When medical experts say that our "war on drugs" has been a disaster and has increased, rather than decreased, disease and violence, it is time for the government to abolish these cruel and counter-productive laws.

I so hope common sense will prevail but fear nothing will be done till well after the election

UNLES
Obama has a giant Fuck it plan as he leaves office.

...even of residue of cocaine or heroin.

Our country labels people felons for personal use.

but I just would rather not spend money on prisons except for criminals we have to isolate. I wish for certain people we could have an isolated society not a prison (pediphiles, and other people who are dangerous just to children and animals).

I just get more and more pissed thinking about Obama refusing to reclassify weed.

Brookings Bombshell: America Needs High-Quality Marijuana Medications
John Hudak, a researcher with the nonpartisan Brookings Institution think tank, concluded in a March 22 study that the White House and Congress must act immediately to save American lives by passing the CARERS act, a marijuana liberalization law that would lift barriers to medical marijuana research, protect doctors and patients, and ultimately re-schedule marijuana so that therapeutic formulations can be made available in all 50 states and territories.

Children are dying due to the absence of safe, tested, uniform pot products, Hudak writes in “The Medical Marijuana Mess — A prescription for fixing a broken policy. Parents are becoming refugees in their own country — moving thousands of miles to experiment with non-standardized marijuana regimens far from their home states. For those that can’t move, an unregulated, online industry of extract sellers like Morgue Juice has popped up promising cure-alls to meet vast demand.

Hudak essentially says this is all unconscionable and that we need to immediately re-schedule marijuana, and de-schedule CBD as drugs. The medical marijuana movement began far away from such mainstream institutions like Brookings, in places like Oakland, which helped pass Proposition 215 in 1996 and made marijuana crime its lowest police enforcement priority under Measure Z. Oakland has among the most robust medical cannabis industries in the world, with lab-testing and third party-certified products widely available on shelves and for delivery. In other parts of California, however, access to advanced medical cannabis formulas is as limited as Virginia, where medical pot is still banned.