OBAMAJUANA

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US CA: Column: Obamajuana

Pubdate: Thu, 6 Nov 2008

Source: Sacramento News & Review (CA)

Author: R. V. Scheide

OBAMAJUANA

Let's Get Really High on Change. Let's End the Drug War.

How pleasant, to be alive as the old regime gasps its final breaths! No, no, no, nurse, the morphine drip won't be necessary. I'm enjoying every last painful second of it. Not that the Obama landslide marks the final end of the ancien regime. The president-elect remains deeply indebted to Wall Street aristocrats, as evidenced by his enthusiastic support for the taxpayer-funded $750 billion bailout of the very same banksters who crashed the world economy with their $500 trillion pyramid scheme. Still, to borrow Obama's primary campaign themes, we can hope his relentless move to the center this summer was simply a ruse to get elected and real progressive change is just around the corner.

There'd be no better place to start and achieve immediate results than dismantling America's disastrous drug policies and the prison industrial complex along with it. Since Nancy Reagan just said "no," California's prison population has more than doubled. Thanks in part to mandatory-minimum sentencing laws, there are currently 30,000 Californians incarcerated for nonviolent drug offenses, a disproportionate number of them people of color. Our prisons are operating at double their designed capacity. The response by federal and state officials, Republican and Democrat? Build more prisons. Get tougher on crime.

Proposition 5 aimed to change all that. Which is why every public official with their fingers in the prison industrial complex's pie, from the drug czar John Walters to Sen. Dianne Feinstein to Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully, vehemently opposed it.

Forgotten amid the controversy over Prop. 8, the patently unconstitutional anti-gay marriage initiative, Prop. 5 would decriminalize marijuana use and offer more rehabilitation services to nonviolent drug offenders, substantially altering the state's approach. As SN&R reported last week, after an initial outlay of $2.5 billion, the program would pay for itself. But you'd never guess that watching Feinstein's commercial against the measure.

Feinstein must take her fashion cues from the same geniuses who dreamed up the color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System. Here's Diane in her powder-blue blouse advising us to vote against Prop. 8, because all discrimination is bad. Here's Diane in her fire-engine red blazer advising us to be tough on crime and vote against Prop. 5, even though the ongoing prosecution of the drug war is inherently discriminatory.

Never mind the commercial was paid for by the prison guards union. Never mind that her husband, billionaire war profiteer Richard Blum--who along with CEO Ronald Tutor holds 75 percent of the voting stock for Perini Corporation--has made a fortune building military bases, prisons and casinos. Perhaps the latter explains why the state's American Indian tribes also sponsored the commercial.

On the home drug-war front, Sacramento took a back seat in its quest to become a world-class city in September, when the Fresno County Board of Supervisors voted to adopt the state's medical-marijuana I.D. card system, the 41st county to do so. By remaining one of only 17 counties that have declined to adopt the system, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors is not only potentially endangering the lives of patients by limiting their access to medicine, it's making the lives of local law enforcement more difficult, since they have no way of easily validating a patient's medical recommendation.

Fortunately, cooler heads have prevailed at the Sacramento Police Department. According to SPD spokesman Matt Young, "We encourage our officers to consider the 'spirit of the law' vs. the 'letter of the law,' and handle each event on an ad hoc basis."

Federally, possession of over 28.5 grams is a misdemeanor; less than that is an infraction. However, Young says, "If we stop a person with what an officer can articulate as an amount a user would have--there are no indication of sales--and they have a doctor's recommendation, whether or not they are on their way from a dispensary, we have the discretion not to cite or arrest. Our tendency would be to do nothing and send them on their way, with their marijuana, since if it is later determined that the person was entitled to the marijuana, the police department is liable for its return. If we can't return it, then we can be responsible for the monetary loss."

Pity a majority of the county board of supes can't share the same enlightened views of our local constables. Before his move to the center this summer, Obama indicated that he favors reforming our drug laws, including the decriminalization of marijuana. Let's hope change really is in the air, and we're not just all smoking dope.

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n1008/a05.html?397

malloryjade · Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:54 am Post subject:

Great read thanks for posting.
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**Brother Adam** · Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:54 am Post subject:

Obama isn't going to change anything except our original form of government even further. One big change will be installing Israeli terrorists to govt positions (like Rahm Emanuel who left America to serve in Israel's IDF and is son of Irgun terrorists that murdered Palestinians) and changing our constitutional republic to a communist/socialist government. He's going to change the gun laws to make sure Americans aren't well enough armed to shoot their asses for the treason they've already committed and will continue to commit in the name of Israel. He'll change money from the hands of the poor to the hands of the rich. He'll forever change the idea that decent people are who hold positions of power. He'll change more laws to ensure more dual US/Israeli citizens get positions in our govt. He'll change your current ability to feed your families. He'll change your bank accounts into more debts.

I can't believe how many people fall for these flase idols.
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What do people think about any changes in cannabis policy in the U.S. since Pres. Obama took office?

It seems as though Obama has made strides in allowing states to make their own laws in regards to medical use of cannabis. Due to that states rights policy, that movement of allowing sick citizens to use cannabis is growing at a larger rate than would be other wise. That nod from the Fed's is permitting other states to now move forward to using medical usage of cannabis for citizens. -It's no longer considered against Federal law, the same way and so more politicians are supporting their states moveing foward on this issue...

The states rights policy will likely extend toward allowing free American farmers to grow hemp, (communist Chinese farmers grow it, why not free American farmers?) as this is an issue that is coming up too. There are states which have given the ok for their farmers to grow hemp and the only hurdle is the federal government and now it appears that the Feds. will have less power on that issue. -As long as Obama communicates to His goons to not attack American farmers if the follow their state laws...

More, states rights will likely play a role when one of the states RE-legalizes the superplant. And California is putting it on the ballot and they have reason to believe, throught polls that it will pass. Colorado got close to RE-legalizing the superplant throght the election and if it passed an Obama, states rights mind set would have been important for it to work...

Brother Adam, does't seem to care for Obama. It's not that I care much for Obama but it was going to be Obama or a Republican like John McCain and that would have maybe been a choker to the cause of cannabis issues around the world.

McCain would have been a continuation of the Bush way of leading. Obama is an end to the Bush way of leading.

They all have good and bad points? No, the Bush way of leading only seemed to have BAD JUJU POINTS. REALLY REALY BAD JUJU.

Now, the medical issue is all tweaked. Everyone knows that right? The current medical cannabis laws are tweaked. It amounts to government extortion. A sick person pays the government money and hope to get permission to be allowed to use cannabis for medical uses. TWEAKED.

Humans should be allowed to use cannabis with out asking government for permission. With out paying extortion money. For medical reasons or otherwise.

Cannabis has thousands of years of documented usage for medical conditions and it should be available to all and it should not be anyones business.

Cannabis, the tree of life, was created for the healing of the nations. Let it heal. Free. Extortion free.

So, tweaked as it may be, Obama is allowing this movement to move forward in it's own tweaked way and that may allow it to become totally RE-legalized by the same token; states rights.

What do other people here at THC Ministry think about Obama now?

Obamajuana or Obamination

**Ferre** · Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 10:34 pm Post subject:

Oh well, apart from the policy on Cannabis it's meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Rolling Eyes

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