Madeline Martinez, executive director of the Oregon chapter of NORML
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President Obama will pardon the national turkey on Wednesday.
If the President has the power to pardon a turkey, certainly he has the power to pardon marijuana offenders. Every President issues Presidential pardons before leaving office. If we have enough names we will send a message loudly and clearly to our elected officials. We want to End The Marijuana Prohibition Now.
Help make it a Happy Thanksgiving for the offenders and for their families. President Obama can sit down to Thanksgiving dinner with the knowledge that he has saved the government untold millions of dollars while at the same time ending so many of those marijuana related Mexican cartel assassinations. Patients with debilitating diseases can have the opportunity to try marijuana as a treatment if their doctor recommends it. Your loved ones will not have to continue suffering if marijuana is an option that will help them.
In the photo above: Madeline Martinez, executive director of the Oregon chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML, smells marijuana buds at the Cannabis Cafe Tuesday Nov. 17, 2009, in Portland, Ore. The patrons of the Cannabis Cafe are people with Oregon medical marijuana cards. The Cannabis Cafe is the latest step forward for medical marijuana patients in Oregon, where voters authorized its use in 1998.
Comments
Bring a dose of reason back to the nation's drug policies. Prohibition is (once again) a failure!
Please do it so the rest of the world won't have to grow a pair to de-regulate a natural plant.
For the United States of America, save this country!!!
do it barack
It is very simple really. Just repeal the prohibition of marijuana in an ACT! One sheet of paper, one signature from the President and the marijuana problem in the United States goes away. It is that simple.
Phil - Great idea. I can see it now. The cameras are rolling. There they are on Thanksgiving morning. Barack, Michelle and the two little girls and the doggie all cozied up by the fireplace in their bathrobes. (For days afterward the media will be commenting on the designer Michelle chose for her multi-colored bathrobe and slippers.)
One little girl is cuddled under each of the President's arms. They are on the couch. The First Lady is sitting in an overstuffed arm chair looking adoringly at her family.
"This is the right thing to do for the country, especially in these trying times," she says. "Medical marijuana helped your grandma and it should be available for anyone who needs it. And just think what the American people can do with the resources we will be saving by ending the marijuana prohibition."
The four of them drift out of their seats and walk arm in arm to the breakfast table for their Thanksgiving scrambled eggs and sausage....doggie barks.
I'm so tired of all the lies associated with greenery. Not everyone smokes pot all day and acts like cheech and chong, in fact I don't know of anyone who acts like that. Not to mention that the D.A.R.E. program ignores educating our children about hard drugs that ruin lives every day and instead lie to them saying pot is deadly. Pot is deadly? How can we allow our children to be lied to! Its like allowing creationism or intelligent design into the classroom. END PROHIBITION! Stop punishing happy, healthy familys for the use of marijuana, its better than alcohol!
That's a great idea!
Dear President Obama and US citizens,
How do think people in other nations feel about you, knowing they might be severely punished for the slightest hint of a cannabis infraction while everyone knows it’s really quasi-legal for you in America? You have to wave a really big, red flag to get in trouble there.
See 'The Global Cannabis Commission Report – Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate' by The Beckley Foundation, September 2008:
“Primarily under urging from the US (Bruun et al., 1975: 195-203; Edwards, 2005:153), cannabis was included in the strictest prohibition regime category in the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.” page 88
“So long as cannabis is in Schedule I of the 1961 Convention, each party to the treaty is obliged to keep as “punishable offences” production, trading in or possession of it, “subject to its constitutional limitations”.” page 152
Your policies are not making you popular.
Change the law for everyone, not just the fortunate few in
Obama, be the man we voted into office! Open the prison gates and allow those incarcerated for cannabis to be free. That is a change we can really believe in.
he should really pardon Marc Emery. The whole thing seems silly and all with the way things are going these days.
This is the worst blog crap article I have ever read. I agree with the premise but can we please get some articulate people to write about this? This person can not formulate a sentence or a paragraph coherently. NEEDS WORK!
Are you equating turkeys with teaheads? How DARE you, sir!
"Change" will only come when we stop saying please and start demanding. I.E. stop being sheep and start being American citizens.
Silly people, using a plant for pure enjoyment is tantamount to killing Jesus with a rusty chainsaw.
Cool idea. It's a victim-less crime.
Nice try Turkey
Since Obama has been in power at least cannabis legalisation is looking a lot more likely (at least in some states)
Bush refused to stop the federal busts...
Prohibition is Un-American.
Instead of drunk driving and alcohol-related puking this holiday season, we should embrace the tree.
OMG... What a very good idea!!! Set us free Mr. President!! :)
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