Drugs and money: Obama puts myth over science

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/07/20117176332914104.html


Like his predecessor, Obama ignores expert opinion on the drug war, economics, Gaza and global warming.


In December 2007, officials in the Bush White House refused to open an email from the Environmental Protection Agency that concluded that "greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled". If they didn't open the email, then the facts didn't exist, according to their pseudo-logic - much like a child who thinks that if he closes his eyes, he becomes invisible to whatever scary monsters might be hunting him. There's no similar smoking gun with the Obama Administration - at least not yet - but a strikingly similar denial of scientific knowledge from within the executive branch has just been announced by the Obama Administration.

On Friday, July 8, Obama's Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator, Michele M. Leonhart, decreed in the Federal Register that marijuana "has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States", thus keeping it in the same category as heroin, as it has been since 1970. This despite the fact that the National Cancer Institute, part of the cabinet-level Department of Health and Human Services, cites marijuana's potential helpfulness with nausea, loss of appetite, insomnia and pain.

It's not just the National Cancer Institute, of course. Sixteen states and the District of Columbia have laws saying exactly the opposite - that marijuana does have an accepted medical use, and that doctors are free to prescribe it. There are, in fact, thousands of such prescriptions written every day, no matter how hard Leonhart and Obama try to deny it. Are some of those prescriptions bogus? Undoubtedly. But it's the specific claims of individuals that are questionable, not the underlying medicine.

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"We're trapped in kind of a vicious cycle here," Grant told the Times. "It's always a danger if the government acts on certain kinds of persuasions or beliefs rather than evidence."

-long snip detailing how the truth is suppressed and how Obama has swallowed it, wether he choked while doing it, I don't know-
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the drug Barons are powderful thugs

Never mind that legalizing and taxing pot would turn a pretty big expense in the budget into a source of revenue
at a time when governments at all levels are desperate for funds.

They'd even cut the defense budget before they'd cut the drug war.

When Obama was elected, the time was ripe for him to do the wise, right, intelligent, just and long-overdue thing -- which was to end (or begin to end) the insane Drug War. Never has there been a better opportunity, and never has an opportunity been so cruelly wasted.

A president who values science and logic and freedom would have ended the Drug War long ago.

So it's obvious that Obama does NOT value science or logic or freedom.

Who can support a man like that?