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FrankRep
09-28-2010, 10:03 AM
Kevin Sabet, special adviser for policy at the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, is a firm believer in the federal government’s authority to regulate drugs and seems to assume it has always regulated them. by Michael Tennant


Federal Official Won’t Have Voters Deciding Drug Policy (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/crime/4717-federal-official-wont-have-voters-deciding-drug-policy)


Michael Tennant | The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
Tuesday, 28 September 2010

pcosmar
09-28-2010, 10:55 AM
Yet another one that needs to find himself unemployed.
:(

libertarian4321
09-28-2010, 10:55 AM
Unfortunately, this is the way "drug warriors", Feds, and social conservatives think- that they the right to decide what is best for you.

newyearsrevolution08
09-28-2010, 10:56 AM
by force?

nope

good luck feds


they are like bullies

at first its easy

then people start fighting back

then you realize you really aren't that tough after all

PLUS there are more of us then there are of them

Dr.3D
09-28-2010, 10:57 AM
Well, they can't have the mundane deciding what they should eat, drink or smoke can they?

Silly mundanes.

:rolleyes:

torchbearer
09-28-2010, 10:57 AM
Yet another one that needs to find himself unemployed.
:(

for the amount of crimes this guy has overseen, and vicariously has executed against peaceful, natural law abiding citizens, he should be imprisoned or hanged by the neck until dead.

phill4paul
09-28-2010, 11:00 AM
And his sentiments are echoed through out the bureaucratic world on every level regarding every thing.

surf
09-28-2010, 12:11 PM
Sabet “said he believes medical marijuana programs are part of a strategy to legalize marijuana, and that the Obama administration is staunchly opposed to legalization.”

change you can believe in....

this is another shot at CA and prop 19 to intimidate voters to vote no.

it's also a warning shot directed toward Washington, CO, and any other states that will have decriminalization bills on the ballot next year and years to come.

drug czar Kerlikowske was a former Seattle Police Chief - and if you remember how Seattle Cops have been in the news lately for killing whittlers, beating young jaywalkers, and stomping on the heads of cuffed minorities (not to mention the Fat Tuesday incident a few years back), then you are not surprised by this.
In 2003, a ballot measure in Seattle was proposed that would have directed the police department to consider marijuana possession (for personal use) a low priority. Kerlikowske opposed the ballot initiative, but said such arrests were already a low priority.



On May 13, 2009, Kerlikowske signaled that the Obama Administration would no longer use the term "War on Drugs", as it is counter-productive and it would demonstrate a favoring of treatment over incarceration in trying to reduce drug use.[15]

In a May 22, 2009 interview on KUOW radio, he said any drug 'legalization' would be "waving the white flag" and that "legalization is off the the charts when it comes to discussion, from my viewpoint" and that "legalization vocabulary doesn't exist for me and it was made clear that it doesn't exist in President Obama's vocabulary." Specifically about marijuana, he said, "It's a dangerous drug" and about the medical use of marijuana, he said, "we will wait for evidence on whether smoked marijuana has any medicinal benefits - those aren't in."

pcosmar
09-28-2010, 12:20 PM
for the amount of crimes this guy has overseen, and vicariously has executed against peaceful, natural law abiding citizens, he should be imprisoned or hanged by the neck until dead.

"Sir, I don't disagree on any particular point."
Zoe

:mad:

torchbearer
09-28-2010, 05:01 PM
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