Obama Drug Czar and Bill Bennett defend Marijuana Prohibition on CNN

I just posted this clip in the Political Videos section where Wolf Blitzer and discussing Obama's new "change of direction" on the War on Drugs. Which isn't so much a change in policy as it is a change in wording of the SAME policy.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x467489">Here

I don't get how people can repeat the same myths with no evidence to support a damn thing they're saying! It's sheer lunacy at this point that prohibition is still defended when the evidence to the contrary is so damning and so lopsided it's not even funny anymore. I'm wondering who's interests the drug czar is defending when he says legalization is a "non-starter?" Maybe America's prison industry? Big Pharma? The CIA? The DEA? All of the above?

I remember him when he was Police Chief in Pt. St. Lucie, Florida. He was a moderate and said some very encouraging things about bringing "rationality" to the WOD.

When he went to Seattle as Police Chief, he was still moderate.. but since he has joined the Obama Administration... he has gone hardcore Right-Wing WOD. WTF happened?

Was it the liquor lobby? Big Tobacco? For-profit prisons? The Goldman-Sachs boys want to figure out a way to corner the market before they legalize it?

:shrug:

Change might be more than a dime's worth of difference but so far it ain't worth a quarter.

No Change Here!

as opposed to what we've had before.

...then somebody pass me the fucking bong!

:silly: Seriously, why is this guy, who's a hypocrite extraordinaire still gleaning media attention? Oh! That's right - because the M$M outlets are all chock full of corporate whores. (No disrespect to sex workers).

Here ya go! :smoke:

Instead of a political hack and a law enforcement officer??

The best thing they could do for the US at this time would be to legalize and tax pot.

Think of how much money is spent on fighting weed and imprisoning.

How about getting brave putting a federal tax on weed and using it to keep SS solvent instead of having some hacks decide to cut it.

they can't outlaw long hair. So they just outlaw the common denominator.

That's no cigarette Barack.

I haven't seen that picture since I was trolling around at freerepublic. Seriously.

No. I'm not accusing you of being a freeper.

I was about to see this and they took to long to show it so I missed it..