The Numbers

A group presenting the view of 37% of Americans keeps shoving a simple question in front of the administration. The administration keeps giving a simple answer. This doesn't seem like much of a problem, and the discussion it is prompting looks like a good one to have. This is exactly the sort of question that these non-traditional, chaotic online 'polls' are valuable for bringing up.

I am sad that Obama has trashed this country to our friends over seas. They think Obama is a loser

The Government doesn't want mind expanding substances legal. They would rather keep their citizens dumb.

Tax pot and lead us out of this recession. Maybe a nation of pot smokers would not want to start wars with other countries.

Pot will not be legal because major tobacco and pharmaceutical companies can't compete with a natural substance with no side effects.

I think we need to include help for anyone that is so crazy,bored enough to look for places to bash someone that has not had a chance to fix 8 years of crap!!!!!!!!!

The point it not to have a nation of whacked out smokers. Legalization would release people who are serving time. It would lighten the load on the Courts, Police and the jails. It sure seems like that would save taxes since we would no longer need so many new prisons.

If D.A.R.E. didn't have a voice Obama would have continued his quest to legalize drugs. Obama is a conditional decision maker; none of his decisions are based on our Godly moral convictions, but what makes him Obama the focal point. He is an unqualified, arrogant, stutting self serving man. He is failing and Americans will not have him much longer. The Bible says "Pride goes before the fall" Wow maybe you unbelievers need to get educated from the God of this Nation. This nation has never failed or fallen because of our Great God.

Cec...Hehe.

I am so glad. This would be the only good thing done by Mr. Obama since becoming President. Still I continue
maintaining my "F" vote for his first 100 days.

I can never seem to catch these votes, but I can tell you I would vote YES on the pot. Let me explain. I am not a pot smoker nor a drinker but,I have been married twice. My first husband was a drinker and a pot smoker. When drunk I was his punching bag, black and blue from head to toe at one time or another. When he smoked pot he was so loving not a mean bone in his body.
My second husband has cost us $50,000 for DUI's. When he smoked pot he to was gentle. He to is mean when he drinks, but does not hit. Then our government puts a high tax on cigarettes? Put it on the alcohol. Wonder if they ever did a study on what their precious BOOZE cost this country. Tax the pot and make it legal I guarantee their will be a drop in crime both public and private.

Just imagine less domestic violence less crime less disorderly conduct. They say it's because of the cost of health. Well over 48,000 die in fatal accidents per year put a price tag on that! Pay off the national TAX pot and Alcohol.

Ellen,
What a story! I can not imagine the hell your were put through, and I read the truth in your words. Alcohol kills. No debate, and no one can question that...as does ciggs. Especially the thousands of creepy drugs put in cigs.I battle the tobacco addiction every day. Now that they cost over $5 a pack, bye bye smoking. I know exactly what happens when a person gets high daily, and the same for being drunk. Give the people the responsibility to moderate their choices. If one can purchase legally a fifth of 100 proof booze, and fall over dead, or kill innocent people, as you mentioned, I see no reason, NONE that pot equals jail time, but let's drink all night long...smoke tobacco, too!! See the reason...it's ALL designed to create zillions of dollars for Doctors, Hospitals, Local Municipalities, Lawyers, etc. it makes me sick. We the people. Remember that?? Come on America...STAND UP for WE THE PEOPLE!! Change MUST happen.

CBS Poll = Complete BullS Poll

1142 adults nationwide does not represent 80 million Americans. It's no wonder that CBS has been losing viewer ship for many years they seem to have remained in an era of Harry Anslinger and box car racing wow! Hey here's a suggestion try reinventing CBS into the 21century then maybe you won't see a steady trend of reverse revenue streams.

If they did make it legal. They would probably tax the hell out of it anyway. I retired from the Navy and I can't afford cigarettes and I can't get a appointment at my local VA Doctor to get some nicotine gum to help me out. Read I only have a 3% chance to quit without some help. Cigarettes.

