420 Policies and Laws

[Ansel]

I don't know i just feel vaping is less/not addictive and much healthier for those that may be predisposed to problems from smoking it, just my opinion. I love the stuff personally.

[BadAxe]

i was thinking more for mental health not physical health

I don't understand. Why would smoking it be worse for your mental health than vaping it? And even still, its not up to the gov't to govern my health. And there are so few health negatives when it comes to MJ anyway. People just can't let the false facts about MJ go, and still lok at it as bad, even in the face of all the studies being done that prove its actually pretty GOOD for you. Smiking anything is bad, not because of what you are smoking but because of the carcinogens created by buring the substance. Take that away (but not by law) and there is very little bad about MJ. I won't say ALL, but very little. I have been an exclusive vape guy now for almost 2 years. Before that, I was a 4 to 5 times a day smoker for over 20 years. I can't even begin to figure out how much I have smoked in my life time. I have had zero health effects from it. Not physically, nor mentally.

[Ansel]

While I am a vaper, and agree its much healthier, why would you say "Smoking it, not so sure". I mean, sure, smoking it is the most unhealthy way of using MJ, but why should it be the gov't job to tell me how healthy or unhealthy I can be? Its only my life i am effecting by smoking something. That doesn't effect anyone else, and it should not be any gov't job to govern my health. If someone wants to live as unhealthy a life as possible, isn't that their perogative? Shouldn't that be their choice?

i was thinking more for mental health not physical health

[BadAxe]

Vaporizing it should be legal all around the World. As for smoking it i'm not so sure.

While I am a vaper, and agree its much healthier, why would you say "Smoking it, not so sure". I mean, sure, smoking it is the most unhealthy way of using MJ, but why should it be the gov't job to tell me how healthy or unhealthy I can be? Its only my life i am effecting by smoking something. That doesn't effect anyone else, and it should not be any gov't job to govern my health. If someone wants to live as unhealthy a life as possible, isn't that their perogative? Shouldn't that be their choice?

[Ansel]

Vaporizing it should be legal all around the World. As for smoking it i'm not so sure.

[Crow]

[Crow]

Statement from Steve Fox, director of government relations for the Marijuana Policy Project, the nation’s largest marijuana policy reform organization and the primary funder of the successful Colorado initiative:

"The president has acknowledged that it should not be a priority of the federal government to arrest marijuana users. The only question left is whether these users should purchase marijuana in a state-regulated market or from drug cartels. The people of Colorado and Washington clearly expressed their desire for a regulated market.

"Now it is time for those states and the Obama administration to determine how to work together to advance that state-based system without frustrating legitimate federal interests. We look forward to having this conversation with White House and Department of Justice officials."

[Crow]

[GoVegan]

"We have bigger fish to fry" seems like an elusive answer to me.

[Crow]

There's a reason we have a cannabis thread

http://www.snuson.com/forum/showthre...l=1#post495051

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Thanks for sharing anyways, Joe

[crullers]

Wow, politicians making sense. How refreshing!

[OregonNative]

Amen! Thanks for the post Cascadian brother.

I couldn't agree with Obama more. Go after meth, it's the real threat to our communities.

[Joe234]

Obama on Marijuana Laws: We Have "Bigger Fish to Fry"

President Obama says federal law enforcement agencies have "bigger fish to fry" than to go after marijuana users in Colorado and Washington, the two states that legalized the drug's use in November.

http://www.bet.com/news/politics/201...-priority.html

[Ansel]

[Crow]

Obama won't go after legal pot users in Washington, Colorado

President Obama says he won't go after Washington state and Colorado for legalizing marijuana.

WASHINGTON —

In an interview with ABC News, President Obama told Barbara Walters that recreational pot smoking in states that have legalized the drug is not a major concern for his administration.

"We've got bigger fish to fry," Obama said of marijuana smokers in Colorado and Washington, the two states where recreational use is now legal under state law, but where uncertainty remained over how the federal government would view the matter.

"It would not make sense for us to see a top priority as going after recreational users in states that have determined that it's legal," he said.

Under Obama, the Drug Enforcement Administration has aggressively gone after medical marijuana dispensaries in California, where they are legal. In September, federal officials raided several Los Angeles shops and sent warnings to many more.

"This is a tough problem, because Congress has not yet changed the law," Obama told Walters of the legalization in Colorado and Washington. "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?"

Backers of new laws that legalized marijuana in Washington and Colorado were cautiously optimistic after President Barack Obama said Uncle Sam wouldn't pursue pot users in those states.

Following the November votes in Washington and Colorado the Justice Department reiterated that marijuana remains illegal under federal law, but had been vague about what its specific response would be.

Marijuana activists were relieved at Obama's comments, but had questions about how regulation will work. They said even if individual users aren't charged with crimes, marijuana producers and sellers could be subject to prosecution, civil forfeiture and other legal roadblocks.

Attorney General Eric Holder said in a speech Wednesday that he would announce a policy on the new state laws "relatively soon."

The president, who smoked pot often in high school, told Walters that he does not support general legalization "at this point." It's the same position he's taken throughout his political career, despite his own history.

"There are a bunch of things I did that I regret when I was a kid," Obama told Walters. "My attitude is, substance abuse generally is not good for our kids, not good for our society."

Material from The Associated Press was also used in the report.

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