Obama ignores marijuana question at YouTube event

[RainDog]

26. all of those issues relate to this one

money that is wasted in the WoD could be used in other ways. Hemp as a biomass is important - it's the fastest growing biomass available and hemp seed has the best nutritional profile for efas, etc - it's a great food source for poor people and nations. End the WoD and end the violence in Mexico related to the same.

Economic fairness - well, putting people in jail - arresting more than 700,000 people a year - wasting time and money that could be spent on real criminals, like, oh, I dunno, on Wall Street, or just plain old murderers would be a better use of law enforcement.

this issue is not simply about prohibition in the way that alcohol was prohibited. However, ending prohibition was a HUGE boon to the economy when FDR launched the end of prohibition in the first weeks of his term in office. All sorts of people were put to work in a newly available economic niche.

I really don't believe that Obama is unable to do more than one thing at a time. This is just an issue that politicians, for the most part, don't want to address b/c politicians, for the most part, are reactionaries rather than leaders.