Bill Maher and guests discuss Obama's Marijuana statement

Bill Maher, Salman Rushdie, Drunk Christopher Hitchens and Baked Mos Def talk about Obama's Marijuana Cop-Out

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Comedy

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• Bill Maher
• Salman Rushdie
• Christopher Hitchens
• Mos Def Obama
• Marijuana

[Patriol666]

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU AND YOUR WAY OF THINKING!

[heatbucspies55]

Holy shit, it just occured to me that one of the main reasons Obama doesn't give any way to Marijuana is because he might not want people going "Well of course the black guy wants it legal".

[Jossa81]

The Pot Standard

[appleseedxt]

@gfrantic87 believe me, for most people it's not that obvious

[BlackestBlood420]

Mos Def and Salman Rushdie, what a contrast in personalities...and they're both awesome

[LetzRide45]

@turtleboy35 Well hes not BUT all be it, he does have a street level sense of reality, which is realistic to the average american city slicker but granted his political and worldly vocal expression is minimal. He knows brooklyn or whereever hes from and thats it.

[turtleboy35]

Mos Def sounds like an ignorant fuck

[gfrantic87]

Er man I really hate how sometimes Christopher Hitchens keeps saying the most obvious stuff and yet has this tone as if he's espousing great wisdom.

[yankee2yankee]

There is EVERY good reason to legalize marijuana, and EVERY good reason to end prohibition once and for all. A majority agrees with that, and a majority supports legalization. What are we waiting for? Has society, as ruled by big money interests, turned completely against the interests of the vast majority? What is that, if not bald-faced TYRANNY?

[yankee2yankee]

It's not a matter of money, except that if that will make marijuana legal, FINE. It should be cheap in any case. And wouldn't it be wonderful to replace most of our plastics with a highly competitive organic, renewable product? Rushdie's remarks on Obama's stupid "bipartisanship" are right on. "Bipartisanship" is just code for giving away the farm! "Bipartisanship" has been less productive than partisanship. That's right, the majority of most people, everywhere, want marijuana LEGAL.

[yankee2yankee]

@heatbucspies55 That should be true, except that in retrospect it will have been be clear that he had made the RIGHT decision, after all, and he'd have been CREDITED. Or else Americans would be REALLY stupid about it and railroad him into retirement. Perhaps his goose is cooked anyway? There's sometimes a thin line between genius and foolhardiness, in politics in particular. So which is it? I think the momentum goes with legalization. Obama is on the wrong side of history, regarding marijuana.

[yankee2yankee]

What's amazing has been Obama's absolute denial of the WILL OF THE MAJORITY. That question he refers too? The one he belittles as having "ranked fairly high," and "whether legalizing marijuana would improve the economy and job creation, and uh, I don't know what this says about the online audience, the answer is no..." was THE SINGLE MOST POPULAR QUESTION. Should a president ridicule the most popular, and so among the most important questions, and their citizen authors? I say ABSOLUTELY NOT.