Mr President, please don't consider re-scheduling marijuana and [View all]

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Please don't consider any other methods of legalizing the substance on the Federal Government level.

I lie awake at night worrying about the Big Pharmaceutical companies. How will they ever re-coup the costs of patenting of various cannibanoids? If the Federal Government allows medical marijuana or marijuana itself to be re-scheduled, or taken off the schedule completely, does this mean that many of the top executives at Big Pharma companies will go to bed hungry? Or heavens perish the thought, they might have to go on food stamps, or the executives of those corporations over in the UK might need to start making use of Britain dwindling social safety net. How unfair to those hard working people would that be?

(Link: http://www.theweedblog.com/pharmaceutical-companies-rush-to-patent-medical-marijuana/!

So perish that thought!

My concerns also extend to the executives of the many Big Privatization of California prison efforts. How will we keep so many of the prison cells filled to overflow, if we stop having the DOJ, DEA, and ICE come into California and bust people who are growing their own?

I also worry about the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has had to kick this issue around so many times that I think the issue has consumed far too much of their time. They have such contradictory legalese to consider regarding the issue that one year they make one decision, and the next year yet another.


Here is a topic that came up at DU about all the various in's and out's of the current legal situation:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2112283#2112576

And here is a link to Huff Po, from back in 2009, where so many folks celebrated the Supreme Court's ruling on Medical Marijuana, which gave some sanctity to the notion that state's rights on this matter trumped the Federal Government's rights:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/18/supreme-court-hands-medic_n_204681.html

President Obama, just because almost every poll taken in the last nine months shows that 60 to 70 percent of the populace of the USA wants this drug de-criminalized or taken off the Federal Scheduling of Drugs completely, doesn't mean you need to listen to that segment of the population. You were offered the Big Bucks you needed for your election by your Corporate Friends, who hold Corporate Personhood. Please don't feel that in the Twentieth First Century, mere human beings need to be considered!

Instead keep doing as you are doing already. Keep failing to mention th e unique ability of the Attorney General ( a person who is appointed by you!) to be able to take marijuana off the Federal Drug Schedule.Keep suggesting again and again that there is not any way for the Executive Branch to do anything about the medical marijuana issue.

Instead, keep insisting that it is up to Congress. After all, you then are able to rest secure in the knowledge that Congress has only Three Percent of its population approving of legalizing or de-criminalizing the substance. By the time that Congress becomes liberal enough to do this, the folks at the Big Pharma and Big Private Prison Corporations will be able to continue to plague the rest of us into obtaining prescriptions for our medical needs, or else risking the inside of a jail cell.

I hate my freedom, Mr President, so keep doing as you are doing!