From Firedoglake:
When Barack Obama ran for president he promised to respect the states’ medical marijuana laws. But since tak ing office Obama has been steadily using more and more parts of the federal government to wage a war on medical marijuana.
His Administration’s actions as of late have become so aggressively anti-medical marijuana that the Drug Policy Alliance has recently labeled Obama as worse than George W. Bush ever was towards medical marijuana.
Besides being a total waste of money, this is both bad politics and bad policy. Where is the upside for Obama? Does he really think anyone who favors his policy would be likely to vote for him primarily because he is against medical marijuana. This gets him no votes, but it is yet another turnoff for his early supporters, who won’t likely vote for his opponent, but might not bother to vote at all.
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