Will Obama answer up about Marijuana? Your Interview with the President - 2012

[WeAskThePeople]

EAT IT RAW - NO-bama

[trident343lives]

LOL. If you cannot give us jobs, Give us Pot for F*cks sake!!!!!!

[SimonB7EA]

Guys, I posted a video of my interview with the president and its about weed

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[Ryuu44]

And he didn't. What a suprise...

[loxleymendoza]

pot may have been the number one question but I went through 60 pages and to me the NDAA was number one. And frankly it should have been with you too. unless you are ok with warrantless arrests of american citizens indefinite detention,execution without a lawyer a trial or a formal charge.. And really ...if didn't respect our bill of rights what makes you think he'd even consider your requests?? now he can arrests you without a warrant at your MJ farm

[HappyCabbie]

@loxleymendoza Did you vote the NDAA question up?

[gedgetips]

Smoking good vid!

[SimplyHerpes]

@HappyCabbie, I wasn't proposing a poll tax. I was proposing requesting a dollar donation, non required, and all the proceeds could even go to a charity. But the method itself wasn't the crux of the point I was making. Steven Colbert did it on his program. He made a word diagram of the issues most important to people. Marijuana stood out big and bold in the first picture then when compared with the diagram of people willing to contribute, it shrank to the smallest issue.

[Gameboygenius]

1) Obama fails to answer the marijuana questions.

2) The potheads vote for Ron Paul.

3) ???

4) Profit?

[canbarosan]

WITCH WILL THE PRESIDENT CHOSE? MARIJUANA OR WW3 :))

[SimonB7EA]

Guys, I really tried to get interviewed with the president while lit of my ass

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[MrTheoryFilms]

lol marijuana marijuana marijuana marijuana marijuana i think im starting to see a pattern here.

[ScentedNectar]

He already issued a statement a couple of weeks ago, saying that he won't be answering any marijuana questions. :(

[PaulineTriage]

@ScentedNectar He actually can't. By federal law all dialog regarding illicit drugs MUST be fielded through the office of the Drug Czar (still the most ridiculous title ever dreamed up by the US Government, but I digress) and the Drug Czar is legally bound NOT to say anything positive about an illicit substance.

[ScentedNectar]

@PaulineTriage I think it's time to legalize, and get rid of the Drug Czar position. Hand him his pink slip. :)

[PaulineTriage]

@ScentedNectar Decriminalization of cultivation for personal use and legalization and regulation of medical preparations would go a long way towards conserving wasted resources and cutting the Mexican drug trade off at the knees. Pot - grown illegally in US national parks and tended by trafficked Mexican workers - provides the seed money for their deadly cocaine trade. Treating cannabis as we do poppies would be a good way to get a handle on it.

[ScentedNectar]

@PaulineTriage The plant also has industrial uses. Fabric from hemp is far stronger and long lasting than cotton, and the seeds are both very nutritional and have an oil that could be used as biofuel. It could make any country growing it, more self providing and fuel efficient. Oh yeah, also paper. Paper made from renewable-every-year hemp saves a ton of trees from being chopped down un-renewably.

Plus of course, it's wonderful to smoke the flowers. :)

[PaulineTriage]

@ScentedNectar It was used for all that stuff prior to the Stamp Act, medicinals made from indica flowers included. George Washington grew hemp and he makes notes in his diaries that indicate he sexed at least some plants just for the flowers (he attempted to segregate males and females prior to seeding) which may or may not have been for medicine. In the early 20th century indica oil was used to treat opiate addiction and was actually successful. (Anecdotally it worked for me.)

[ScentedNectar]

@PaulineTriage It kept a friend of mine away from drinking too much alcohol too, anecdotally. I hope over the next few years it'll become legal. There's no sense at all for its prohibition.

[PaulineTriage]

HA! Came down with a flu and conked out early last night so I just watched the interview this morning. Short answer to Happy Cabbie's question: FUCK NO

However, he continues to do polls like this knowing that this has consistently been the number 1 topic and will continue to be so. It'll be interesting to see what he might do as a lame duck next term. I say next term because I believe it is a foregone conclusion we're gonna get another four years of Obama.

