Obama Blows The Marijuana Question
Billed as an online Town Hall Meeting, President Obama answered questions submitted online. Similar questions received votes and a question that received a lot of votes was about legalizing Marijuana which led President Obama to quip, "I don't know what this says about the online audience. The answer is no, I don't think that is a good strategy to grow the economy". President Obama missed a golden opportunity to modernize America's archaic drug laws. To have a President who has written about his marijuana use and cocaine use, it is an abomination not to want to lead the Nation in a more civilized direction about drug laws and policy. In Congressional Testimony on March 14,1995, David Boaz, Executive Vice President of the Cato Institute revealed some startling statistics, and although over a decade old, these figures are still mind-boggling. In 1995, Mr. Boaz revealed to Congress that drug enforcement efforts in the United States accounted for 15 Billion Dollars i...