The oil industry,,with bio-fuel produced from renewable hemp crops,,how would they keep their profits and assets secure if they couldn’t have fuel shortages and price control when they cannot control farmers but they can turn off oil wells? And they are a major part of the foundation of our economy.

And of course the pharmaceutical corporations,,if you are familiar with all the health issues cannabis can treat,,imagine the losses they will suffer from cannabis legalization.

The arms manufacturers,,imagine no wars over oil or the loss of control when any country can grow enough hemp to fuel their own transportation systems and energy production.

And all the other hemp products from lumber to plastic that our markets depend on selling other countries.

It is going to take a serious in their face situation to ever change and it may take more patriot’s blood to cleanse the roots of freedom.

It is time to get up from our chairs and march,,4/20/2013 falls on a Saturday so maximum participation can be expected. March on every state capitol and for any close enough or can afford the logistics,DC.
It would br helpful if FDL,NORML,ASA,DPA and any other reform organization would get behind this,but if they can’t get past the politics involved then they can sit and watch.

Executive action would be temporary, and I’m sure some mass murderer illegally smoked tobacco and pot, but you know the pot would be blamed for the mass murders.

Why do progressives so hate democracy and the Constitution that place the power in Congress?

And if “it will save the life of just one child”, we have to keep at it. That is now the standard for everything repressive freedomicious. It’s so easy to say now, it rolls off the tongue. If maintaining the absolute criminal contraband status of marijuana will save the life of just one child, (by a convoluted speculative path of reasoning by which we assume a pot smoker always graduates to mainlining smack or an iron lung full of vaporized crystal methamphetamine) then we must keep hammering away at the drug war no matter the collateral damages and the cost. If it would save the life of just one child, then we must continue with blanket surveillance and other violations of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution, forever. If it would save the life of just one child, then we must resign ourselves to the use of drone warfare against potentially subversive elements. And on it goes…

But! It is important to know who you’re really fighting and where the fulcrum is. Yes?

Both agencies fall under the president and the president appoints the heads of each. Our current president labors under a victim/savior model where he feels compelled to use the power his office to “save the children” from drugs. If I had lived in an state where the electoral outcome was more clear, Obama would have never gotten my vote.

I’m not a pot user and I don’t feel it is a very important issue by itself, but what is critically important is that adult U.S. citizens are being tossed in jail and getting criminal records over this and that those are mainly the poor and minorities. Interdiction also funds horrifying criminal gangs (many estimate 80% of the Mexican drug gang’s profits come from cannabis.) It is, frankly, frightening to me that you can be stopped and, based upon a claimed ‘odor,’ be treated as a criminal. This has to stop.

Please give the president a piece of your mind on this. Give him hell on it. Just google write the president. It’s completely within his power to make this stop.