[NKA23]

Well, that´s probably right considering the republican candidates are all moron, douche bags and assholes.

[PaulineTriage]

@NKA23 I'm starting to feel a bit like a conspiracy nut but I've been saying for a while I don't think the Republicans are TRYING to win the presidency. I think their strategy is to gain a few more seats in the Senate and use their majority to continue bullying Obama, who will continue to lay down and take it because ALL of them are working for the exact same interests.

[NKA23]

Might be true, you know, over here in Germany we say that at any given presidential election the US voters have the choice between one candidate sponsored by oil industry and one sponsored by oil industry.

[PaulineTriage]

@NKA23 HA! Sounds like they've figured US politics out pretty succinctly in Germany.

[NKA23]

Yup.

Your politics often are absurd to us, like for example the question of capital punishment.

The US is the last western country that has it.

Any candidate who wants to win an election HAS to confirm that he or she believes in it. Even the so called "liberals"...how can anybody be liberal who wants that barbarian act of revenge?

[peterpotpie]

Why do people elect criminals, and then expect them to do the right thing? The government will not change laws that cut profits to their owners. It's up to the people. A united front is needed. And there are only two ways to hurt them: money & votes.

[Educationey]

and in regards to SOPA/PIPA he just basically eloquently rephrased the question and reaffirmed he would do that. But otherwise he basically avoided the question.

[HappyIsFleeting]

xD Nope! Us stoners got fucked! xD FUCK OSHITTA

[catlord98765]

Are they all about marijuana? or are there some about hemp?

[4estfloor]

the whole interview was censor BS... One big ass act. and when something remotely juicy was brought up, the interview was audio muted and cut out. along with his BS "I can't hear you" crap.. Everything and anything important was left out..

[hotlavatube]

Remember when the GOP did a big website where anyone and everyone could put up what they wanted the GOP in congress/senate to focus on?

#1 item from the site: Legalize marijuana

Funnily enough, in their roadplan for America (or whatever they were calling it), you could not find any mention of that hot topic from their website.

[HappyCabbie]

@hotlavatube yep

[hotlavatube]

I've heard third hand that he used to smoke it in Hawaii. That's not a big surprise though.

[TheCurmudgen]

America wants their WEED, dood! Legalize it!

[HappyCabbie]

@TheCurmudgen I agree

[geyza0711]

no he didn´t

[HappyCabbie]

@geyza0711 a lot of this I blame on Steve Grove who selected the questions.

[TehNevs]

I'm pretty sure he just dodged the question. The internet is about to rage. 3...2...1...

[HappyCabbie]

@TehNevs very true

[ahood60]

Damn i missed the first hour what was his response to all the marijuana questions?? anyone

[Ejak2021]

@ahood60 there was only one hour? It started at 5:30 and ended an hour later as far as I know. The thing had been live for an hour but just a splash screen, I think. I wasn't here until 5:20 so I can't say for sure. And, I left after a few minutes of the thing going off.

[HappyCabbie]

@ahood60 a link to the full interview is now in the video description

[Ejak2021]

I watched the thing. ...looks like no marijuana questions. SURPRISE SURPRISE!

[HappyCabbie]

@Ejak2021 sad but true

[huckfinn22]

I regret my years after school that robbed me of ambition and constructive uses for my abilities due to my and my best friends' experimentation with marijuana. Ultimately, I gave it up, along with those friends who did not, and I finally got on track with my life. So I am no advocate for its use, knowing personally at least some of its consequences. The incarceration rate, the cost of our war on it, and the outrageous criminal enterprise and violence it spawns will only end with legalization.

[HappyCabbie]

@huckfinn22 Yes I agree. I don't smoke weed myself nor do I ever plan to. However I see no need to send non violent criminals to jail over something like drugs

[Dewdaahman]

Gen. 1:29.. what God gave to man, man cannot take away from man with a Harrison Act, a Farmer Brown Act, nor with a "lemme hold 5 dollars" Bill, no pun intended..

