Obama says marijuana ‘no more dangerous than alcohol’

[RainDog]

48. Try to think of this as an unfolding political moment

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Different "actors" in this process have different parts to play.

OUR PART, as citizens, is to contact our legislators to tell them we support Reid's recent statement on medical marijuana (he has come out in favor.) Call Reid, as well, to indicate support.

But, I think the Democrats have been reading the polls and they know this is a winning issue.

Look at how the end of prohibition of alcohol came about, and its consequences. Supporting the repeal of prohibition created a re-alignment in power in the Democratic party that allowed FDR to gain office and started the Democratic party's rejection of the KKK. That was the impetus for the move from just populism to a philosophy of human rights in FDR's "Four Freedoms."

The Irish and Germans and liberal northern states gained more clout than the Dixiecrat states (tho they were catered too, as well, at that time.) Democratic primaries at the time were knife fights between the Klan and Northerners who despised those bastards, thankfully. The Klan even held a rally in D.C. 'cause they couldn't get no respect for racism. It was a BIG SCHISM.

Maybe this signals the rise of the west for the Democratic party leadership of the future - and the direction of the party as forward-looking, rather than backward. Who knows.

It's exciting to watch a political process unfold related to such an issue, tho.