The President Has a Growing Marijuana Problem

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8. Legalizing Marijuana in and of itself is not pressing to be sure, but that's not really the point.

What is really the point is the fact that we have more people in prison in the land of the free because of this. Our 4th amendment rights have been shot all to shit by this. There are all sorts of horror stories about people getting killed in no knock raids along with family pets. Assets are being wrongfully seized. Police are showing up at the wrong house and busting the place up. Cops look more like soldiers than police officers. The so called war on drugs is really a civil war being waged on American citizens. I agree that it's not a problem for Obama in 2012, but he gets an F in drug policy. So has every president since Nixon, who started this mess. Obama has a good list of accomplishments. I'll vote for him again, and I'm confident that he will win a second term. I just wish we had someone in power that could step back and look at the big picture here. We have private companies running prisons for profit in the land of the free. This is a lot more serious than just being able to go down to the corner store and buy a sack of legal weed.