Is the Obama honeymoon over yet?
WARNING: Following post contains terrible grammar but I don’t care enough to re-write it for the umpteenth time.
Obama has already proven himself to be enough of a tool by attempting to hide the torture photos. For more on Obama’s intense stupidity and how he gets off the hook for being a misogynist asshat, I recommend reading Dr. Violet Socks. But he has really gone and stepped in it now! A very good friend of mine sent me an email linking to this article on Huff Po entitled “Something you’d like”.
As he is a fellow drug policy reformer, I figured that perhaps it was an article about Mr. President Obama handing out joints at a local medical marijuana dispensary. Or maybe he was releasing all of the drug war prisoners out of jail and immediately erasing all their criminal records. I would even settle for a youtube of Arnold Schwarzenegger on CNN demanding that his favorite plant be recognized as the medicine that it is.
A marijuana plant in every pot!
But alas, I clicked the link and all I got was the same old tepid lukewarm BS baby-steps towards drug policy reform that we have seen before and will see again. The Governator wants to talk about drug policy. Big deal. What is there to talk about? The drug war is a failure. We already know that.
One of the President’s Henchmen told the Wall Street Journal that he wants to get away from the idea that the U.S. is fighting a “war on drugs.” So what? Does he actually want to quit fighting the war on drugs or does he want to win the propaganda war? Should we call it a disagreement on drugs instead while Mexico gets torn up by more violence and more people rot in jail for smoking a plant?
Call me cranky and demanding all you want, but I want, expect and demand a lot more before I start strewing rose-petals in the path of all these big-talk, do-nothing politicians. Kerlikowske even states outright that he doesn’t support efforts to legalize drugs. He’s a fracking tool, I tell you! A tool of the patriarchy as well as a tool of the racist, classist war on some people who use some drugs. Obama found his number in the Big Book of Drug Warriors. Obama wants to spend even more money on drug enforcement than Bush, if Huff Po is to be believed. (Huff Po had Jim Carey write a science article, so their credibility is immediately suspect.) Norm Stamper says repeal drug prohibition so at least Huff Po got one thing right.
I won’t be happy until everyone can grow, sell or share whatever plant they want without the government’s interference. Anything less than that is bupkis.
May 21st, 2009 at 10:38 am
Go! Go! Go! Tear down the walls of oppression that are built with our tax dollars and do nothing but cause harm.
Free the weed!