If You Like Your Drug Policy, You Can Keep That Too!

By Alexandra D. Datig

Remember how the President promised if Americans like his or her health insurance plan, they can keep it under Obamacare?  Then it turned out millions of Americans were denied coverage from their own plan providers?  Only months after the President’s statement turned out to be false he does it again with a statement so shockingly against his own policy, it can only lead us to conclude that if Americans like his and her drug policy, they can keep that too! 

Make no mistake, President Obama’s recent statement in the New Yorker regarding drug legalization was a calculated attempt at persuading Americans to favor legalizing of drugs without coming right out and saying it, in conflict with his own policies as well as the Controlled Substances Act.   That is why he took the closet-legalizer approach by being careful to say to the New Yorker “if someone says” this or that, meaning he didn’t say it, yet he encourages drug legalization advocates to go-ahead and say it,… you know, wink-wink, sort of… LOL.    

Take for example his comments “if we can come up with a negotiated dose of cocaine.”  I am sober more than 15 years thank God, and just like the President who admitted to cocaine use in his book “Dreams From My Father” (1995), I too have used cocaine.  Knowing this, the President also knows that any cocaine user is aware, there is no such thing as a “negotiated dose of cocaine,” because to even a first-time user cocaine creates a fiendish craving for more.  A lot more.  Therefore, to suggest there is an acceptable dose of cocaine to a cocaine user is like saying there is an acceptable amount of gas to drive 1500 miles even though your gas tank that only holds 18 gallons.   It has also been scientifically documented that cocaine can create permanent unhealthy changes in the brain, even for first-time users.  The same goes for marijuana and many other drugs.  

Here’s where the calculation starts.  After making these remarks Americans should theoretically be thinking cocaine may be harmful, but wouldn’t it be safer if it were legal?  Would that make it “better” for cocaine addicts?  No one is talking about how we should curb use except drug prevention organizations who are seemingly falling on deaf ears.  To the President, however, that is not the point.  After all, Americans have a right to do what they want with his or her body, wink-wink... LOL.  Caveats of cocaine addiction and death should not be mentioned by the President of the United States?  Really folks, this is what it has come to.

The President also said, “if marijuana is fully legalized.”  With that statement he showed zero confidence in his own drug control strategy that speaks against the legalization of marijuana by which he is expected to lead the country!  What Americans should be asking is, if President Obama is no longer president, will marijuana be given the same nonchalant and casual leeway?  My immediate guess is, no, it will not, regardless of whether a Republican or a Democrat is occupying the White House.      

To his comments about marijuana not being as bad as alcohol?  Bad?  Is that the best he can do?  For a Harvard Law School graduate to use the word 'not as “bad”' seems plebian.   How about marijuana is not as impairing and intoxicating as alcohol, though it does impair the user’s ability to reason at times.   As a former member of the Choom Gang, the President also knows what it means to be an experienced marijuana user.  He likely knows how to self-dose and drive stoned.  He probably knows the difference between Indica and Sativa and likely has had his fair share of Maui-wowie when he lived in Hawaii.  Does that make his closer-legalizer approach more persuasive?

Sadly, the entire recreational marijuana movement is built on the premise of alcohol prohibition.  Instead of making a reasonable consumer-based argument, drug legalization advocates have taken a model of radicalized rebellion and personal right because, to quote the President, “marijuana is not as bad as alcohol.”  Like alcohol, marijuana is slowly being made legal by dividing communities with radicalized pro-drug propaganda and with his recent statements President Obama has shown he is in lock-step with the hoodwinking pro-drug lobby.

If there ever is a negotiated amount of legal meth as the President suggests in his interview with the New Yorker, he should be the first to try some right before he gives a State of the Union Address.  Maybe then Americans can decide if they think it is bad or "ok" or  not.  At the end of the day, we do need to figure out how to take the black market away from ruthless drug cartels.  By dividing Americans with conflicting drug laws and an outdated radicalized alcohol prohibition model to aim at legalization, the President is only doing what he knows how to do best.  Divide America by sounding like a crackpot.