Maybe all of this is O posturing as The Dad rather than The President. He must see the writing on the wall, and I just don’t understand the foot dragging. Also, maybe he just does not want to push the river, politically. I can’t imagine anything else. I am not making excuses, just throwing it out there.

President Obama has a habit of lying to try to shift responsibility on to Congress.

This really doesn’t need any specific context. It’s Obama admin SOP.

there are many political and regulator reasons why it would be better for Congress to adopted a new law tailored to address the issue

This strikes me as a red herring and the sort of concession we need to stop making. What reasons? “Better” in what sense? It’s surprising to see such an easy out given at the conclusion of an article about Obama’s disingenuity on the subject. He could easily tweak his message from “congress needs to change the law” to “there are many reasons why it’s better if congress changes the law” and use either as an excuse to maintain the status quo.

I head up the executive branch; we’re supposed to be carrying out laws.

lol

Interesting that he would feel the need to be dishonest on this to…set an example for his daughters…or something…but doesn’t feel the need to quit smoking or, you know, stop having meetings where he and his buddies decide who is to be executed by drone? Or instruct his DoJ to enforce the law?

I don’t know, maybe the man lies to himself that much too.

Agreed, I don’t understand why people pull punches on this issue. Obama supports the drug war, plain and simple; he even highlighted Biden’s stance on it when selecting him for VP. It’s embarrassing and morally indefensible, period.

Which is why the Attorney General has ridden herd on banksters and war criminals, right?

The only positive thing about Biden being vice president is that he isn’t Evan Bayh.

When weed is legal, big Pharma will see their painkillers tank big time. Obama is still in thrall to the drug industry.

We’ll see his true colors shining through.

Is he man enough , progressive enough , caring enough ?

Look at all the outrage from TBogg over this issue… no, wait…

Leahy is scheduling hearings to address the legalization in Colorado and Washington. In his letter he specifically mentioned rescheduling as a possible option.
What Obama doesn’t get is the number of young people who get busted, thrown in prison, and get raped. He didn’t get caught when he was a Choom Gang Toker. He got to become President, and like the self centered politician he is, that’s all that matters to him. This law has ruined more millions of people than the marijuana ever has.

It’s a lie, but at least an improvement on the rumors that the Feds would hamfistedly continue their “War on Drugs” in Colorado and Washington, despite the will of the people in those states.

(Wonder if this is an indication that the White House will curb the feds from acting like junior G-Men in the states where medical marijuana is legal?

They’ve been harassing, so far, in Cali.)

Have to wonder why anyone cares about what that idiot has to say about anything?

“Tbogg”, I meant.

Same as with getting rid of don’t ask dont tell and providing job security to gay federal employees. He could. have done it anytime after day 1. Same with debt limit. I know its hard to accept, but he really isn’t in to you pot heads.

I spoke too soon, as usual, Obama is dealing in weasel words:

Obama’s Pot Comments Leave Door Open For Crackdown

“remarks he made to ABC’s Barbara Walters on the topic left most of the biggest issues unresolved, leaving pro-legalization advocates concerned that the potential remains for a federal crackdown in Colorado and Washington, whose residents voted to end pot prohibition in November.

The biggest news is that Obama ruled out a widespread campaign against individual users. According to a report in the New York Times, the administration was at least considering bringing forward prosecutions against small-time smokers as a stern reminder that federal drug laws remain in full effect, so this provides some clarity in that regard.

…But the federal government doesn’t traditionally have the resources or mandate to go after minor drug offenses anyway, so it’s unclear how significant an olive branch Obama offered.

The bigger outstanding concern for legalization proponents is whether growers and distributors of pot who can now operate legally in Colorado and Washington will be targeted by federal law enforcement. There are also concerns that state officials tasked with regulating and taxing sales of the drug could face federal prosecution.”
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/12/obamas-pot-comments-leave-door-open-for-crackdown.php

Perhaps Colorado and Washington will have to sue the bastards:

Oakland Sues Federal Prosecutors Over Medical Marijuana Crackdown

“The city of Oakland became the first known jurisdiction yesterday to sue the federal government over its attempts to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries, escalating the local-federal battle over criminalization of the drug.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/10/11/993261/oakland-sues-federal-prosecutors-over-medical-marijuana-crackdown/

So did Walters point out this rescheduling power to the Mr. President? Did she ask him if he became addicted after smoking marijuana? Did she get into his marijuana use at all?

lol. Also Too, lol to saphirebulletsofpurelove at 4. Except maybe he thinks also his daughters are not likely to get their hands on some drones, too. Or something. And Michelle prolly has her foot on their smoking jackets, also.

Becuz tbogg is a pioneer in the cooties based political economy.

I remember an HBO special decades ago that mentioned that there is a line in the Constitution prohibiting congress from passing any laws restricting the public’s access to medicines. They had to circumvent that by giving that scheduling power to the Prez to circumvent that rule. They made the case that the whole thing was on constitutional thin ice but had never been challenged due to the successful propaganda campaign starting with “Reefer Madness”.

I’d swear they also said most of our anti-drug stuff was due to pressure from England, but I may be conflating some points there. (This was decades and many thousands of bong hits ago).

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the lesser E does the slimy and cynical ‘gosh golly I’m trying my hardest’ routine , again

so nice to have a slimy lair in office who actually thinks this about you…
‘these dumbassed pot smokers can’t possibly be informed enough to know how narcotics reclassification works, so I can just go ahead and lie…hee hee’

so he can take no action (as he wants) with the exception of targeting suppliers (as he has and surely will) so that sick people can’t get the medicine they need & thousands of people languish behind bars, mainly blacks and latinos -

wooo hooo – now that’s a lesser evil that you can believe in!

see – mLaw – regarding the Senate Judiciary written request for clarification from the drug-warrior-liar

see – verbatim at the demise – ‘total absorbtion’

‘these dumbassed pot smokers can’t possibly be informed enough to know how narcotics reclassification works

I grew up in suburban DC (Springfield VA). Every single one of the most intellectual and informed people in my drug laced high school was a pot smoker. I was too chicken to try it until I got out of HS, but the most of the people I hung out with were “heads” because they were the highest IQ’s in the schools. Needless to say, the class leaders were not, but they were basically suck-ups to the school administration and not even remotely original thinkers.

Edit: I wasn’t taking you seriously acmerecords, I was expanding on your remark.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the pond, we have, “’We’re losing the war on drugs’: Nick Clegg looks within himself and unexpectedly finds a spine”

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100194209/were-losing-the-war-on-drugs-nick-clegg-looks-within-himself-and-unexpectedly-finds-a-spine/

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I hear you JJ
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I don’t mind associating myself with the likes of T.Jefferson and the founding fathers, T.Pynchon (who called cannabis ‘the useful substance’), Byron, L.Carrol, Rimbaud, Coleridge, Ginsberg, Nietzshe, Keats, Beckett, Freud, Burroughs, H.Thompson, Hemmingway, Sagan… Willie Nelson, Roger Waters, Gene Krupa, Thelonius Monk, C.Basie, Ellington…VanGogh, W.Disney, Dali…Lord Ganesh -

There is another list of pot smokers – who decided to stop – that begins here… Obama, GW&LBush & B&HClinton

leading me to the thought of the American thinker named g.singlaub who once stated…”nothing worse than a dry doper”

MJisMD