Obama administration says medical marijuana users will be left alone

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/AP-Newsbreak-New-medical-apf-4109207182.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode=

Well here's a great step and above Bush.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Could we finally be moving towards a long overdue era of legalized pot?  This would save the government massive amounts of time and money and perhaps even increase tax revenues.  Drug related violence and crime would plummet in both the US and Mexico.  Jails would have room for actual dangerous criminals.  It actually might stimulate the economy too.  Could the
"Great Recession," like the Great Depression before it, usher in a new anti-prohibition movement?

Not really. Pot money doesn't go to criminals, just old hippies who grow it in their basements. The reason it should be legalized is it is a completely harmless drug.

BTW I once heard in Mankato from one of my buddies about this cop his brother knows. He never arrests people for pot, he just confiscates. Then he sells the pot he confiscates. I already like this guy a lot more than most cops.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I really really really hope this doesn't become a political football.  GOP isn't that cruel, is it?  (rhetorical)

This isn't a winning issue to oppose. The Republicans don't have anything to gain.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I really really really hope this doesn't become a political football.  GOP isn't that cruel, is it?  (rhetorical)

This isn't a winning issue to oppose. The Republicans don't have anything to gain.

I mean, would a GOP-DEA and Justice Department start throwing cancer patients in jail again?  assuming that Obama is actually true to his word.

Well now that Obama's people run the Justice Department that means that they wouldn't be charged.