Mitt's got standards, unlike Obama?? Mitt's going to go easy on anything pot related?

On and on the stupidity goes. Pardon my ignorance, is the author of this pap a DU golden calf or something?

Julie

a bunch of greedy fucking assholes, economic conservatives (likely making over $250,000 per year), using any issue they can to justify voting for Romney.

From one comment:

"As a libertarian I don't expect Mitt to be much better on the WOD or civil liberties generally, but... THE ECONOMY."

Has nothing to do with weed.

Actually, they're stupid greedy fucking assholes.

papping random gibberish. Writer must have been taking too much of their own stuff.

Obama isn't perfect on social issues, but he's better than the alternative.

As with the Supreme Court, Obama marched to the right, but Romney would sprint. The War on Drugs would go nuclear.

Neither is a good choice, but Obama is the lesser evil. Re-elect him, and pressure for a change in policy.

this makes him a low information voter. That statement doesn't make sense for anyone that knows anything about Romney. No one knows Romney's "positions".

He is upset with Obama for sacrificing people to get re-elected. Is there anything Romney wouldn't sacrifice to get re-elected? Mitt even threw his wife's horse under the bus!

While he might have some funny observations on business/corporate culture, his personal politics are quite confusing. Essentially, he's a libertarian who hates corporations with a dose of misogyny. While his comic is usually pretty good, he's in love with the sound of his own voice and fills the net with his ramblings. His opinions are best ignored.

Today's Dilbert:

These marijuana "tokers" are dangerous to society. I'm proud that our President can see beyond his own dope-laden past and put these menaces in jail. Ruining their lives is a small price to pay in exchange for a Grand Bargain.

And, after the Grand Bargain is made, three square meals and a roof in jail will sound good to most of us.

I do agree that Obama is less awful than Romney.

Do you agree that Obama is a hypocrite for imprisoning medical marijuana users? What if Obama had been jailed for his own use of pot and cocaine? Would that have been the right thing to do?

"Do you agree that Obama is a hypocrite for imprisoning medical marijuana users? What if Obama had been jailed for his own use of pot and cocaine? Would that have been the right thing to do? "

...not! I'm not a low information voter.

Obama 2012!

you can't count those who were busted growing 1000 plants and evading taxes. just users. the answer would be: very few.

every time someone posts this garbage about Obama being hard on MMJ, citing some case as an example, i have to wonder about the details. what other laws were they breaking? what local official or politician did they cross? who exactly, called in the DEA? most federal busts are the result of local law enforcement asking them to step in. every time a filthy restaurant is shut down, you don't hear "OMG, Obama is anti-FOOD! he doesn't want us to eat!" but anytime one of the thousands of dispensaries is shuttered for not following even their local regulations, it's all Obama's fault. he hates MMJ users.

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The lives of many of these folks are fucked.

Not able to find a breakout of how many are medical marijuana users, or how many are incarcerated for simple possession only.

you know folks will think you're being serious, you forgot the whatchamacallit thingy

i clearly asked about Federal arrests for possession.

the Federal gov't is simply not that interested in arresting simple users.

it's quite perplexing why Obama himself would be going after pot smokers in your area, yet he allows hundreds of dispensaries and warehouse grows to continue doing business where i live.

the truth is, most of those arrests are in red states that take a very firm stance against drugs. here in Colorado, if the authorities don't like your warehouse grow, they send you a letter telling you to stop before they take action. if your locale supports MMJ, then Obama has been the best President ever for MMJ users. if anything you should be criticizing the President for allowing the MMJ trade to explode in CO, it's surviving because the profit motive is acknowledged in our laws, and the state and local gov'ts get their cut, a pretty large cut. my local independent newspaper publishes how much the city has received in sales tax each month from MMJ sales, and what services those taxes pay for, things like park maintenance which would otherwise have been cut, here in the home of TABOR. in CA, where you have to pretend to be a caregiver and not profit from your business, dispensaries are being shut down. make sure the gov't gets their cut, and you could sell murder from a storefront.

I 'knew' Scott Adams 3rd hand when I worked at Digital Equipment in their software services organization. We had a joint software project going on with (was it PACbell? long time ago), Scott was on the team and Dilbert was just getting going. Our engineers used to supply him with stories that were the basis of many of his cartoons.

I vaguely remember being shocked and disappointed when I first saw his political ramblings. Irrational ramblings is what they are.

I've drafted a response to his post and am bookmarking the link so when I have time I can register and add my reply below:


If your CEO had a legal means to avoid prosecution, it probably wasn’t murder to begin with. And, as you note further on, President Obama hasn’t killed anybody to get re-elected.

However, there are many candidates in the past who have used the judicial system to kill prisoners in order to get elected, on both the Democratic and Republican sides. Furthermore, there is right now a political prisoner who did no wrong and whose life is being ruined thanks to Karl Rove’s machinations.

So in my case, your prediction is wrong.

But he is putting an American citizen in jail for 10 years to life for operating medical marijuana dispensaries in California where it is legal under state law.

My understanding is that the Americans in California were not jailed for operating medical marijuana dispensaries , but were jailed for using the dispensaries as a cover for sales without prescriptions. Now, my understand may be wrong, but if you’re going to make the claim then you need to provide the proof.

Romney is likely to continue the same drug policies as the Obama administration. But he's enough of a chameleon and a pragmatist that one can't be sure….
So while I don't agree with Romney's positions on most topics…

If Romney is such a chameleon that you can’t be sure what his policies will be, how do you know you agree with him on anything?

the President did NOT put someone in jail for the rest of their life.

Does that assbite think that Romney will be PROGRESSIVE on pot laws?? Stunning stupidity. But then again, Dilbert is a fucking 1%er, after all..

ETA: He NEVER HAD Dilbert. Dilbert is a right wing libertarian. Lost is the wrong term. you should change the headline to: Scott Adams, asshole creator of Dilbert endorses Romney.

what makes you think Mitt will live up to his promise? That's why you're a crack head, easy to manipulate.

Libertarians are easy to MANIPULATE because they spend most of their time getting high with their own supply.

Fun stuff!

Julie

And his bank accounts reflected millions of dollars in non state regulated sales.

You run a State regulated marijuana business just know it. The State AND the Feds watch your every move. The Feds tempt your employees to pass over a little bit of plant matter for some easy cash. Then you're in big trouble.

Personally, I wish President Obama would totally decriminalize the plant. Use the existing agriculture laws to regulate sales. This would be the best overall boost for the economy, save huge on Federal funds and free a lot of people.

You can bet on it if Romney gets elected everyone named on those lists in all the States are low hanging fruit targets.

Just more proof that most republicans are too embarrassed to call themselves republicans. They have to find an excuse to excuse their dumb ass republican values.

youth vote. The States have been handling it just fine with decriminalization. The
Feds coming in heavy handed has not been appreciated by many both Dem and moderate
Rep. There are plenty of Rep. Grannies smoking weed or using edibles for their glaucoma,
nausea due to cancer other meds or a range of medical issues.

Besides, President Obama has it bad enough that half the country hates him simply because he's black. He couldn't be the first black president, and the guy who legalized marijuana. White high-moral-ground yuppies the country over woulda crucified him.