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.

President Obama’s Passive-Agressive Approach To Drug Policy Is Destroying America

By Alexandra D. Datig 

The National Drug Control Strategy of 2010, signed by the President of the United States, clearly states that the President of the Unite States, Barack Obama was firmly opposed to the legalization of marijuana for recreational use.  But look what a second term as President can bring.  Silence to get more votes in Colorado and Washington State?  Muzzling of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein who was once clearly publicly outspoken against the legalization of marijuana?  Statements like “we need to learn more about medical marijuana” while at the same time shutting down countless marijuana dispensaries all across the nation?  An Attorney General who can’t make up his mind on mandatory minimum sentencing for what he calls “non-violent” drug offenders?    A passive-agressive approach to drug policy perhaps? 

Recently, President of the United States Barack Obama made the following statement.  "If marijuana is fully legalized and at some point folks say, well, ‘We can come up with a negotiated dose of cocaine that we can show is not any more harmful than vodka,’ are we open to that?" Obama wondered. "If somebody says, ‘We've got a finely calibrated dose of meth, it isn't going to kill you or rot your teeth,’ are we O.K. with that?"  Maybe we should begin by asking the various nations the United States has signed drug treaties with?  Does the President even realize that the U.S. is now in violation of several international treaties due to drug decriminalization in various states?  The zero-tolerance approach to drugs in the U.S. has certainly taken its toll on the prohibition of drugs, especially marijuana.  When searching a little deeper, legalization of marijuana would also cost police department’s vast amounts of money because legalization would also change and void asset forfeiture laws.  But then again, we already know the President plans to make up the difference by taxing the rich and aiming for single-payer universal healthcare with Obamacare. 

Off in the distance, somewhere in Northern California, members of a Mexican drug cartel have set up shop on public land to grow marijuana.  Destroying the eco-systems by creating dams to divert water for their crops, they use toxic and dangerous pesticides in the form of “edible” pellets that kill birds and they shoot the deer that like the taste of marijuana leaves.   Even bears are attracted to the site from the scent of food in the grower camp and when they come near, are shot dead.  To pass the time, dead bears and deer become trophies and the growers like taking pictures next to their kill, posing as if he just won a giant stuffed animal at a family carnival.  

They have guns and knives and have no hesitation using them when they spot other drug gangs or cops  in the area.  Gunfire from black market growers has sparked many spot and even wildfires.  When a rival cartel is spotted, drug gangs have also been known to detonate small bombs to smoke each other out. 

Depending on light and growing conditions they stay at the site about 100 days.  That is usually the turn around period it takes for a crop to reach harvest and acceptable drying conditions.  When they are finished, they leave trash and toxic waste behind and the eco-system to fend for itself.  All they care about now is turning the marijuana into fast cash to anyone willing to pay the asking price on the street.  Legalization of marijuana has made things easier for Cartels that have also been caught working with marijuana doctors.  

Meanwhile in Los Angeles, the City is fighting to shut down over one thousand marijuana dispensaries because people are abusing medical marijuana laws.  Instead of buying from the cartels and drug gangs, patrons seeking recreational marijuana in California, find him and herself claiming false illness to obtain a doctor’s recommendation to legally obtain marijuana under state but not federal law.   These recreational users would rather lie than buy marijuana from a drug gang and many believe by doing so they are engaging in a noble cause by choosing to buy pot from a regulated lawful source.  The question is, can we truly call these people criminals and lawbreakers knowing the alternative of how drug cartels operate to get drugs onto America’s streets?

Americans have chosen to use marijuana long before the question of drug legalization became a daily topic in the news.  Politically, legalization for recreational use has been before voters for more than 41 years.

According to the latest Gallup poll, 58% of Americans now believe marijuana should be legalized.  Evaluating the risks of introducing marijuana as a recreational drug into the legal market has proven roads would be more dangerous, on-the-job accidents more prevalent and has shown that teenage use dramatically increases.  Do these factors prevent us from stopping drug cartels and drug gangs who push marijuana on citizens that have no clue where the pot he or she is buying came from, or what is in it?

