Obama Should Act on Medical Marijuana
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 30th, 2009 5:40 am by HL
Obama Should Act on Medical Marijuana
During the campaign, President Obama said he would stop federal raids of medical marijuana clubs in states (like California) that had passed medical marijuana laws. Yet federal agents raided medical marijuana dispensaries, including the Patient to Patient Collective in South Lake Tahoe, two days after his inauguration. The Tahoe Daily Tribune reported that agents seized between 5 and 10 pounds of marijuana. The Marijuana Policy Project, which wants to legalize marijuana, accused the Drug Enforcement Administration of “defying” Obama’s position on medical marijuana and “called on the president to immediately replace Bush administration holdovers at DEA.
Dancing Among Landmines–The Obama Al-Arabiya Interview
President Barack Obama is being praised for choosing an Arabic TV network for his first formal television interview on the Dubai-based, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya news channel. I think we can all appreciate the thinking behind such bold outreach, given that the media at home has chortled to the world that our new guy’s unusual background, in sort of Zen-fashion, has befuddled the radical Islamic movement. The subtext of our satisfaction has been that Obama–African-American, son of a Muslim father, erstwhile resident of Muslim Indochina, with Hussein as his middle name–makes it far harder for the Arab Islamic world to typecast America unfairly as the Great Satan than would be true in the case of an evangelical, Texas-drawling, hard-core conservative Chief Executive like good ‘ole boy George Bush. True enough, no doubt.
