Obama, You're No Stranger to the Bong: An Open Letter to the President

Thank you, President Obama, for keeping your campaign pledge to end raids on medical marijuana dispensaries that are legal under state laws in California and elsewhere.

Thank you for reversing an inhumane policy established by the Clinton administration and continued by the Bush administration.

Given the experience you and other elected officials have had with illegal drugs and your willingness to challenge the status quo, now is the time to reconsider decades of prohibitionist drug policies that have succeeded only in massively increasing the toll of human misery, violence, and hypocrisy. As with alcohol prohibition, the drug war intensifies and exacerbates every negative outcome it is ostensibly designed to combat.

President Obama, do the right thing and end the war on drugs.

"Obama, You're No Stranger to the Bong" was written, performed, and edited by Paul Feine; special thanks to Alex Manning.

For more drug policy videos, articles, and links, go to http://www.reason.tv/video/show/705.html

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[notabuzzkill]

Sorry but Obama is a hypocrite regarding marijuana.

[SUITSUSALL]

Approximately 6% of the agricultural land area of the contiguous United States would produce more Cannabis Biomass than is required to supply all current demand for gasoline, diesel, and oil in the US.

4/5 of everything being done on this planet are dependent on some kind of OIL product. The reason cannabis/hemp was made illegal even with overwhelming proof of its SAFE RELAXING HERB is to continue the profiteering of the very few!

See: THE REPORT: Cannabis: The Facts, Human Rights And The Law

[cow1578]

I think guy who said 6% of agricultural land would supply our energy needs is full of crap. Cannabis is not a wonder plant that can solve all our problems.

What legalization could do is make our streets safer, our children less likely to use drugs and our absurd deficit a little less bad. The objectives of the war on drugs are not being achieved by that war. It's like trying to win the Vietnam war by dropping a 500 lbs. bomb for every man, woman, and child in the country. It isn't working.

[seymournuggets]

I guess roughly 60% said no on legalizing, and 40% said yeah. If we can just alter that 20%. Like hear me out! Kill off 10% of the baby boomers. Then get 10% of your friends, and family registered to vote. Thumbs up if this a good idea? lol

[Ryannnn29]

ron paul for 2012. drug wars don't work... look at the past century. learn something people-who-think-otherwise. what a ridiculous world we live in where cannabis is considered bad...

[cmekill64]

FUCK THE DEA AND FBI

[unheardcky]

i wouldn't want to see it legalized becouse id be harder for teens like me to get

[justbringit151515]

@jeepndesert

"a War on drugs is a war on me"

"they got money for war but can't feed the poor"

-Tupac. Keep Ya Head Up

whether it gets legalized or not, will not solve the problem. the problem is money. we give it too much power. as long as there is money, there will be control. but who controls the money? the federal Reserve. but who do they serve??? Satan?

[sneakyamdal]

politicians were not created to change things, but to make sure everything sticks the same. Even the romans did this! it's nothing else than history repeating itself again and again and again...

[hidethisnine]

@notabuzzkill Obama is a lying hypocrite regarding everything.

[jfm487]

Yeah. maybe that's why it took him 12 days to responf to the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico and why he parties and takes vacations and golfs while the people of FL, and other states have to clean up and cope with the oil mess. Obama is stoned alright. he is a a totla ZERO loser. Troops still die in Iraq and Afganistan while he parties and acts like a moron who can only read a teleprompter.

[rpoosterrhema]

they want it all for themselves...besides ending the war on drugs would only bring taxes...pout...My dealer doesn't tax!

[bjkbjkbkjb]

@WestEtnaMafia i really hope you're wrong

[hyastu]

1:53 thats some ugly ass piff

[sweetness2152]

sour diesel is pretty bomb, sour dukie is goin around here right now and its the shit

[Bartman67]

lets all go get high, YOU SHUT THE HELL UP you freek shows

[emerhausen]

wurd

[christo930]

Government hypocrisy is never ceases to amaze me. Bush and Obama have both used hard drugs yet continue to throw people in prison for doing exactly what they themselves have done.

[WestEtnaMafia]

he is gonna do nothing- no different from the last to the next douche bag in office. ron paul wants to decriminalize it btw

[rainbowbrat09]

come on obama do this for all those people who could've been president like you but got caught like you didn't.

[XanatharEye]

Bud soaked in olive oil will burn with one spark, by one spark i mean one flick of a bic

[caliNYCdoja]

Obama has lied about everything he was going to do

[caliNYCdoja]

one spark wouldnt set cooking oil on fire

[forXION]

hemp is so useful... research the all the things hemp can be used for...

[jewboyjwr]

fuck hemp!

thats a waste of good herb. unless ya make that shit outta stems i guess