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NOW is the TIME to make YOUR VOICE HEARD federally!
Obama’s transition team has established a website, asking for “our ideas” and “help” to “solve the biggest challenges facing our country.” Unfortunately, neither the ‘war on drugs’ nor ‘marijuana’ appears on the “the agenda.”

It’s up to us — the cannabis community — to make it part of the agenda.

change.gov/page/s/ofthepeople

Please contact the Office of President Elect Obama and demand that our next President engages in a national dialogue on marijuana policy. Below are three suggested ways Obama can take immediate, practical steps to reform America’s antiquated and punitive pot laws:

1. President Obama must uphold his campaign promise to cease the federal arrest and prosecution of (state) law-abiding medical cannabis patients and dispensaries by appointing leaders at the US Drug Enforcement Administration, the US Department of Justice, and the US Attorney General’s office who will respect the will of the voters in the thirteen states that have legalized the physician-supervised use of medicinal marijuana.

2. President Obama should use the power of the bully pulpit to reframe the drug policy debate from one of criminal policy to one of public health. Obama can stimulate this change by appointing directors to the Office of National Drug Control Policy who possess professional backgrounds in public health, addiction, and treatment rather than in law enforcement.

3. President Obama should follow up on statements he made earlier in his career in favor of the decriminalization of marijuana by adults by calling for the creation of a bi-partisan Presidential Commission to review the budgetary, social, and health costs associated with federal marijuana prohibition, and to make progressive recommendations for future policy changes.

On Election Day, voters in Massachusetts, Michigan, and throughout the country gave President Elect Obama and the incoming Congress a mandate to end the Bush drug war doctrine. Now let’s get down to business to assure that our message is implemented.


Please re post at all cannabis boards everywhere......enough is enough

:mrgr een:

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This is all a long way off. Obama backed off from his decriminalizaton views awhile ago probably to appease reefer madness believers. Business is business hes gotta win the election. or he did. Besides, he has alot more important things to worry about then weed right now were a country at war and we have huge economic issues. He will probably end federal raids on MMJ patients but if we see any strives towards decriminalization or legalization it will be in his second term, because if he did it in his first term he would lose alot of votes from reefer madness believers when he runs for re-elect. Keep up the effort tho I will also.

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"Good Men must not obey the laws to well"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If he just ended the MMJ raids that would be a huge step......and a great one.

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agreed. but yea im not tryin to be pessimistic im just tryin to be realistic. I want mary jane to be legal... badly.

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"Good Men must not obey the laws to well"

Ralph Waldo Emerson