President Obama Says No to Legalizing Marijuana
March 26th, 2009 by RickDuring a Virtual Town Hall Meeting a much sought after question was finally answered about marijuana legalization. The exact question that was asked was if legalizing marijuana would bring a solution to the failing economy and perhaps influence job creation. The answer of course was no.
It wasn’t the answer itself that was annoying. Despite nearly 3.5 million people being polled online on which questions to address and this question being high on the list, President Obama chuckled and then made a comment that seemed to patronize the online community, the very same online community that took part in the other questions.
As soon as he mentioned legalizing marijuana the audience behind him all laughed. No one in the audience had a disgusted or angry look on their face. Did he think that they were laughing because the question was a ridiculous notion… or do we have some smokers in the audience. Notice when he says no, certain people are still laughing but they aren’t clapping in approval. It’s curious to note as well that President Obama used the phrase “grow the economy,” because that’s exactly the issue.
I don’t know why President Obama thinks this is a laughing matter. Not only did the people online at the Virtual Town Meeting think that it was a legitimate question but other people online felt the same way. In fact a lot of them are regretting for even voting for him. Maybe more people need to contact the White House online and tell them how they feel about the issue and the way that President Obama handled the situation.
He’s been laughing a lot lately while being interviewed. It’s a type of laughter that feels like he’s hiding some big secret that’s in store for this country and it doesn’t matter what ails this nation. Bush did the same thing, but he only smirked like a fool when talking about terrorism and about how the bad guys are going to get us. Well the bad guys have gotten us. They got us alright, they got us in our pockets, where it hurts the most.
The most frustrating thing of it is that President Obama just simply said no, legalizing marijuana would not be a viable solution. He didn’t explain why it would be such a bad idea or why it would never work. All the research behind the plant itself shows that it has medicinal properties but it threatens the pharmaceutical industry.
Using the stalk itself, Hemp can be made. Hemp is a product that threatens numerous industries like the paper, plastic and oil industry. Marijuana has been demonized in this country for those reasons. Henry Ford had built a car completely made from hemp in 1941. It was bought out and destroyed by Rockefeller and associates. Cars like these will never be produced because they will eliminate the fossil fuel industry. They run clean, have no smog check and there’s no oil change. It was also made to run on ethanol made from hemp seed oil. BMW and Mercedes Benz use hemp fibers in the interior plastics of their cars because it is up to 14 times stronger than steel. The car that Ford built was lighter than steel and was 10 times stronger.
All this and more can be obtained from the wonderful marijuana plant. It’s time that the people come before big business. Legalizing marijuana and hemp will bring so much change to this country, the kind of change that President Obama promised to bring. All the change he’s brought so far is the change jingling around in your pocket. And there isn’t much of that either.
