{"id":68162,"date":"2011-10-19T16:01:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T20:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/68162\/green-elephant-room\/"},"modified":"2011-10-19T16:01:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T20:01:47","slug":"green-elephant-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/68162\/green-elephant-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The green elephant in the room."},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you who haven’t seen it, the Obama administration has set up a place on the official White House website for people to sign petitions and supposedly get their concerns addressed by the administration.\u00a0 Any petition that receives enough signatures is supposed to go before a committee to see about putting the will of the people into action.<\/font><\/p>\n

I spent the other day digging through all of the open petitions on the White House petition list.\u00a0\u00a0 Out of all of the open petitions on the site, the Legalize And Regulate Marijuana In A Manner Similar To Alcohol<\/a> petition has the most signatures.\u00a0 Right now it’s sitting at 62,000 signatures where most of the other successful petitions are at 5,000-10,000 signatures.<\/font><\/p>\n

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So what does it say when a marijuana legalization petition (located on the White House’s site) is the most publicly endorsed petition on the entire site?\u00a0 Well, it might not mean much considering it’s just a petition on the internet.\u00a0 But then there’s the matter of the recent Gallup poll<\/a> that shows 50% of Americans are in favor of marijuana legalization while 46% are against it.<\/font><\/p>\n

Here’s a handy chart from the poll that shows how attitudes toward legalization have been trending:
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To put it all into perspective here’s one dandy of a news commentary on the whole issue:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Summary for Mango<\/em>:\u00a0 Obama’s administration continues to hold marijuana as a class 1 drug, equating it with heroin.\u00a0 Meanwhile Obama and other presidents smoked pot in the past and many of our politicians in Washington gets high all the time on alcohol which is much more dangerous and harmful than marijuana.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

So, do you think this will slow the DEA’s current war on medical marijuana dispensaries<\/a>?\u00a0 Does anyone else remember Obama promising to leave dispensaries alone?<\/font><\/p>\n

My guess is that big pharma has our government on the leash pending the release of their new patented Marinol derivatives.\u00a0 If the populace can medicate themselves, they won’t be forced to shovel money into the pockets of pharmaceutical companies.<\/font><\/p>\n

Will the will of the people respected?\u00a0 I guess we’ll see what the White House does with this petition and if Obama ever decides to keep his promise regarding dispensaries.<\/font><\/p>\n

In the meantime, us sick folks will continue to pay through the nose for poison<\/a>.
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