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Medical Marijuana Bill On Backburner Despite New Obama Policy

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago

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A bill to legalize medical marijuana that narrowly passed the Illinois Senate in May faces an uncertain future in the General Assembly in spite of wha...

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Obama Won't Support Legalizing Marijuana, Says Drug Czar

Fresno Bee | CRAIG KOHLRUSS / the FRESNO BEE | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

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The federal government is not going to pull back on its efforts to curtail marijuana farming operations, Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House'...

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Ending the War on Drugs: The Moment is Now

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

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Arianna Huffington

When it comes to addressing America's disastrous war on drugs, the Obama administration is saying the right things. But when it comes to putting its rhetoric into action, the administration has faltered.

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Marijuana No Laughing Matter, Mr. President

Norm Stamper | Posted 04.28.2009 | Politics

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Norm Stamper

Our leader doesn't seem to understand that millions of his interlocutor-constituents are actually quite serious about the issue.

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Ryan Grim

Jim Webb: Pot Legalization Could Be Part Of Criminal Justice Overhaul

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Jim Webb, fresh off his passage of an historic expansion of the GI Bill, has found a new issue: the criminal justice system. And when Webb, a Vir...

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Andrew Sullivan: Obama's Pot Answer "Pathetic"

Andrew Sullivan | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics

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The chuckle suggests a man of his generation. The dismissiveness toward the question of ending Prohibition as both a good in itself and a form of tax ...

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Taking the Pro-Pot Position (Because Somebody Has To)

Dan Sweeney | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

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Dan Sweeney

Ganja may cause the giggles, but legalization shouldn't be a laughing matter. And it certainly shouldn't be treated as cavalierly as it has by the current administration.

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Sam Stein

Obama Takes Pot Legalization Question During Townhall (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

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The White House's innovative Open for Questions forum has produced plenty of substantive questions on wonky issues. But roughly midway through, the pr...

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Phelps and Obama -- Leading the Way Towards Legalizing Marijuana

Rob Kall | Posted 03.12.2009 | Living

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Rob Kall

If federal legislation for legalizing marijuana included taxes that would help pay for the bailout or create a million or more jobs, it's hard to imagine Barack-who-inhaled-Obama vetoing the bill.

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Group Pressures Obama To Halt Medical Marijuana Raids

ContraCostaTimes | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

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Drug reform advocates are challenging the Obama Administration to deliver on a campaign promise to halt federal interference with California and other...

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Reverse: Obama Camp Now Says He Opposes Pot Decriminalization

Washington Times | Jen Haberkorn | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama, the senatorial candidate of 2004, might have a bone to pick with Barack Obama, the presidential candidate of 2008. Videotapes of debate...

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Obama: Decriminalize Pot

Washinton Times | Jen Haberkorn | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Last fall during a nationally televised presidential debate, Sen. Barack Obama hesitantly raised his hand and joined with most of his Democratic rival...

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Obama: I Inhaled, "That Was The Point"

NBC | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Obama can't seem to escape the smoke of his youthful indiscretions wafting after him on the campaign trail. Just four days after he told a group of hi...

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