Let’s face it, there are those among us who have decided that at one time or another marijuana will become a recreational habit.  One we can take or leave alone.  I have yet to see a pro-drug group outspoken about drug addiction so that we can curb drug abuse.  That is simply not the intention of the drug lobby and apparently it is also not the intention of President Obama.  

Being sober more than 15 years I can say I have already had my fair share and in my case, it didn’t increase the quality of my life.  Therefore, I don’t use pot or anything else unless I am so ordered by my physician and even then I may not use what is prescribed.  Yet I also know that I am not like everyone else and that people have a right to choose what to put in his or her body.  People have a civil right to want their own experience with marijuana whether it benefits the quality of life or not and they are exercising that right whether we like it or not.  As it stands, the only thing can prevent these choices is the law, which condemns and outcasts drug users, taking away quality of life and liberty.  

It is pretty likely that within the next two years more than half the country will have states with medical marijuana laws.  In other words folks, the train has left the station and there is no point in chasing the train down the tracks trying to reverse the irreversible.  That means the national poll numbers are likely to increase, especially when looking at polling trends of favoritism toward the decriminalization of marijuana in the last ten years.  A tragedy?  Yes, because the movement, like President Obama, is aimless and wants not just to legalize drugs but also to liberalize them.   

Therefore, the question we should be asking is no longer if pot should be legal.  But rather, are we going about legalization in the right way?  Are drug policy advocates selling a reckless agenda and succeeding just to get their foot in their door?  Is America going to keep falling for the same arguments of back-door marijuana legalization by getting states to jump on the bandwagon with medical marijuana laws?   Or are we going to get smart about this issue and figure out a way to get control of it?

Starting at the top with the President of the United States, we are increasingly no longer a nation that wants to get tough on drugs or drug users.  If legalization methods and polling trends continue, it is quite possible that marijuana and even other drugs will be legal for recreational use within the next five to ten years.  Without clarity and leadership from the Commander in Chief, the chaos with conflicting drug laws in America’s communities is only going to continue.  We either find a way to create clear drug policy and create a safe and regulated market or we make the on-going free-fall liberalization of drugs worse.  

SNL Skit: President Obama Addresses Mandela Memorial Interpreter

TBAC - Roger Morgan: Obama/Holder Serving Soros, Republic Enemy Number One

By Roger Morgan, Take Back America Campaign

Obama, faced with his “redline” declaration, is about to bomb Syria to avenge the 1500 people who were heinously gassed to death in Syria. 

How about, Mr. President, we Americans “redline” you for turning your back on America’s drug problem, even perpetuating the problem by ignoring your obligation to enforce federal CSA laws.  Almost all of the 1500 Americans who die every two weeks started their drug journey with marijuana.  While you punish Assad, maybe America should punish you.

The reality is America has been hijacked by Republic enemy number one, master of subversion, billionaire, sociopath Drug Lord George Soros.  Soros hates America, and is the principle financier behind the pro-legalization movement, and Obama’s campaign.  Soros’ purpose is designed to destroy a significant percentage of our population to help fulfill his messianic vision of a new world order. Unfortunately, due to the corruptive powers of his money, he controls the President, the press and the Democratic Party. 

Obama’s first act was to downgrade the Drug Czar position from cabinet level to reporting to the Vice President, a nice buffer so he wouldn’t have to face America’s biggest problem directly.  The result was we ended up with two national drug policies: 1) Drug Czar Kerlikowske’s official national drug policy, for political cover, and 2) Holder’s “do nothing” policy in terms of enforcing federal law. The result is a 15 to 20% increase in marijuana use, and an unenlightened nation being led down the path of destruction by legalization efforts for a drug that causes permanent damage to adolescent brains, and myriad other adverse outcomes.

