With all due respect to President Obama, the decision he made on October 18th to "deliver new guidelines on medical marijuana: suppliers and users won't be arrested if they abide by state laws", may have been one of the worse decisions he could have made as a president. By making this move, he is bringing the legalization of marijuana for medical and recreational use one step closer. I just hope one day it doesn't come to down being up the the public's vote, because with the number of people uninformed and addicted to the drug we are doomed to face the legalization of it.
David Murray, the special assistant to the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, put my theory into the perfect statement by stating, "People feel good after they take it, but they don't get better".
I will conclude my posting to this blog to let my fellow students know they put up a good fight, but in the end it comes down to marijuana being an illegal drug for a reason, and I don't see that changing unless something drastically happens in the future.
"Timeline of President Obama's first year.(Politics)(Chronology)." Newsweek. 154. 18 (Nov 2, 2009): 40. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. Century College Library. 8 Feb. 2010 &contentSet=IAC-Documents &type=retrieve &tabID=T003 &prodId=OVRC &docId=A210546702 &source=gale &srcprod=OVRC &userGroupName=mnacenturycl &version=1.0>.
Marshall, Patrick. "Marijuana Laws." CQ Researcher 15.6 (2005): 125-148. CQ Researcher. Web. 8 Feb. 2010. |
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