Comments on: White House Issues Truly Pathetic Non-Response to Petition About State Marijuana Legalization Laws

By: onitgoes

onitgoes — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:39:06 +0000

I didn’t read the article you mention, but geez! Pot rehab programs? Ya gotta be kidding me! That would be a monumental WASTE of OUR tax dollars and no doubt meant solely to *stigmatize* the users. Oh my aching back. We desparately NEED so many other things, and all these losers focus on is bullshit hype to distract the rubes from how much we’re be ripped off by the MIC & various sorts of WAR, Inc.

And yeah: agreed that I can mos def see Obama going after recreational pot smokers in CO & WA. It was my FIRST thought as soon as I heard that those initiatives had passed. Caveat Emptor, for sure.

By: onitgoes

onitgoes — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:35:33 +0000

Agreed.

If citizens wish to engage in signing petitions and/or sending letters to their congresscreeps or the nooz paper: fine. Go for it. If it makes you feel better, then do it.

I used to do those things a A LOT back in the day, and I feel that there was a time when letters, phone calls, petitions actually did have some effect on decisions in Wash DC or at the State level, etc. Not much, but some.

These days? Don’t make me laugh.

Money TALKS, everyone else walks…

By: ADC14

ADC14 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:51:11 +0000

I don’t understand why people continue to bother with petitions and the like. It should be patently clear by now, the only things government is responsive to is money and civil unrest. All the rest is wishful thinking.

By: drack37

drack37 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:21:47 +0000

Obama won’t be running again but the Dimocraps will be—and Obama is no one to leave his puerile party hanging in the breeze come next election as “the party that stoned America” (or some such garbage). That’s also why he isn’t going to do anything else, either, that might trouble Dubuque about, say, our psychotic militarism, or our shameful health care, or our disgraceful disregard for American ecology and its future.

By: bigchin

bigchin — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:02:09 +0000

@Jon73

“He’s a dangerous, unprincipled liar and fraud.”

What.You.Said!

By: Jon73

Jon73 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:17:07 +0000

It’s pretty clear where this is headed if you read the Pat Kennedy story over the weekend: a big, fat NO on legalization, but let’s put marijuana smokers into a mandatory drug treatment program; that looks caring and compassionate, sort of, but allows the ridiculous drug war to continue. And I wouldn’t put it past the Obama administration to target “recreational drug users” in Colorado and Washington any more than I think a steamroller wouldn’t flatten me if I stood in its path. This is the guy who promised greater governmental transparency, after all. And campaigned in favor of a public health insurance option (and against the individual mandate). And granted himself the authority to assassinate U.S. citizens without due process. And who’s not just open to, but enthusiastic about, cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. He’s a dangerous, unprincipled liar and fraud.

By: bamage

bamage — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:45:03 +0000

I created my own petition in response. If a couple readers would sign on, and forward it so I can get a few sigs, it’d be pretty awesome.
Here’s the url
http://wh.gov/PU5T

and the Headline…
we petition the obama administration to:

furnish a substantive, responsive, (as opposed to a regurgitation of previous talking points) ANSWER to any petition.

By: onitgoes

onitgoes — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:30:27 +0000

IMO none of those petitions are worth it. I don’t bother anymore bc frankly I don’t have one glimmer of a “hope” that some pol will pay any attention to such polls.

A well-meaning friend really wanted me to sign whatever petition is there to better regulate guns bc she actually thinks that Obama is “concerned” about it and wants to “do the right thing.” Well good luck with that! I didn’t sign the petition, even though I agree with it.

Too cynical. My days of letters to congresscons & petitions are mostly over, sad to say. Don’t see it as worthwhile.

By: onitgoes

onitgoes — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:28:29 +0000

I remember that MAD magazine satire!

Yes, I do believe you are right about that, and I agree with Mary that BigTobacco will step up to the plate to take over sales of pot. They are better placed to do it that BigPharma. However, I do think BigPharma is working the means to get a piece of the pie vis the medicinal aspects of pot.

JMHO, of course.

By: nycterrierist

nycterrierist — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:07:24 +0000

To add insult to injury, that White House petition site is a pain in the *ss
to use (by design?). What a waste of time.