Obama really could magically make the medical marijuana issue disappear...

[RainDog]

46. I agree. Special interests, not the best interests of Americans

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is what keeps the currently bad policy in place.

That's what makes me want to puke about this - because the reality is that the current drug laws result in more than three-quarters of a million arrests a year - more than 750,000 - and those arrests are racially biased.

The govt. protects the alcoholic beverage industry from competition - which is corrupt at its core.

This administration has already signaled it is willing to continue to make herbal cannabis illegal while allowing for the idea of Sativex, which is nothing more than cannabis suspended in liquid - by the way it has parsed and modified its statements regarding marijuana's medical benefit.

Sativex is not the same as synthetic marinol, it's whole cannabis - which, obviously, has medical benefit and should IMMEDIATELY be removed from Schedule I because it is simply hypocrisy to allow current bad rulings to stand. Sativex is already legally prescribed in Canada, Great Britain, Israel, Germany... what all these countries have said is that cannabis has medical benefits.

The majority of the American people know this, as well, which is why the hypocrisy is so infuriating. It's the same mindset that bails out banks and throws out Americans into the street. Government of some of the (rich) people.