Ethan Nadelmann’s Analysis of Pres. Obama’s Marijuana Legalization Interview
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DPA’s Executive Director Ethan Nadelmann offers his analysis of President Obama’s first significant comments on marijuana legalization since the election.
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Use a freak’n tri pod.
Ethan Nadelmann i have seen you debate people on cannabis and you always kick ass keep up the good work
Ignoring the fact that the US are responsible for prohibition and the war on drugs in the first place.
Boo. Facial hair is awesome.
Cannabis prohibition is a world wide historic mistake………
Thank you from give just about the only non pessimistic view that I have heard on the POTUS statements, the negativity bias in the legalization movement is understandable but I think very much unwarranted in this case.
I’ll believe its not a priority when I see it, Obama said something similar about medical cannabis in 2008, saying that busting medusers was not a priority for his administration or federal law enforcement, but he still cracked the whip on dispensaries. So he might not go after individual users, but I would be willing to bet that a few months after widespread commercial sales start he’ll start cracking the whip on legal growers and sellers.He left the door wide open for that.
So what’s your point? It was Richard Nixon who started it, it’s the American people who are ending it.
If only they understood the weight of this prohibition on Latin American countries…Ethan, go to congress with plane tickets to Nuevo Laredo, Rio de Janeiro, tell them to come here and see for themselves whats going on because of their omission in this issue, if they come back alive their minds would be changed, Im sure of that.
I don’t get how you can be not ready to support human rights issues. It seams like it should be clear cut- you either support it or you don’t. It is not like he is ignorant.
stfu who tf are you
Regardless of whether or not it is legal at a Federal level, people are going to smoke it and grow it! Perhaps the feds should pack it in, cause they are on the losing team!
Proud to be an American for the first time in years….
Obama needs to go. Ron Paul
I wish you were president !
Its just crazy, playing both sides, when all we want is the freedom to put what we want in our own bodies without big brother punishing us for it. We need more strong voices such as our Ethan. We all need to get out and take action, on every level. More voices = more of a chance of a real change. Stay Motivated!!
what happens when the federal law is unconstitutional?
Mustache without beard is for porn stars and cops!!!! Ethan should know better.
great analysis Ethan! On the money!
The fucking prick president said yesterday “marijuana users in states where they legalized will not be top priority”, thats the typical trailing off response a person who doesn’t give a fuck, a tyrant, would give, Im not very optimistic.
Thank you for your expert analysis.
The US ATTY in WA said that she wanted businesses to be able tooperate within the state law.
THe dispensaries that were closed here were the ones where the people were posting videos or images of themselves, and who were selling to unauthorized individuals. The ones that were playing by the rules have been left to stay in business.
There are many that have survived for quite some time now. It’s an industry that’s not leaving, and the Obama admin knows it. It will be a delicate process.
Big Pharma’s jumping at how much cash they can roll-up on making it legal.
our government doesn’t actually represent us and they could give a crap what we want. Obama came out for gay marriage to give ONE thing of difference between him and the Republicans. The Feds bring in the drugs. The feds sell the drugs and make huge money. They bust chumps who use it and toss them into the prison industrial complex to work for raytheon, lockheed, starbucks for half the price of chinese labor. get one thing straight obama is a douche -not your friend
Obama is a great politician, but a terrible leader. Keep up the good work Ethan, you’re doing a great job.
BIG THANK YOU TO AMERICA! You guys have started the landslide, and there’s no turning back now. I’m confident that you guys will have nation-wide legalisation before long. That will embarrass our cretinous leadership (David Cameron) in the UK who don’t even have the balls to face the issue, despite EVERY commission they make coming back and saying all drugs need legalisation or decriminalisation to end the idiotic war on drugs.
And cant federal laws be changed??
we are tired of talking!
2 states have voiced the opinion of millions.
end the drug war
obama is not concerned with legalization because he doesn’t want to be the first black president AND the first president to end cannabis prohibition. it would seem too cliche. wake up barack no one cares just do what is best!!!!
Genesis 1:29 READ THE TRUTH
Shave the stache! Every man makes the mistake at some point. It’s just a matter of admitting it to yourself.
Otherwise, you gotta understand that Obama takes a long view on issues. He doesn’t make abrupt changes, and he builds a set of supports for any move he makes in the future.
He spent his whole first term developing policies that would be nearly impossible to attack, because they were so similar to things that had already been suggested.
And personally I dont trust a word out of that liar … umm whats his REAL name???
Who the fuck are you?