With several more states expected to legalize marijuana President Obama believes the federal government will be forced to get serious about changing its laws against the herb.In a recent interview with HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the president explained what was at stake if the voters in five states-Arizona, California, Maine,Massachusetts and Nevada-decide to approve ballot measures intended to legalize marijuana in a manner similar to what is currently underway in four other states and the District of Columbia.
“The good news is is that after this referenda, to some degree it’s gonna call the question, because if in fact it’s passed in all these states, you now have about a fifth of the country that’s operating under one set of laws, and four-fifths in another,” Obama stated.
Obama then went on to tell Maher that the outcome of the upcoming election could cause mass confusion within the federal agencies responsible for enforcing the nation’s drug laws. While those agencies will undoubtedly continue to try and stop interstate drug trafficking, there will likely soon be parts of the United States where even this level of policing no longer makes sense.
“The Justice Department, DEA, FBI, for them to try to straddle and figure out how they’re supposed to enforce laws in some places and not in others they’re gonna guard against transporting these drugs across state lines, but you’ve got the entire Pacific corridor where this is legal that is not gonna be tenable,” he said.
Although President Obama does not believe legalization will remedy all of the issues associated with marijuana, he does think the time has come for the nation to reconsider its position against the plant.
“I don’t think that legalization is a panacea,” Obama said, “But I think that we’re going to have to have a more serious conversation about how we are treating marijuana and our drug laws generally.” Indeed, the time has come for the federal government to starting working toward some concrete reform with respect to the national marijuana laws.
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Well, unless he drops the ‘rescheduling2 bomb’ on the nation as his final ‘PeaceOut!” it doesn’t really matter much what he thinks anymore.
Not sure it matters what Herr Drumph thinks because the crap shoot (and there will be lots of crap coming) is who will he staff in his admin and he’s going uptight old school with Guiliani so whoever knows about Guiliani is who we need to understand and pick apart.
As much as the MJ crowd thinks we moved, with Drumph, no one knows because we all know he doesn’t know much in depth about much of anything but real estate development.
It’s still good to be left coast!