Think Progress calls out President Obama and his Pot bullshit

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So the federal government remains in a holding pattern, with Obama refusing to do anything and Congress not expected to make progress anytime soon. One of the bills pending in the House but not introduced in the Senate would end prohibition, which means marijuana would be removed from the Schedules entirely.

Many have pointed to Obama’s recent comments as a reason why he should take executive action to exercise the power he retains to change a policy that is inconsistent with his position. “If the president truly believes what he says about marijuana, he has a moral imperative to make the law match up with his views and the views of the majority of the American people, without delay. He should initiate the long overdue rescheduling of marijuana today,” Marijuana Majority Chairman Tom Angell told ThinkProgress.

But the significance of even Obama’s shift in rhetoric should not be dismissed, doubling down on a position Friday that just a few years ago would have seemed inconceivable. “We’re going to see what happens in the experiments in Colorado and Washington,” he said. “… (T)he incarceration model that we’ve taken particularly around marijuana, does not seem to have produced the kinds of results that we’ve set.”

...Senator Sanders or Warren can introduce this in the Senate. They'd get a jump on Rand Paul.