[SEThatered]

@HappyCabbie

As an engineering geek i'm very interested in cheap, but strong cellulose fibers from cannabis.

(you can make plywood, ropes, cloth (akin to linen), "stronger" paper etc.)

So why the hell nobody is researching/selecting non-drug-containing marijuana?

Lobby from big companies?

I mean calculate how long weed grows and how long a tree grows:

"hemp" plywood would suffocate wooden plywood,

"hemp clothing are cheaper than the linen equivalent while having similar properties

etc.

[HappyCabbie]

@SEThatered good to know

[PaulineTriage]

I am a cannabis decrim activist and I happen to agree with the people who think we should be focusing on PIPA, ACTA and legislation of that nature, as opposed to inundating the president with questions about cannabis that he will continue to wriggle out of answering.

Not now, ents. Someday, hopefully before I die, but not now.

[HappyCabbie]

@PaulineTriage Well the most voted up questions were about the war on drugs.

[PaulineTriage]

He will not answer the question just as he didn't when the cannabis-related petitions got three times the minimum number of signatures required for consideration. He will once again farm it out to Gil Kerlikowske, whose job requires him BY LAW to refrain from saying anything positive about cannabis whatsoever, and Kerlikowske will give another non-answer while Big Pharma quietly prepares to move in for a monopoly on medipot.

[godshiva]

I can't watch it live - but I hope to get the cliff notes later.  Decriminalization of all drugs worked so well in Portugal, there's not much reason now to continue the drug war.

[HappyCabbie]

@godshiva a link to the full video is now in the video description

[Stabsnipers]

If Obama needs only 1 reason to legalize this drug, he need only look at history. We all know what happened with alcohol.

[HappyCabbie]

@Stabsnipers very true

[destin325]

you got to admit that its at least a little humorous that with a trillion dollar deficit, 12 year war, ballooned housing, high unemployment, world relations, american education ranked in the teens now world wide......that the most important questions, the ones that matter....are about...weeeeeeed maaaaan

[SnafuMatthew]

@destin325 A lot of people don't want to make a big deal out of this because its "just pot maaan", but it's a lot more than that. This issue is the barometer for how our government currently views the freedom of it's citizens. At this point they still believe the prison, police, tobacco, and alcohol industry along with right wing preference legislators, outweigh our liberty to do with our body what we please.

[destin325]

@SnafuMatthew

you're preaching to the wrong fella. I'm fine with legalization. Hemp products, reduction of jail population for related convictions, medical uses and so on. The 'weed' negatives are 100 fold less than alcohol or tobacco...I get that, even as a non-smoker I'd sign a petition for legalization even though I still wouldn't use it....it costs more to keep it illegal than the good if it were legal. I was merely commenting that of all the possible topics.....weed topped the pages.

[HappyCabbie]

@destin325 Which questions did you vote up?

[kevinmeehan71]

Happycabby what is your view on marijuana and your say on is better to had it' legalised

[HappyCabbie]

@kevinmeehan71 As already previously stated (read my comment below) I am in favor of making drugs legal.

[freedom0speech]

Obama is bought out. He won't do anything we want. It's time to give up on him. 4 more years of this guy will ruin us.

[HappyCabbie]

@freedom0speech I haven't made up my mind yet. I am not satisfied with him, it ultimately depends on who the Republicans put up

[nerdlass]

MJ is huuugely illegal in Japan. The odd thing is that hemp-related paraphenalia is very popular and many Japanese people think they are maple leaves... I'm with other folks, though... NDAA, SOPA, ACTA, and PIPA are things we really need to ask about and fight. MJ can wait this one out. :/

[HappyCabbie]

@nerdlass The majority of people on YouTube disagree with you.

[stonedcommander]

We are paying on average 8 bucks a pack of cigarettes...Imagine what they would charge for an ounce of weed? The black market will always exist even if it were legal, and would be cheaper.

[HappyCabbie]

@stonedcommander In my opinion I see no reason why they just can't let people grow pot in their own homes.

