedule cannabis, that means he's going to create a new, more restrictive, schedule in the CSA.  Call it Schedule 0 (for substances that are so heinous and evil that they are worse than all others).  Obama has zero interest in loosening our destructive drug laws or scaling down the War on Drugs, especially concerning cannabis.

• Many people who use cannabis will once again succumb to the argument that Republican candidates are worse (absent any case that Democrats support ending Prohibition).  The real test of the Administration's political calculations about Colorado will come if and when John Walsh bullies most dispensaries into closing, but not even that may be enough to galvanize most patients into becoming politically aware and involved.

• And if all we can hope for is 4 more years of Obama and then cannabis getting rescheduled, I'll stick with growing my own and blowing smoke up the arses of these pot clowns.

• It's going to be a very exciting year for cannabis politics indeed.  Candidates will be asked their stance on marijuana and will be held to what they say more so than ever.  As far as if Obama or Ron Paul wins things getting better, yea of course, and Willie Nelson would make a great cannabis president too.  It's too early to be making these kind of proclamations, especially since Mitt Romney has a huge chance of winning tonight in Iowa.  Go Ron Paul, but I wouldn't count on anything Brian Vicente is hoping for.

• Read up on what is going on in Amsterdamn it isn't like it was ten years ago..... http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/05/amsterdam-ban-pot-sales-tourists/38248/

• As a conservative I'm getting concerned. This issue is quickly becoming our "illegal immigration" so to speak. We need to pull our heads out of the sand before we lose future generations for good. This is a common sense issue, its as basic as two plus two, all the polls show support for legal cannabis rising at a staggering rate. We need to let go of the old wives tales, let go of the nonsensical horror stories. All the science points in the same direction, all the polls point in the same direction, not to mention basic common sense points in the same direction. We have 5% of the worlds population and we house 25% of the worlds prison population, that costs money, that is insane. As conservatives its important that we make it clear to younger generations. We are the party of common sense. We are the party of freedom and personal responsibility. There is absolutely no reason to laugh in the face of science, while holding on to bankrupting, backward policy's for the sake of nostalgia. Its time to let go of the past, we were wrong, period. The war on drugs has destroyed millions of lives, we've wasted over a trillion dollars. This is supposed to be the land of the free, not the land of the incarcerated. We have allowed our government to rob us of our 4th amendment rights, all for what? A plant? Are you kidding me? Stand up for freedom before there's none left to fight for. Freedom and personal responsibility, live it, breath it, preach it. Vote for Ron Paul

• I hope this doesn't make y'all vote for Obama, again. Didn't learn the first time..

• I realize that Brian is an attorney and wears a suit, but how did his pronouncements come to be invested with such unquestioning trust?  "Vicente feels that "a second-term Obama presidency would give us a pretty strong chance of seeing marijuana rescheduled."" -- WHY does he "feel" that?  Could he have adduced any facts in support of his feeling?  Why do you content yourself with reporting Brian Vicente's feelings, instead of pursuing the answers to these questions?

• Don't count on Obama....after all, he just signed away the right to free speech in this country and now they're just going to take people away permanently if you speak out against them in any way....We are FACISTS......NOT A DEMOCRACY!!!!

• if you call a bullshit interoffice memo a formal petition LOL they didnt do jack squat! believe you me my case will make them PROPERLY AND FORMALLY AND SUCCESSFULLY petition if they want to settle it!

• Obama said he would investigate the issue before his presidency and dodged the issue ever since election. Even if it was a gauranteed win for rescheduling, I wouldnt vote for him again. Ron Paul on the other hand its pretty much a given. On national TV he flat out said it should be up to the people what they put into their bodies wether its considered harmful by some or not.

• No understanding of politics obviously. The only way Obama will have anything to do with us being granted any Liberty at all is if Ron Paul wins the GOP ticket. Without Ron Paul in the 2012 presidential debate Obama has no reason to change the current trajectory of his anti-Marijuana justice department and white house. 

• Some of us have been waiting a long time for the government to open their eyes and see the value of rescheduling marijuana.  I honestly think that if the federal government would legalize marijuana and tax it like they do alcohol and tabbacco products some of our debt problems would be solved. As shown in Amsterdam and other areas that have taken the leap, they have not seen a dramatic increase in use but rather a decrease due to the regulation and control of it. But have also had more funds due to the taxes being paid on it for other services that the government feels they need to address.

• "I think our letter was a little more perfunctory and could have been more persuasively written." My vote for understatement of the year...

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