$MJ President Obama Voices Support For Decriminalizing Marijuana Thor Benson November 29, 2016
President Obama said he supports decriminalizing marijuana in a new interview with Rolling Stone.
He said marijuana use should be treated like a health issue, and he pointed out that legalization has a lot of support in the United States.
“If you survey the American people, including Trump voters, they’re…in favor, in large numbers, of decriminalizing marijuana…
I do believe that treating this as a public-health issue, the same way we do with cigarettes or alcohol, is the much smarter way to deal with it…
As you might imagine, the DEA, whose job it is historically to enforce drug laws, is not always going to be on the cutting edge about these issues…
It is untenable over the long term for the Justice Department or the DEA to be enforcing a patchwork of laws, where something that’s legal in one state could get you a 20-year prison sentence in another.
So this is a debate that is now ripe, much in the same way that we ended up making progress on same-sex marriage.” (cont'd)
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