DoobieBrother
Well-Known Member
Regardless of Ryan's personal position on it, he's just running for VP, and will have no power to affect policy.
It's his boss that will be against any positive change of the current marijuana laws.
All they have to do it give some lip service to it to get a few extra desperate votes, then ignore it if they get into office, or worse, start levying pressure against states who have medical marijuana laws already on the books (threatening to reduce federally funded programs for states who don't comply with federal laws about marijuana, such as highway funding, medical funding, school funding, whatever they want to use as leverage), and it'll be another 20 year battle to get things even back to where we are now.
Even Obama isn't doing anything really positive about it, and he's a so-called liberal.
I signed up for the online polling of things the U.S. public wanted addressed by the Obama administration, and legalization of cannabis (both medically and recreationally) was one of the most popular subjects.
(http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/09/22/petition-white-house-we-people)
So I added my name to the appropriate petitions and waited to see what they had to say about it all.
I got a form letter e-mail a few months later saying that they had taken into consideration the petition but.... then quoted word for word the old reefer madness schtick and how there was no evidence about any medicinal value, about how it was a dangerous narcotic, etc, and the laws would remain the same.
I don't, for the life of me, see a conservative mormon president doing anything different, and would worry that he would move to usurp state's rights regarding medical marijuana laws in any way he could.
Just my opinion though.
It's his boss that will be against any positive change of the current marijuana laws.
All they have to do it give some lip service to it to get a few extra desperate votes, then ignore it if they get into office, or worse, start levying pressure against states who have medical marijuana laws already on the books (threatening to reduce federally funded programs for states who don't comply with federal laws about marijuana, such as highway funding, medical funding, school funding, whatever they want to use as leverage), and it'll be another 20 year battle to get things even back to where we are now.
Even Obama isn't doing anything really positive about it, and he's a so-called liberal.
I signed up for the online polling of things the U.S. public wanted addressed by the Obama administration, and legalization of cannabis (both medically and recreationally) was one of the most popular subjects.
(http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/09/22/petition-white-house-we-people)
So I added my name to the appropriate petitions and waited to see what they had to say about it all.
I got a form letter e-mail a few months later saying that they had taken into consideration the petition but.... then quoted word for word the old reefer madness schtick and how there was no evidence about any medicinal value, about how it was a dangerous narcotic, etc, and the laws would remain the same.
I don't, for the life of me, see a conservative mormon president doing anything different, and would worry that he would move to usurp state's rights regarding medical marijuana laws in any way he could.
Just my opinion though.
And my last, my wife had a tubal today.
