Bush drug warrior crashes pot press conference

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bush_drug_warrior_crashes_pot_press_0730.html

Nick Juliano
Published: Wednesday July 30, 2008


President Bush's drug warriors must really, really want to protect their ability to throw non-violent marijuana users in jail.

The White House sent at least three party crashers to a press conference Wednesday with Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), who has introduced a pot-decriminalization bill.

The Office of National Drug Control Policy's "chief scientist" and two aides who were dispatched to provide instant rebuttal to Frank and the bill's cosponsors, all of whom acknowledged that marijuana was likely to remain very much illegal in the foreseeable future.

[Fovea]

1. Pot is unpatriotic.

It's grown by Liberals.

We spread democracy in Afghanistan when be buy Smack.

Buy Heroin for Victory!

:sarcasm:

[JuniperLea]

2. Lobbyists for Big Pharma...

Are probably all over this.

[Submariner]

3. One would think that an alcoholic cokehead like Bush would let the tokers

slide for harmless weed use. This punk has no mercy.

[notadmblnd]

4. it's just that the marijuana industry isn't centralized enough

for the BFEE to corner the market on it.

[Fovea]

6. It is at the core of the culture war

it is associated with hippies, liberals, sex, and rock and roll.

Without it's prohibition, the emotional core of fear of the unknown is at risk. And without that xenophobia, could the executive branch coup even sustained past 2001, never mind 2004?

I refer to marijuana prohibition as the keystone that bridges racism with social control.

It is part of what the law and order right says to the rank and file to recruit them for more jihad. We won't let your daughter smoke pot.

[Kaleko]

10. Well said.

Another layer of deception is that the "war on drugs" also is essentially a war on hallucinogens, IOW, mind-expanding substances. Can't have the peasants expand their horizons and see through the Matrix, can we? That would be dangerous if your real goal is social control.

[defendandprotect]

5. Such a response looks more to me like they understand that we're getting

closer and breathing down their necks on this ---

too many people, however, still don't understand how the Drug War threatens them and

their children ---

Everyone who wants to see marijuana legalized should support one of the organizations ---

mpp.com is one excellent one ---!!!

[ngant17]

7. mpp.org is the site

which I think you are referring to.

[defendandprotect]

8. Thank you -- good organization ---

[RNdaSilva]

11. The link...

http://mpp.org/

[gatorboy]

9. "chief scientist"

If Bush hired him that means his last job was probably at a Denny's

[HCE SuiGeneris]

12. The "war on drugs" is nothing more than a profit center for the criminals in charge of

its "mitigation". It's only about money. Nothing else matters to these fuckheads.