[OtherGonzo]

I think the reason this keeps coming up is this is the first President to admit using pot. Many people thought that would mean that he would support legalization. Obviously that isn't true.

[HappyCabbie]

@OtherGonzo Clinton used pot but he claimed he "didn't inhale" LOL

[itznickf]

if a president makes weed legal he will be elected period

[HappyCabbie]

@itznickf Very true

[mattybock]

No illegal harmless plant - no illegal market

no illegal market - no drug cartel

No drug cartel- Mexico improves.

Mexico improves - Mexican economy improves

Mexican economy improves - no reason to migrate

No illegal immigrants - no cheap exploitable labor

No cheap exploitable labor - no profit

That's why it will not happen. The rich will not jeopardize their income.

[TheRepublicOfUngeria]

@mattybock Why won't these politicians just legalize it? Can't they see that giant ass corporations will take control of the market anyway and then they can whet the dicks of the politicians with big stacks of cash far more than they are being whetted now? Seriously :/

[SuperMrsnowman]

@mattybock well if enough people yell at you...

[HappyCabbie]

@mattybock interesting theory

[gokisoul]

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[HappyCabbie]

@gokisoul yep

[toyotaprius79]

That and ACTA, Obama should respond to the two most highly voted answers!

[HappyCabbie]

@toyotaprius79 He didn't address Acta but he did address SOPA

[xTHETBONEx]

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[HappyCabbie]

@xTHETBONEx ok

[SimplyHerpes]

Just ask everyone to please donate a dollar for a vote, then filter the votes by whether a dollar was donated, and watch all the Marijuana questions disappear!

[HappyCabbie]

@SimplyHerpes I am pretty sure poll taxes are unconstitutional

[ThePariahLivesOn]

I doubt he'll answer

[HappyCabbie]

@ThePariahLivesOn Steve Grove the host never bothered to ask him.

[ThePariahLivesOn]

@HappyCabbie Suprise fucking suprise 

[adybarosanul]

Marijuana is not a drug and it should be legal."The gateway" argument only suports the pro-legalization arguments in my opinion...the only way this can be a gateway to other drugs is because it is ilegal and you to have buy it from drug dealers and so on.

I thionk its only a matter of time until it will become legal,people are not that stupid and ignorant like the old days anymore...

[HappyCabbie]

@adybarosanul let's hope so

[FANNYLEROUX]

You know, Alcohol used to be illegal.... Whats happening now is the same as what happend back then (Minus of course, the internet and such). But people made their voices heard time and time again. Some people were dead set against alcohol. I personally think drugs should be legal. If you want to go do them, great, enjoy it, as long as youre safe... fine. If people are against it... hey guess what... don't do them!

[HappyCabbie]

@FANNYLEROUX indeed

[tom9152a]

Marijuana?

[virumoz]

@tom9152a

In repetition it almost sounds like a prayer, doesn't it? I'm for »marijuana« to replace the old »hallelujah«. And instead of »amen«, we'll chant »duuude«, just very laid back.

HappyCabbie, those repetitions were quite brain-washy. Marijuana? (-:

[TheRemoteMower]

Obama is going to answer questions he fabricates. The real questions will NOT be answered

[HappyCabbie]

@TheRemoteMower yep

[MethodicalMadness]

Don't hold your breath, HC (unless you're inhaling, then by all means do it!)

[HappyCabbie]

@MethodicalMadness LOL

[dustinbowls420247]

doubtful, theres no room for freedom when it comes to business.

[HappyCabbie]

@dustinbowls420247 indeed

[BusinessIDBAI]

Who gives a fuck about pot? We have NDAA, Patriot Act, SOPA, Occupy Wall Street, Banks going unpunished, Free Trade Agreements, the outsourcing of jobs, the War in Afghanistan and the threats against Iran and you fuckers want to talk about Marijuana?

Wtf is wrong with you people!??!

[HappyCabbie]

@BusinessIDBAI I can tell you the majority of the people who submitted questions and voted give a fuck about pot. You had your chance to submit questions and vote up your favorites like everyone else.