I don't smoke Pot, and still I think it should be legal, think about it. People pay 10 for a "dime" bag, thats less then it would take make a whole pack of Pot Cigs... To make 20 pot cigs it would cost a person about 50 on the street, Make it legal, tax it and grow it. Not only are you lifting out Nation out of the money problems, but you are putting new jobs out there. Really if people wanna smoke weed now they do... It doesn't matter if its legal or not they do. And the whole country knows they do. So why not make money, and jobs from something that is gonna be done anyhow

I resent being portrayed as a drug user. I do not use recreational drugs or misuse/abuse prescription drugs. I don't believe your characterization applies to the late William F. Buckley or Milton Friedman either. I do not support legalizing marijuana, per se. I oppose prohibition. I oppose the waste of resources on ineffective policies especially when they promote violence, organized crime, and the imprisonment of millions of Americans for menial transgressions. These prohibitions, also, hinder effective programs that could have positive effects with the problem of drug misuse and abuse. It is STUPIDITY to keep policies that have so demonstratively failed.

Funny, evaluation studies say D.A.R.E was ineffective.

The sad thing is that if the marijuana question had NOT surfaced, those "Open For Questions" sessions would be hailed as a 'great success', and not some 'hijacked fluke.' When is Obama and the nation going to realize that support for legalization IS large and widespread? When are they going to WAKE UP?

I don't like pot, and I find the odor repusling when someone withing 100 feet lights up--yes you really can smell it at least that far away... But I find the name of this blog very confusing "Pot smokers vs. President Obama..." You see Obama and most pot smokers actually have something in common--both Obama and the pot smokers DID INHALE. Yep, that's right. Don't let anyone paint a rosey picture that isn't accurate. He tried it just like anyone other late teenager that went to college. That said it's hypocritical for Obama to oppose the legallization of pot without the same restrictions placed on alcohol. Maybe then our favorite government orginazation could be called BATFEM! Not to hijack the thread, but shouldn't Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms be a store and not government agency? Back to the subject, we're talking about a naturally occuring weed--really does grow wild in many states--that is about a carcinogenic as tobacco and as intoxicating as alcohol. And yes, cops can smell it on people who do it and drive--it's also just as easy to test for as alcohol...

Legalize it. I share the same opinion as those before me. Tax it and sell it. Honestly, no one has the American consumers best interest because everyone (goverment and such) wants to tax us to death to begin with. The only reason why they are going after the tobacoo giants like they have is because they are making so much damn money. They won't go after Alcohol companies because they are all drunks themselves and there is probably a great big kick back somewhere in the picture too. They don't give a hoot what happens to us they just want our money. When they can figure out a good way to tax it and get beyond the Christain mind set they will offer it to the American consumer.

currently i only have one choice, i smoke, i choose to smome, if i smoke at all, i must deal with a dealer.....i should have a choice like being able to grow three weed plants a year and not be considered a criminal and then i could stop dealing with the bad guys,and my gov. could have time to really chase the dealers.....

I think what most of what the Generation X group, and there younglings are trying to say is that the War on drug's is a loosing battle. Marijuana does not cause traffic accidents that kill people Alcohol does. For being a mind expanding drug I, don't think so. Marijuana gives off the feeling of feeling alright, your quite alert it also makes you hungry, thristy and you laugh. I can't think of any time that someone actually started a war or a fight being high on marijuana, were as to it's counter part alcohol which has caused a lot of problems for a lot of folks. As the the Drug companies I'd think they like to get in on the high profit of the industry. It's the Alcohol related companies that don't want marijuana legalized. Let's go back to prohabition when alcohol was illegal and marijuana wasn't politicians in washington DC were persueded with there payoff's and alcohol was legalized and marijuana was banded by the US Government, it never was an issue on any ballot to be voted on by the people just like alcohol. I feel that Alcohol kills our children that drive automobiles and it kills there mind's. Where as to marijuana has it's medical benefits for folks that have glucoma that is a vision disorder and marijuana doesn't kill. With the correct regulation placed on marijuana consumption and taxed by the Government, this not only would end an era of war that the Reagan Adminstration placed on the DEA to battle back in the early 1980's it has cost the American taxpayer plenty and there loosing the war. It's ever going support for more coming into our country daily and there seems to be no end to it. If it were legalized this would be a blow to the one's bringing it in and a country with it's consumers would turn a profit the government could not even imagine....