Marijuana doesn’t kill by overdose, but overdose isn’t the only cause of death.  Marijuana is a causal factor in psychosis, including schizophrenia, paranoia and suicidal depression.  It is a major factor in armed robberies, violent crime, traffic deaths, testicular cancer, respiratory problems including cancer of the head, neck, throat and lungs, just to mention a few.

The mass shootings of late, like Tucson, Aurora, the Pentagon and more are a result of marijuana induced psychosis.  Even the Boston Bombers were both pot heads.  Marijuana isn’t the only cause of psychosis, but it is a major cause.  And rather than find resources to treat it and shovel up the damage, we should be preventing it to begin with.

Nationally 53% to 87% of arrestees test positive for drugs.  The average addict commits 100 crimes a year.  America has declined to 26^th in the world academically, with a one-third drop out rate.  Each drop out carries a life time cost of $392,000 … which equates to $470 billion per annum considering we have 1.2 million dropouts. 

In August 2012 research at U of Texas San Antonio revealed that today’s high potency pot can kill a baby in the womb within two weeks of conception, before the mother even knows she is pregnant.  Research from 40 or 50 years ago showed marijuana caused still births to ruse from 12% normal to 44%.  Babies that survived child birth often had physical deformities and brain damage.  What’s worse, because of mutations to sperm the problem could result from the male partner, and because it led to chromosomal abnormalities, it was mutagenic, which meant the problem could leap one generation and effect the next. 

Obama’s administration REFUSED to issue a health alert.  Of course that was pre election. How many babies have died, and/or will die, because Obama is serving Soros instead of the American people? 

By doing nothing, Obama has intentionally allowed the proliferation of “medical hoax marijuana,” to spread to 21 states, and marijuana use to grow by 15 to 20%.   Now he and Holder have arrogantly condoned recreational use of marijuana in Colorado and Washington, in direct contradiction to the federal laws they are expected to uphold

Drugs, starting with marijuana, kill, destroy and inflict more economic harm on America than all events in modern history.  If the Commander-In-Chief is unwilling or incapable of fulfilling his oath of office to protect the American people, then it is time to replace him with someone who will.

More at:  www.tbac.us

The Hill: White House: Obama Not Ready to Back Legalized Marijuana

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that President Obama does not "at this point advocate a change" in how marijuana is classified, despite believing that targeting individual pot smokers was "not the best allocation for federal law enforcement resources."

"The priority in terms of the dedication of law enforcement resources should be targeted toward our drug kingpins, drug traffickers and others who perpetrate violence in the conduct of the drug trade," Earnest told reporters.  The statement comes as Colorado and Washington await word on how the Justice Department will respond to passage of laws in each state that legalize the sale of marijuana. The practice is banned under the federal Controlled Substances Act.  

It also follows a column earlier this month from CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, who apologized for dismissing the medicinal benefits of the drug. Gupta was widely reported as under consideration for nomination as surgeon general after President Obama's election in 2008, before ultimately removing his name from consideration.  “We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that,” Gupta wrote.

Earnest said he was not sure whether Obama would be willing to take administrative steps to make it easier to conduct medical tests of marijuana.  "I'm not exactly sure steps are required or what changes could be implemented into the law to have an impact on marijuana research," he said.  But the White House spokesman wryly acknowledged that the subject garnered lots of interest.  "For some reason I have the sneaking suspicion that this is going to draw me all kinds of traffic on Twitter," Earnest quipped.

Source:  www.thehill.com 

New Pew Poll Flawed, President Obama too busy Brewing Beer in the White House to Enforce his own Policies on Opposing Marijuana Legalization

By Alexandra D. Datig

The new poll regarding marijuana legalization, released today by the Pew Research Center, shows a blatant disregard from the Obama Administration and does not accurately reflect the sentiment of the American people.  We have more than 300 million citizens living in the U.S. and the Pew Research Center’s poll, which reflects the opinion of 1,501 persons polled, is unlikely to be the opinion of an entire country!  Pew Research should try to poll communities who have had to ban marijuana dispensaries in states where marijuana is legal under state but not federal law.  Clearly, Pew has chosen their “sampling” to serve a desired outcome. 

