Day 71: Marijuana Mishap

Niklas — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:58:24 +0000

After earlier in his career having stated he believed in decriminalization of Marijuana use, he made a major faux pas recently in an interactive town hall meeting that has created major waves in the online community. To be fair, dissing the entire “online audience” which is exactly the same crowd that raised half a billion dollars to put him where he is, was pretty dumb.

‘There was one question that was voted on that ranked fairly high (sic, it was actually the number 1 question) and that was whether legalizing marijuana would improve the economy and job creation, and I don’t know what this says about the online audience,’ Mr. Obama said, drawing a laugh. He said he wanted to make sure the question got answered. ‘The answer is no, I don’t think that was a good strategy.’

The mistake followed by comments by a Hardvard professor and Ron Paul:

Transcript of the meeting

Day 21: Obama considers Seattle police chief to head so-called “Drug War”.

Paul -V- — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:18:47 +0000

Pot smokers in Seattle, WA may have to wave a fond, hazy, farewell to their Police Chief: Gil Kerlikowske. Apparently, Obama plans to recruit him to head up the war on certain drugs.

Kerlikowske, who has led the department for more than eight years, has told the department’s top commanders he expects to leave to take a top federal position, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they aren’t officially authorized to disclose the information.

Story at Seattle Times

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Day 71: Marijuana Mishap

Day 21: Obama considers Seattle police chief to head so-called “Drug War”.