“I would change the classifications to a equivalent of alcohol.”
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Yes I would have the FDA do this re-classification as well, however just ordering the FDA to do that would be a bit abusive no? He’s at least have to have them jimmy up a study, or stop suppressing existing ones that don’t show the need for class III ( I think it is) classification. Course then the dipchits in congress could just threaten funding unless it remains class III. So I guess ultimately the end run is just kill off prosecutions for a couple years and maybe get the breathing space to address it properly later. Now that’s probably not what bambi is thinking (he’s just trying to buy good will), but that might be what I’d be thinking if him and focused on bigger battles atm.

I am split.

A) If there is a law on the books then it needs to be enforced with equal volition to all other laws. Otherwise a move should be made to repeal it. But it is not the President’s choice to pick and choose the laws that he directs to enforce. Taken to its ends that leads to Monarchy.
B) Regardless of my view on A, the war on drugs was lost two decades ago. It is senseless to continue to combat it. I would change the classifications to a equivalent of alcohol. Then provide laws for family intervention measures for addiction. That’s where the rubber meets the road on these issues anyway.

“WASHINGTON () – Federal drug agents won’t pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued Monday by the Obama administration.

Two Justice Department officials described the new policy to The Associated Press, saying prosecutors will be told it is not a good use of their time to arrest people who use or provide medical marijuana in strict compliance with state law.

The guidelines to be issued by the department do, however, make it clear that agents will go after people whose marijuana distribution goes beyond what is permitted under state law or use medical marijuana as a cover for other crimes, the officials said.
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Not I expect many to agree with me on this, but never let it be said I didn’t approve of at least one move by this president. lol.

http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/10/jeanette-pryor-everything-i-need-to.html

I am with her, it is Sarah or bust for me….no more of these NE educated beltway approved arrogant dudes for me.

There has only been one good president in my lifetime and guess where he got his degree? Eureka College. Nope, it aint Ivy League and he wasnt a lawyer.

She evidently seems to have not much of a problem with the Federal Government dictating you BUY private health insurance as a condition of LIVING in the US! This is clearly unconstitutional and a HUGE ceding of power to the state!

I could give a rats tail if the “fines” are enough to force all the Youts to buy health insurance so the scheme is “workable” – thats beside the point.

Plus, you are a fool if you think any scheme that relies on government force in place of free market principle would EVER be workable!

And of course its beyond naive to acknowlede “good intentions” by those pimping this change, we know full and well its designed to be unworkable by the left as their state goal for the outset of the so-called “reform” was to force a single-payer system on the country in 5 to 10 years!

In light of the PWC report, lets not forget that for months on end the Health Insurance lobby was colluding with the enemy in the WH to take away our liberties and advocated the use of FORCE to make us buy there product.

I care about having a truly free market in health care and health insurance, not simply about helping the Insurance companies get fines up enough in an already Unconstitutional law to keep them profitable.

Until they renounce the Individual Mandate provision, they are not to be trusted any more then Reid, Pelosi, etc as this all could be nothing but political theater to throw us off track.

A government takeover is still result of a plan without a government option entitlement – we need to keep the focus on the Individual Mandate and insist that the Health Insurance lobby also drop this requirement a condition for our support.

Yes, I understand that private Health Insurance is threatened without the Individual Mandate because of the “preexsisting condition” and “community rating” mandates. However, that is their own lobbiests putting them into that box with backdoor deals with a dishonest WH (it was always the lefts intent to destroy Private Health Insurance, any fool could see thatt). We are obligated to fight for our Individual Liberties and the concept of a Free Market/Private Health Insurance. However, we are under NO obligation to defend the creation of a quasi-government monopoly under the guise of supposedly private Health Insurance.

Isnt this the kind of government/business/union corruption we are all enraged about?

Here is a great NRO blog that sums up the situation:

“AHIP/PriceWaterhouse Blowback? [John R. Graham]

Full disclosure (in the spirit of James C. Capretta): I don’t do consulting work for private health insurers, and I doubt they’d have me. I share Benjamin Zycher’s frustration with the various corporate interests, including AHIP (the health-insurers’ trade association), which have managed to get the enemy (government) “exactly where they want us,” with their eager appeasement of the ruling faction.

All intellectual capitalists since Adam Smith have known that we cannot rely on business to carry our philosophical water for us, but even I’m amazed that AHIP has waited so long to release a report (so ably summarized by Mr. Capretta), that describes how the Baucus memorandum (it’s not a “bill”) will destroy Americans’ access to private health care. Indeed, they waited so long that the PriceWaterhouseCoopers report has revived the so-called “public option.”

The health insurers have become so committed to the idea of the federal government ordering people to buy health insurance, that the media and most laypeople are convinced that the “public option” is the only way to prevent insurers from gouging beneficiaries.

The government is not going to change tack as long as the corporate interests are encouraging it to assume greater power over Americans’ access to medical services. Instead, it’s time for AHIP to change tack, abandon the ill-founded notion of mandatory health insurance, and adopt a policy advocating individual choice and responsibility.”

I would make too much of this supposed “treachery” the health insurance lobby and the various Obama/Democrats threats on anti-trust etc. I think this all more “political theater” for the masses….

Until such time as the Health Insruance lobby drops their call for the Unconstitutional Individual Mandate, they only have themselves to blame for cutting deals with devils….

I think this is all just show to keep the far left appeased that they are “fighting” evil big health insurance and will have a “fall guy” to blame when the government option is dropped as negotiated….

It also keeps Republican and Conservatives tied to unconditionally supporting the health insurance lobby – which is not good politically nor something we should do until they renounce the WHOLE backroom deal and OPPOSE THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE!

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Alpha Papa) – Minister Louis Farrakhan on Sunday urged his followers not to become complacent by President Barack Obama’s election and to work to repair communities.

The 76-year-old Nation of Islam leader said in a speech commemorating the 14th anniversary of the Million Man March that people shouldn’t become pacified by the election of the first black president.

More like the “thousands man march” you know using there own standards.