Comments on: Holder: Feds Will Decide on State Marijuana Legalization “Soon”

By: GlenJo

GlenJo — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:30:21 +0000

Americans: Gee, can we just treat the legalization of marijuana like we we treated the big banksters that broke the law and crashed the world economy?

DOJ: Well, no, we gave the banksters trillions of dollars and we’re sure not going to do that!

Americans: How about just treating them like laws passed by the people in a popular vote?

DOJ: Well, that would be actually listening to Americans rather than just the rich that fuck up the whole world, we’re not sure that’s what America is about anymore…

By: washunate

washunate — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:46:59 +0000

The administration can choose anything from an aggressive crackdown, selective harassment of only larger business, basically leaving the states alone, or even unilaterally “downscheduling” marijuana under federal law.

I wish more Democrats would call out the lying from the Administration on this. The drug war is explicitly one that Congress puts in the hand of the President because it’s obvious that Congress has no Constitutional authority to criminalize private consensual behavior.

But I wish you would say it in more plain language. I don’t know why you add qualifiers like ‘even unilaterally’ that make it sound like changing the schedule of a drug is some radical or rare act. Rather, it’s exactly what Congress has instructed the Executive branch to do.

By: adam in oregon

adam in oregon — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:16:40 +0000

Sounds like he is going to use the ol’ international treaty nonsense to keep busting people. Since when did America care about treaties it has signed? Geneva conventions anyone? He’ll come out and say, we would really, really like to let you smoke weed, but we can’t because the UN would get mad at us. So sorry. Maybe if the world says you can, then we’ll think about it. Get ready for the excuses.

By: RodL2

RodL2 — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:31:55 +0000

Don’t hold your breath anybody. This administration is under the control of big pharma and the booze industry. If medical marijuana is legalized, then what’s next? Hemp? Big cotton, lumber, and DuPont will say no that.

By: rapier51

rapier51 — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:50:57 +0000

Holder is holding for the duration. The perfect intermediary between the permanent government establishment and the administration. He served his apprenticeship in the white shoes Beltway firms doing exactly the same thing and there is no better place to do it than where he is now.

By: Thad Stevens

Thad Stevens — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:26:20 +0000

Only one question around this story: everyone else from the first Obama Administration is leaving or has left; when is Holder out?

By: norecovery

norecovery — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:23:55 +0000

It’s long overdue for this ridiculous drug war to be eased for cannabis. And don’t forget to make a recommendation that Congress legalize AND subsidize hemp cultivation for the wide range of useful products including biofuel.

By: medicinecat

medicinecat — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:05:20 +0000

Like “health care”, you will only be allowed to have marijuana if you buy it from a big corporate cartel, staffed by Obama’s friends.

By: PK

PK — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:49:46 +0000

There is a lot of anecdotal evidence that medical marijuana can be therapeutic. Marijuana should be reclassified so that people can do rigorous research on its medical applications. Unilateral rescheduling is the way to go, AG Holder!

By: skoop

skoop — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:22:34 +0000

FDL needs to hire a new writer or I suppose it may have been just a bad day. There’s a lot of grammatical errors in this post.