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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Top 20 for YouTube's "Your Interview With the President" re: prohibition, decriminalization, regulation.

Easily the top 20 most popular questions @ YouTube's Your Interview With The President feature questions re: the War on Some Drugs Users - didn't scroll past that.  Be interesting to see if any kind of straight answer is given, considering that ostensibly it's supposed to be a forum where our officials are responsive to the concerns of "the people."  Past times questions of legalization have been met by joking derision from Obama and his administration.  Doubly vexing given his admitted drug use - in the same vein of the drunk-driving/couldn't handle his liquor/"I love marijuana and cocaine" GWB and "I didn't inhale" Clinton.  I can't imagine Obama thinks his life would've been considerably improved if, as a non violent drug "offender," he'd been incarcerated as a felon.  But then, an issue of both the political class and one as people get older - their past indiscretions are excusable and understandable...  those of others are not.

 The most popular question.

"Good evening Mr. President...  I'm a retired law enforcement officer... the so called 'War on Drugs' has been waged for 40 years at a cost of a trillion dollars and thousands of lives with nothing to show for it but increased supplies, cheaper drugs and a dramatic increase in violence associated with the underworld drug market.  Sir, do you think there will or should come a time for us to discuss the possibility of legalization, regulation and control of all drugs thereby doing away with the violent criminal market as well as a major source of funding for international terrorism?  Thank you so much for your time, Mr. President."

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