There's very little good dub, rap, hip-hop anymore~

One of the most endeeeearing qualities being the propensity of ghetto-ass stoner white-boys to adopt some pseudo-Brooklyn accent and brag about how bad-ass they are~Bleeegh!

>> ^direpickle:

>> ^MrFisk:
>> ^direpickle:
>> ^MrFisk:
The executive branch doesn't write laws, it only enforces them.

And the president is nominally the head of his party and can, to a degree, set the agenda. As president, he could follow through with his promise to not prosecute medical marijuana growers and dispensaries. As president, he could tell the House and Senate Democrats to push for legislation that would reform drug laws. As president, he could tell the FBI to completely ignore nonviolent drug offenders.
Yeah, the president isn't all powerful. He does have a good deal of power, though. How come Bush and Cheney were seen as destroying the country all on their own, but Obama's seen as being completely powerless in the face of a minor Republican majority in one house of Congress?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/our-government/executive-branch

I... I assume you posted that to back up what I said?
"The President can issue executive orders, which direct executive officers or clarify and further existing laws. The President also has unlimited power to extend pardons and clemencies for federal crimes, except in cases of impeachment."
"The DOJ [part of the Executive Branch] is comprised of 40 component organizations, including the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Marshals, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons."
Per Wikipedia, w.r.t. FBI:
"FBI Directors are appointed by the President of the United States. They... serve a term of office of five years... unless they resign or are fired by the President before their term ends."
Democrats.org lists the president as one of the leaders of the party.
In summation, the president is nominally one of the heads of his party and can, to a degree, set the agenda. As president, he could follow through with his promise to not prosecute medical marijuana growers and dispensaries. As president, he could tell the House and Senate Democrats to push for legislation that would reform drug laws. As president, he could tell the FBI to completely ignore nonviolent drug offenders.
Yeah, the president isn't all powerful. He does have a good deal of power, though. Why is he seen as being powerless in the face of a minor Republican majority in one house of Congress?


Technically, the FBI's main concern is terrorism. It's the DEA that has been licking their chops to bust stoners, grow-ops, etc. Them, and state's attorney generals looking for a feather in their cap.
I don't think the President can tell them to ignore laws on the books. However, he does work with Congress to write a budget that funds them: http://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/the-national-drug-control-budget-fy-2013-funding-highlights
And as you can see, the Obama administration continues the same failed policies of his predecessors. So, I'm not say he's powerless; I'm saying he's complicit.

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>> ^my15minutes:

and that's very true as well, gallow.
unfortunately, most people will not listen to someone they don't like.
no matter how accurate or compelling their arguments.
someone who's against pot is more likely to be swayed by Pat Robertson's recent startling admission. or by judges and cops who know the war on drugs is an unwinnable farce that only detracts from their ability to deal with actual crime.>> ^Gallowflak:
But Cheech and Chong? Come on. If the marijuana legalization movement is to be taken as seriously as we need it to be, we're going to need more articulate spokespeople. Preferably ones that don't so completely fit into the stereotype of the stoner.


Yeah, true enough. Damnit.

and that's very true as well, gallow.
unfortunately, most people will not listen to someone they don't like.
no matter how accurate or compelling their arguments.

someone who's against pot is more likely to be swayed by Pat Robertson's recent startling admission. or by judges and cops who know the war on drugs is an unwinnable farce that only detracts from their ability to deal with actual crime.>> ^Gallowflak:

But Cheech and Chong? Come on. If the marijuana legalization movement is to be taken as seriously as we need it to be, we're going to need more articulate spokespeople. Preferably ones that don't so completely fit into the stereotype of the stoner.

Eeeeeehh.

There's no question that it should be legalized. There has never been, as far as I know, any coherent argument for why I should be able to drink myself to death, or to the emergency room for a stomach pump, but not use any of the perfectly healthy, safe, non-addictive and therapeutic substances. The shrooms I'm growing, for instance

And even if there were, it still wouldn't be good enough to justify drug prohibition when the changes people wish to see in society - less drug use and abuse, less drug-related gang violence, less addiction - are clearly more likely to be achieved by legalization and an intelligent, compassionate approach to rehabilitation.

But Cheech and Chong? Come on. If the marijuana legalization movement is to be taken as seriously as we need it to be, we're going to need more articulate spokespeople. Preferably ones that don't so completely fit into the stereotype of the stoner.

This isn't about the people who are all for smoking pot, this is about convincing the ones who are still opposed to it, and gathering enough popular momentum to permanently change drug policy. I don't think it's a good idea for those in opposition to see a couple of iconic potheads who can barely form a coherent sentence as faces of the movement.

Or maybe I should shut my goddamn mouth. Hands.

Yeah, Craig Ferguson is on at the same time as Fallon.

Being a CraigyFerg fan, I was disappointed that Obama didn't go on his show. Then I realized -- he probably doesn't want to reach the stoner audience. Stoners and women of a certain age who are already voting for him.




>> ^legacy0100:

Trying to reach the young voters there eh Mr. Obama? Working hard I see.

Goddamn it I love watching "How it's made" ...Stoner city.

I don't know for certain, but I think this is a result of people replacing 'er' and 'uh' and such with 'like'. It tends to get used in the same places, at natural pauses. It sounds worse perhaps because 'like' is a word, so listeners expect it to mean something when its used, whereas nonverbal pausing just sounds like a pause.

>> ^ulysses1904:

I can't stand the overuse of the word "like" either, it drives me nuts. There was a time when you had to be a serious stoner to speak with such a lack of articulation and confidence. Now I hear many adults using it almost as a punctuation mark in every sentence. Not just to indicate that somebody said something "they were like, okay" but as a preface to any noun or adjective, "we had to wait like, 5 minutes". "I'm going over there like, Thursday". "I think she was like, middle-eastern or something". "I just bought like, a Chevy Cobalt". New hires show up at our company with their 4-year degrees, talking like the teens at the mall.

I can't stand the overuse of the word "like" either, it drives me nuts. There was a time when you had to be a serious stoner to speak with such a lack of articulation and confidence. Now I hear many adults using it almost as a punctuation mark in every sentence. Not just to indicate that somebody said something "they were like, okay" but as a preface to any noun or adjective, "we had to wait like, 5 minutes". "I'm going over there like, Thursday". "I think she was like, middle-eastern or something". "I just bought like, a Chevy Cobalt". New hires show up at our company with their 4-year degrees, talking like the teens at the mall.

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>> ^deathcow:

Wow that was a beauty eh? He shoulda told the driver to Take Off!


Geeze, you knob! Crack two, eh?

>> ^Xaielao:

Me thinks that bear has been munching on the pot planets


There are whole planets made of pot? What galaxy?