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White House Dismisses Popular Marijuana Petitions
Late Friday evening the White House issued a typical evasive rejection of the few numbers of marijuana legalization petitions that collected more signatures than any other problem on its “We the People” website.newzwars.com
White House ‘Responds’ To Marijuana Legalization Petitions – Toke of the Town
The Obama Administration has officially “responded” to the “We The People” online petitions regarding marijuana legalization. Well, kind of — if you’re willing to dignify a bureaucrat mouthing the same old meaningless platitudes by calling that a “res…
Marijuana Question Zooms To The Top Of White House Poll On The First Day
A proposal to legalize and regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol zoomed to the top of the White House’s official online petition site on Thursday, the same day it was launched. The idea is the first on the site to get enough signatures to p…
Our Government Has No Real Interest In Studying Marijuana
Latest White House Drug Strategy Report Affirms Our Government Has No Real Interest In Actually Studying Marijuanablogs.alternet.org
“Kumar” goes from White House back to Hollywood
Nine months after leaving Hollywood for the White House, the actor Kal Penn is returning to Tinseltown to reprise his most famous role, as the marijuana-loving “Kumar” in the raucous “Harold and Kumar” feature film comedies.
The Drug Czar is Required by Law to Lie About Marijuana!
Posted by admin in Political News on January 13, 2010
Most people know that the “drug czar” — the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) — is an advocate for the government position regarding the drug war. But not everyone knows that he and his office are mandated to tell lies as part of their Congressional authorization.
Drug Czar Lies About AMA Policy to Reschedule Marijuana
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on December 17, 2009
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy has updated their information to reflect new policy from the American Medical Association, while at the same time actually leaving out that new policy.
I mean, if they’re going to do this, why don’t they simply make up a quote from the AMA?
The White House Lies About AMA Position
Posted by admin in Political News on December 16, 2009
What you’re seeing here is a blatant misrepresentation of the American Medical Association’s policy on marijuana. The ONDCP should be held accountable, and you can help do that by sending them an e-mail here.
Winds Of Marijuana Law Reform Rebuffed At White House
Posted by admin in Political News on November 26, 2009
Unfortunately, existing at the top of government management charts, are government employees who are still very resistant to any real degree of cannabis law reform, and who favor arresting cannabis consumers en mass rather than taxing them like the consumers of alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceutical products.
Cannibis / Marijuana: www.decriminalize.com
Posted by admin in Political News on November 15, 2009
Q. Since Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama have all smoked marijuana, why is it still illegal?
A. Campaign Contributions!
The US Congress and the White House Office of Drug Control Policy typically spend close to $100 million annually to produce and air advertisements stigmatizing the use of cannabis and its effects.
Medical Marijuana: The Drug Czar is Wrong (Again)
In its official response to the AMA’s recent call for a review of marijuana’s status as a Schedule I drug (barring any medical use) under federal law, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy stated that it would defer to “the FDA’s judgment that the raw marijuana plant cannot meet the standards for identity, strength, quality, purity
Research on Marijuana and other “Drugs” | Psychology Today
Posted by admin in World News on October 31, 2009
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy warning of the new, stronger strains of marijuana being produced get things not just wrong, but 180-degrees wrong. Claiming that this new, higher-potency marijuana increases the risks of respiratory problems, as the report does, is back-asswards, as they say
Pot & guns: The feds’ split personality on state sovereignty
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on October 21, 2009
The White House announced this week that the federal government will not interfere with state laws permitting medical marijuana use. That’s in stark contrast to the ATF’s insistence on enforcing federal laws regarding firearms in MT and TN, despite the fact that those states have passed laws exempting locally produced and traded firearms.
Dude, Where’s My Hemp?
Posted by admin in Political News on August 13, 2009
Droz said this was an example of the confusion between industrial hemp and marijuana, a “distant cousin also from the Cannabis family.”
So now what? Vote Hemp wants its fiber returned.
Oh, and they’d also like a beer at the White House.
Define “legalization” for President Obama
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on August 5, 2009
The White House drug czar keeps saying that legalization is not in the president’s vocabulary. In order for Pres. Obama to make an informed decision about marijuana policy, he’ll need to know that word.
Help put it into his vocabulary with our easy letter-writing tool.
‘Outlaw Mother’s Milk’ Says Drug Czar
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on July 24, 2009
After declaring on Wednesday in Fresno that, “marijuana is dangerous and has no medicinal benefit,” Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy said the next target will be, “the biggest gateway drug of all, mother’s milk.”
FINALLY! Targeting the true source of the drug problem, BIRTH!
Drug Czar: Feds Won’t Support Legalized Pot
Posted by admin in Political News on July 23, 2009
Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said the federal government will not support legalizing marijuana. “Legalization is not in the president’s vocabulary, and it’s not in mine,” he said. “Marijuana is dangerous and has no medicinal benefit,” Kerlikowske said while discussing an effort to eradicate…
People Voice Ideas to Obama Online: Legalize and Disclose!
Posted by admin in World News on June 23, 2009
The White House made its first major entree into government by the people last month when it set up an online forum to ask ordinary people for their ideas on how to carry out the president’s open-government pledge. It got an earful — on legalizing marijuana, revealing U.F.O. secrets and verifying Mr. Obama’s birth certificate.
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