Given the fact that the Obama Administration is also not taking a frontline approach to preventing drug use, it is no surprise the country has lost the President’s ability to lead on this issue.  Various news publications are using the new Pew poll to sway public opinion right into the hands of a liberal agenda, silencing the voice of all the American people, while playing into the hands of liberal campaign donors. 

Citizens and advocates who have made sacrifices and worked hard to help enforce the Obama Administration’s policies on opposing marijuana legalization are being baited and switched!  The President’s deafening silence is dismissive of those he counted on in his first term, who now seem no less than irrelevant to him.  United States Attorney General Eric Holder, who has made several statements regarding corrective action by the Department of Justice, regarding marijuana legalization initiatives in Colorado and Washington State, has also been missing in action! 

Currently, marijuana is being sold to voters as “safer than alcohol” while the marijuana lobby has partnered with the alcohol industry in Colorado and Washington State, in an effort to plan a regulated federally illegal marijuana market.  In the meantime, President Barack Obama has his own brewery at the White House.  What’s next?  The Obama version of Billy Beer?

News Flash: Obama's Own Drug Czar Is Now Publicly Criticizing Him for Not Responding to Legal Pot in Colorado and Washington

Office of National Drug Control Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske—Obama's own drug czar—says his boss's administration "has not done a particularly good job of talking about...where we should be headed on our drug policy." 

Full Article: Reason.com

U.S. Drug Czar Addresses White House Petitioners about Marijuana Legalization

I really like Director Kerlikowske.  He has recognized people in recovery as part of the National Drug Control Strategy and I think he has been an effective and honestly outspoken leader regarding his opposition to the legalization of marijuana.  

In his official response to various petitions, he has had no choice but to give a fragmented response from the Obama Administration, because our President cannot or will not speak to the American people as a leader on this issue,  an issue he wanted to highlight during his presidency.  By now, the President knows that a good politician always waits for his entry point on a widely important issue.  I'm afraid the President has missed that entry point. 

Sadly, Director Kerlikowske only has casual comments the President made to Barbara Walters to refer to as a response, which is not an official response.  I feel for our Drug Czar.  He is trying so hard to do the right thing for America.

Bellow is Director Kerlikowske's official response to White House petitioners: 

"Thank you for participating in We the People and speaking out on the legalization of marijuana. Coming out of the recent election, it is clear that we're in the midst of a serious national conversation about marijuana. 

At President Obama's request, the Justice Department is reviewing the legalization initiatives passed in Colorado and Washington, given differences between state and federal law. In the meantime, please see a recent interview with Barbara Walters in which President Obama addressed the legalization of marijuana.

Barbara Walters:

Do you think that marijuana should be legalized?

President Obama:  

Well, I wouldn't go that far.  But what I think is that, at this point, Washington and Colorado, you've seen the voters speak on this issue.  And as it is, the federal government has a lot to do when it comes to criminal prosecutions.  It does not make sense from a prioritization point of view for us to focus on recreational drug users in a state that has already said that under state law that's legal.

…this is a tough problem because Congress has not yet changed the law.  I head up the executive branch; we're supposed to be carrying out laws.  And so what we're going to need to have is a conversation about how do you reconcile a federal law that still says marijuana is a federal offense and state laws that say that it's legal.

When you're talking about drug kingpins, folks involved with violence, people are who are peddling hard drugs to our kids in our neighborhoods that are devastated, there is no doubt that we need to go after those folks hard… it makes sense for us to look at how we can make sure that our kids are discouraged from using drugs and engaging in substance abuse generally.  There is more work we can do on the public health side and the treatment side.

Gil Kerlikowske is Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy

Source:  www.whitehouse.gov