White House sits down with marijuana law reformers today

[n2doc]

Just a few weeks after staging a huge smoke-in at the White House gates, cannabis law reform advocates are getting a meeting with the Obama Administration today.

DC Marijuana Justice (DCMJ) co-founders Adam Eidinger and Nikolas Schiller, who led Washington D.C.’s successful marijuana legalization initiative in 2014, are scheduled to meet with an unnamed policy advisor this morning in the White House, according to DCMJ releases.

The goal: discuss why cannabis does not deserve to be federally designated as among the most dangerous substances on the planet.

That designation has increasingly come under fire by lawmakers, researchers, doctors and the public. About 61 percent of Americans support legalizing marijuana.

“This is an opportunity for the White House to meet with serious and committed cannabis activists and hear our case for why it’s in President Obama’s best interest to work with the attorney general to fully remove cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act, ” stated DCMJ communications director Schiller.

The meeting is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. today and is expected to last 30-45 minutes, and is considered groundbreaking. Members of the group Weed for Warriors, including former Paratrooper and Attorney Brandon Wyatt, will give interviews at a press conference on Pennsylvania Avenue after their meeting.

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http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2016/04/25/white-house-sits-down-with-marijuana-law-reformers-today/

[RKP5637]

1. K&R!!! n/t

[WDIM]

2. Remove it!

It should not be scheduled as a drug or regulated by the Federal Government.

[felix_numinous]

3. Excellent!

Legalization is sane, WOD has ruined too many lives. Keeping fingers crossed

[LiberalLovinLug]

4. Worst kept secret

The only reason it has been on the books for so long as a class 1, or ever, is the lucrative cash flow in fines and repossessions against the "perps", and the manufactured need to build more prisons and hire more cops. That's the bigger problem to solve.

[beltanefauve]

11. That and

Big Pharma doesn't want it legal either. The number one reason medical cannabis patients give for using cannabis is because they're trying to avoid side effects or opiate addiction.

[logosoco]

5. I like picturing them passing a joint around the table as they have this discussion! nt

[colsohlibgal]

6. It Is Past Time

It was just ludicrous to put in in there with heroin and cocaine.

[meow2u3]

7. Cocaine is actually a Schedule 2 drug

Legal only as a local anesthetic IIRC.

[jwirr]

8. Good. I so want this made legal. Half of my family could be

treated as criminals when the real problem is medical. And after the admission that the War on Drugs was started for the specific purpose of destroying hippies and minorities this is got to end.

Obama has been pardoning a few people who are in jail. Sir, you could pardon a lot more people just by ending this farce all together.

[Dont call me Shirley]

9. Full legalization of hemp and marijuana, now!

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Ala still has wild hemp all over the place

as a result of hemp being grown and harvested during WW2.
So at one time it was legal, AFTER pot was outlawed.

[Dont call me Shirley]

15. Same along the Kansas River, we called it ditchweed.

[billhicks76]

10. Remove From Scheduling Altogether

Remember cocaine is schedule II. Didn't change anything but the ability to research. Has to be schedule IV or none.

[RussBLib]

13. any news from the meeting?

I haven't seen anything in the news about it

[n2doc]

14. As with most things Obama, the runup was far better than the actual event

About That Bud Summit at the White House
Posted by CN Staff on April 25, 2016 at 15:32:43 PT
By Aaron C. Davis
Source: Washington Post

cannabis Washington, D.C. -- It took a pot-smoking protest outside the White House, but on Monday, advocates for marijuana legalization were set for a historic face-to-face meeting with the Obama administration about easing laws governing the drug. Except, it wasn’t. Leaders of the successful ballot measure fight that legalized marijuana in the nation’s capital said they were granted a White House meeting, but it was with two junior-level staffers in Obama’s Office of National Drug Control Policy.

There was no presidential entourage, no promises of more meetings to come. In fact, there was no visit to the White House proper, but a mostly empty conference room in an adjacent building.

“They didn’t say a lot, they took notes, maybe four pages worth,” said Adam Eidinger, the face of the D.C. marijuana movement, who dressed up for the visit in a black suit with a black-and-green marijuana leaf tie. “We asked questions, but they didn’t answer. . . . They nodded a lot. I think they understood us.”

President Obama said in January that reforming marijuana laws is not on his agenda in his final year in office.

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http://cannabisnews.com/news/28/thread28829.shtml

[RussBLib]

16. not on his agenda in his final year in office

Thanks, Obama! And those thousands of people in jail on weed charges can just suck it.