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i want to say that if there is harmful effect on the human being by using marijuana then government should take some strict action for band this type of things....ya raids are one of the crucial step towards this....so,,,just try to make decisions team in this topic for discussion and then find out its solution that is it good for use in medical purpose or not.....

What Needs of Their's Aren't Being Met? Public Safety and Employer/Employee Relations?

I watched a video on Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and reading into what he said perhaps, and imagining the emotional emphasis he may have placed on the phrase "it's against Federal Law," i wonder if we can interpret this to mean they have needs that aren't being met, and can't or don't want to change them until they are...

Perhaps needs around Public Safety and Employer/Employee relations...?

I have thought this is simply a case of demanding they return to us a right that belongs in the Commons, which was stolen under false pretense.

It was business interests that initially lobbied the government to make it illegal, and those same industries are still the top ones lobbying for it remain illegal.

I see there's another dimension now, perhaps, if I'm right about them not feeling their needs are met.

Anyone?

Thanks,

Unfortunately, since I live in a two-party state, i'll still have to vote for him lest I want a Republican president which is worse.

I can't wait for the day when the baby boomers and generation X has passed on so that the politicians they support will stop vehemently shooting down Marijuana reform laws.

There's always another option.

Vote for Ron Paul, he wants to end the War on Drugs.

As long as the mega-banks are raking in the billions laundering drug money, there will be a war on drugs. Keeping classes of drugs illegal raises the profits available to cartels, and banks, and also feeds the ever expanding prison industry with government (our) cash by housing an ever growing population of mostly non-violent drug users.

What a racket! They profit when they supply, you buy, and when you're busted!

If that’s true, you can help end the racket by not being a stoner.

President Obama misled many voters sympathetic to medical marijuana use in 2008, while Michigan became the 13th State to approve medical marijuana based on a People's Initiative that same election; and today there are 17 States with Medical Marijuana approval. As more and more people realize the error of the Schedule 1 drug classification of marijuana, more and more people feel betrayed by Obama, who used plenty of marijuana himself and knows the comfort and relief it can bring to a body. The money that controls Obama is dirty, coming from sources with an agenda that has been harming Americans who believe in planting a seed, and Americans who believe the fruit of that seed has healing properties to remedy their ailments. And what about religious use of marijuana? Because of the feelings produced under the influence of marijuana, many users claim a spiritual enlightening, or experience that compels one to praise and worship GOD for creating the plant. How can any American deny that the Constitution intended to permit and protect such a private relationship with one's GOD? But Obama, and a bunch of self-appointed Big Brothers in a position to profit from marijuana prohibition, dirty money, have sacrificed many good Americans and their families to the private prison systems, to fines and forfeitures, and to slave labor community service time, for smoking a joint, like Obama. His feeble claim about Federal law could be easily ignored by his Administration like he ignored the Constitution that requires only Congress to declare war; or he could lead the change of the Schedule 1 classification of marijuana to meet the needs of the people. How will History judge the first black President who promoted provenly failed drug policies that imprisoned blacks in higher proportions than other groups using marijuana to create a slave class of criminal for his prison industry friends? Nature and the people will surely give him a thumbs down.

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I'm curious if this is a good, bad or indifferent thing in your eyes, and also just what impact you feel it has on his drugs policy. Care to elaborate?