Cannabis

n2doc

(47,953 posts) Mon Apr 25, 2016, 02:22 PM Apr 2016

White House sits down with marijuana law reformers today

Just a few weeks after staging a huge smoke-in at the White House gates, cannabis law reform advocates are getting a meeting with the Obama Administration today.

DC Marijuana Justice (DCMJ) co-founders Adam Eidinger and Nikolas Schiller, who led Washington D.C.’s successful marijuana legalization initiative in 2014, are scheduled to meet with an unnamed policy advisor this morning in the White House, according to DCMJ releases.

The goal: discuss why cannabis does not deserve to be federally designated as among the most dangerous substances on the planet.

That designation has increasingly come under fire by lawmakers, researchers, doctors and the public. About 61 percent of Americans support legalizing marijuana.

“This is an opportunity for the White House to meet with serious and committed cannabis activists and hear our case for why it’s in President Obama’s best interest to work with the attorney general to fully remove cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act, ” stated DCMJ communications director Schiller.

The meeting is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. today and is expected to last 30-45 minutes, and is considered groundbreaking. Members of the group Weed for Warriors, including former Paratrooper and Attorney Brandon Wyatt, will give interviews at a press conference on Pennsylvania Avenue after their meeting.

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White House sits down with marijuana law reformers today (Original Post) n2doc Apr 2016 OP

K&R!!! n/t RKP5637 Apr 2016 #1

Remove it! WDIM Apr 2016 #2

Excellent! felix_numinous Apr 2016 #3

Worst kept secret LiberalLovinLug Apr 2016 #4

That and beltanefauve Apr 2016 #11

I like picturing them passing a joint around the table as they have this discussion! nt logosoco Apr 2016 #5

It Is Past Time colsohlibgal Apr 2016 #6

Cocaine is actually a Schedule 2 drug meow2u3 Apr 2016 #7

Good. I so want this made legal. Half of my family could be jwirr Apr 2016 #8

Full legalization of hemp and marijuana, now! Dont call me Shirley Apr 2016 #9

Ala still has wild hemp all over the place dixiegrrrrl Apr 2016 #12

Same along the Kansas River, we called it ditchweed. Dont call me Shirley Apr 2016 #15

Remove From Scheduling Altogether billhicks76 Apr 2016 #10

any news from the meeting? RussBLib Apr 2016 #13

As with most things Obama, the runup was far better than the actual event n2doc Apr 2016 #14

not on his agenda in his final year in office RussBLib Apr 2016 #16

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)

1. K&R!!! n/t

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 02:27 PM

Apr 2016

WDIM

(1,662 posts)

2. Remove it!

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 02:39 PM

Apr 2016

It should not be scheduled as a drug or regulated by the Federal Government.

felix_numinous

(5,198 posts)

3. Excellent!

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 02:56 PM

Apr 2016

Legalization is sane, WOD has ruined too many lives. Keeping fingers crossed

LiberalLovinLug

(14,175 posts)

4. Worst kept secret

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 03:12 PM

Apr 2016

The only reason it has been on the books for so long as a class 1, or ever, is the lucrative cash flow in fines and repossessions against the "perps", and the manufactured need to build more prisons and hire more cops. That's the bigger problem to solve.

beltanefauve

(1,784 posts)

11. That and

Reply to LiberalLovinLug (Reply #4)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 05:48 PM

Apr 2016

Big Pharma doesn't want it legal either. The number one reason medical cannabis patients give for using cannabis is because they're trying to avoid side effects or opiate addiction.

logosoco

(3,208 posts)

5. I like picturing them passing a joint around the table as they have this discussion! nt

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Mon Apr 25, 2016, 03:12 PM

Apr 2016

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)

6. It Is Past Time

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Mon Apr 25, 2016, 03:14 PM

Apr 2016

It was just ludicrous to put in in there with heroin and cocaine.

meow2u3

(24,764 posts)

7. Cocaine is actually a Schedule 2 drug

Reply to colsohlibgal (Reply #6)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 03:24 PM

Apr 2016

Legal only as a local anesthetic IIRC.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

8. Good. I so want this made legal. Half of my family could be

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 04:28 PM

Apr 2016

treated as criminals when the real problem is medical. And after the admission that the War on Drugs was started for the specific purpose of destroying hippies and minorities this is got to end.

Obama has been pardoning a few people who are in jail. Sir, you could pardon a lot more people just by ending this farce all together.

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)

9. Full legalization of hemp and marijuana, now!

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Mon Apr 25, 2016, 04:53 PM

Apr 2016

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

12. Ala still has wild hemp all over the place

Reply to Dont call me Shirley (Reply #9)

Wed Apr 27, 2016, 09:35 AM

Apr 2016

as a result of hemp being grown and harvested during WW2.
So at one time it was legal, AFTER pot was outlawed.

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)

15. Same along the Kansas River, we called it ditchweed.

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #12)

Wed Apr 27, 2016, 06:15 PM

Apr 2016

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)

10. Remove From Scheduling Altogether

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 05:29 PM

Apr 2016

Remember cocaine is schedule II. Didn't change anything but the ability to research. Has to be schedule IV or none.

RussBLib

(9,025 posts)

13. any news from the meeting?

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Wed Apr 27, 2016, 02:06 PM

Apr 2016

I haven't seen anything in the news about it

n2doc

(47,953 posts)

14. As with most things Obama, the runup was far better than the actual event

Reply to RussBLib (Reply #13)

Wed Apr 27, 2016, 03:24 PM

Apr 2016

About That Bud Summit at the White House
Posted by CN Staff on April 25, 2016 at 15:32:43 PT
By Aaron C. Davis
Source: Washington Post

cannabis Washington, D.C. -- It took a pot-smoking protest outside the White House, but on Monday, advocates for marijuana legalization were set for a historic face-to-face meeting with the Obama administration about easing laws governing the drug. Except, it wasn’t. Leaders of the successful ballot measure fight that legalized marijuana in the nation’s capital said they were granted a White House meeting, but it was with two junior-level staffers in Obama’s Office of National Drug Control Policy.

There was no presidential entourage, no promises of more meetings to come. In fact, there was no visit to the White House proper, but a mostly empty conference room in an adjacent building.

“They didn’t say a lot, they took notes, maybe four pages worth,” said Adam Eidinger, the face of the D.C. marijuana movement, who dressed up for the visit in a black suit with a black-and-green marijuana leaf tie. “We asked questions, but they didn’t answer. .?.?. They nodded a lot. I think they understood us.”

President Obama said in January that reforming marijuana laws is not on his agenda in his final year in office.

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http://cannabisnews.com/news/28/thread28829.shtml

RussBLib

(9,025 posts)

16. not on his agenda in his final year in office

Reply to n2doc (Reply #14)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 05:49 PM

Apr 2016

Thanks, Obama! And those thousands of people in jail on weed charges can just suck it.

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