[BusinessIDBAI]

@HappyCabbie

I didn't even know this thing was going on, or I would have definitely voted up something other than pot.

I guess some marijuana advocates have some groups, and posted some stuff on social media sites, whilst the folks I deal with that are going after NDAA, SOPA, Citizens United and the Wars are oh.. I don't know... Organizing protests.

Pot is not a real issue, it'd be nice to have it legal, but there are much, much bigger problems.

[sneaksuit]

@BusinessIDBAI The failed war on (some) drugs has cost the US billions, causes violence, and destroyed families! That's not a real issue? Wake up.

[rwmtiger]

people want drug? what wrong with them -.- i think jeepersMedia and other guy is only 2 good in there!

[HappyCabbie]

@rwmtiger People don't necessarily want drugs, they just want the needless incarceration of non violent citizens to end.

[pcpancake]

Smoke em if you got em. Save Cash should be a priority. Poor Obama and Good Luck Obama. Nice Vid

[HappyCabbie]

@pcpancake thanks

[ThePeacefulAtheistt]

I asked a queastion about marijuana too

[HappyCabbie]

@ThePeacefulAtheistt good job

[itchygonads]

Very interesting, surprised no-one cares about the NDAA though...Keep us updated dude!

[HappyCabbie]

@itchygonads it is not that nobody cared, it is that nobody thought the NDAA was as important as the war on drugs

[itchygonads]

@HappyCabbie I know, to an extent that kind of disgusts me haha

[GoddardsJournal]

I tried to thumb up some MJ questions and each said: "Topic has been closed for voting."

[HappyCabbie]

@GoddardsJournal yep

[ISlamMyWifeIntoAWall]

Unfortunately both sides of this debate distort the science the pro legalization side claiming its the cure for absolutely everything from cancer to aids while doing the creationist style "i cant hear you" act whenever the evidence supporting a link to mental illness is present. The anti legislation side claiming its a gateway drug etc.

I throughly recommend c0nc0rdance's video on Marijuana.

[HappyCabbie]

@ISlamMyWifeIntoAWall I agree

[OrthodoxAtheist]

@ISlamMyWifeIntoAWall I love C0nC0rdance but the more I know about a subject he covers, the more apparent his lack of depth of investigation and reporting is. Instead of relying on a youTuber, I recommend reading peer-reviewed scientific journals over the past 15 years. Marijuana used as a food additive will combat and cure dozens of cancers (including topically for skin cancer), and there is PLENTY of evidence. I've never seen claims re: AIDS. That's ridiculous.

[SiriusMined]

@OrthodoxAtheist "C0nC0rdance but the more I know about a subject he covers, the more apparent his lack of depth of investigation and reporting is."

I agree. I gave him a number of questions, and he made made no attempts to answer them save for an appeal to authority.

[SiriusMined]

@ISlamMyWifeIntoAWall "the pro legalization side claiming its the cure for absolutely everything from cancer to aids"

Uh, no.  Way to strawman.

There's evidence that marijuana eases the pain and nasea SYMPTOMS from AIDS patients. No reputable advocate claims that it cures AIDS.

[SiriusMined]

@ISlamMyWifeIntoAWall

I watch c0nc0rdance's video and had questions for things that seemed to be potential problems with the research. His response "that's a good question", and he never attempted to answer my questions, nor did he try to point me to better sources that might do so.

I lost a lot of respect for him after that.

[FxOxC]

@ISlamMyWifeIntoAWall Not a cure, it offers relief from some of the pain like alcohol and other legal drugs do but without the nasty side effects

[TalladegaTom]

He will laugh it off again.

They ask for our opinions. We give it to them in HUGE numbers....again.

The sad drug war statistics are known to all.

The damage done by the prohibition of Marijuana is obvious to everyone except to those who have the power to change it.

The system has itself become dependent on Marijuana revenue.

Legalize and stop this nonsense now!

[HappyCabbie]

@TalladegaTom I agree

[GoddardsJournal]

What's the username for his account? Ah, okay, he's @ whitehouse.

