Obama shouldn't 'evolve' on anything.

[fujiyama]

44. I disagree completely that "this isn't a major issue"

and I say this as someone that doesn't even smoke the stuff. This is simply about the right of adults to engage in a recreational behavior that harms no one. The prohibition of marijuana has also been used by law enforcement and the courts to ruin thousands of lives over the last half+ century, has strengthened violent cartels and gang warfare. And as Obama rightly pointed out, there have been startling racial disparities in how this was all enforced. And by stigmatizing marijuana and making it so taboo, any potential medicinal, curative, or palliative uses have been completely ignored.

But then again the fourth amendment isn't really all that important to either party so fuck it.

As long as the police state is funded and its agenda is furthered, then all is good. As I said in another thread, I'm happy the President is speaking common sense on this issue, even if it is convenient that this is after the Gallup poll came out. Besides, he's been candid about his own marijuana use - yet his administration is busting pot dispensaries in CA. Sorry, I'm not totally impressed. He needs to call for the rescheduling of the drug. This should not be a federal matter. It's a fucking plant and really harms no one.