I might just post a question about, umm, oh let's see... Ah! I know about marijuana! No I guess that's kinda common, hmm, so how about about cannabis, yeah, that's it!

[HappyCabbie]

First. Also if anyone wants to know my position. Drugs should be legal. Prohibition never works. It only drives it underground and in the hands of criminals.

[TacticalGamesReviews]

@HappyCabbie drugs will never be legal. It's a fact .. its bad for your body and ruins your system! medicinal reasons, yes. Drug abuse? no thank you.

[Volvandese]

@TacticalGamesReviews Drugs not being legal because of drug abuse is like alcohol not being legal because of drunkenness... Notice that alcohol is NOT illegal.

[TacticalGamesReviews]

@Volvandese alcohol is used for multiple reasons and also drinking it doesnt ruin your body as much as smoking weed .. 1 smoke of weed = 30 siggares... its very bad for your body and if it was legal i am almost 90% sure that there will be alot more deaths

[KingsIndianCR]

@TacticalGamesReviews I'm almost 90% sure that there would be fewer deaths. It'd be a much safer business if it weren't in the hands of criminals.

[TacticalGamesReviews]

@KingsIndianCR hah i bet there would be 90% less deaths if people are high as fuck and can't move because there gonna slam there head and probly crack it open somewhere and not even know bout it because of the drug!

[Lunchbox8978]

@TacticalGamesReviews you know that can happen with alcohol to right?

[KingsIndianCR]

@TacticalGamesReviews I'd be curious to know what evidence you have that people getting high and slamming their heads and and cracking them open is a major cause of death in the United States (or, at least, that it was before the beginning of the War On Drugs). I'm guessing it's just a few anecdotes, but if it's more than that, I'd be glad to hear it :) .

[Chaoitcme]

@TacticalGamesReviews Wow you are very misinformed if you think that marijuana is more harmful than alcohol.

[Volvandese]

@TacticalGamesReviews Sorry, but your "facts" are pretty far off. Alcohol is linked to about 75k deaths a year in the United States. Tobacco to about 400k. Weed, on the other hand, is linked to fewer than 100 despite roughly 40% of the US population admitting to having tried it, with about 20% of kids coming out of high school using it regularly. This illustrates 2 points: (1) pot is not as harmful as those others, (2) it being illegal is not stopping its use anyway.

[EpicurusIVXX]

@HappyCabbie so you are saying you would like to get high with me...alright Happy, if you insist.

but you are responsible for the munchies....thats just SMART

[AchmeZe]

@HappyCabbie That, and controlling it yourself (putting standards on it, taxing it and such) helps make sure the idiots that DO want to ruin their bodies do so with a safe product, or within the confinds of a specialised building. (drug buildings... doesn't America have lots of empty homes? :3)

Eh... why did we start the law on drugs anyway?

[RomanFightRS]

@HappyCabbie I agree, in Holland weed is partially legalized and legally sold in placed we call coffeeshops, and as prescription. As a medicine it is actually free. This eliminates all street dealing. We are also allowed to have up to five Marijuana plants for own use. It is not allowed to carry more then a few grams with you, and smoking the stuff is forbidden outside the coffeeshops or your own home.

[MyRealityBytes]

@HappyCabbie - "Drugs should be legal." Got crack? LOL! Not hardly....pot should be regulated and sold in the US just like in the Netherlands. I have a friend who lives in Amsterdam and the pot laws over there are not what most people believe they are.

And....another thing to think about on a social level....with the economy such as it is and unemployment rates so high, do we need a stoned population? Most people are already fucked in the head from prescribed medicines!

[SuperMrsnowman]

@MyRealityBytes u rly think employers are going to let their employees smoke on the job? how would legalizing it make a difference with the economy besides stimulating it?

[signnet2]

@HappyCabbie People are free to do as they wish, so long as it does not affect or harm others. Honestly, the money they could make from taxes on drugs and the money they could save from putting "criminals" in jail would definitely put a dent in our debt. Some may say it is bad to consume, yet tobacco and alcohol are completely legal, yet cause more accidents and injuries than most other drugs.