Obama Oakland visit draws protests
Source: SF Chronicle
Oakland may be a proven bastion of support for President Obama, but his planned visit to the politically charged city Monday is expected to lead to the first major downtown protests in months.
Medical marijuana advocates are staging what will likely be the biggest rally as they urge Obama to halt a Justice Department crackdown on dispensaries. Antiwar activists are coming, too, lending energy to the barrage of criticism that Obama has been taking from the activist left.
If the president wanted this kind of attention, he picked the right destination.
Among East Bay stops on Monday, Obama is set to appear at a fundraiser that starts at 4:30 p.m. at the Fox Theater, which sits on the edge of Oaksterdam, Oakland's unofficial cannabis district, on a block where Occupy activists have clashed with police.
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NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)Response to NYC Liberal (Reply #1)
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bluedigger
(17,087 posts)may3rd
(593 posts)If they tax the shit out of the recreational use it will provide
Sirveri
(4,517 posts)Enough to be worthwhile, but not enough to close the hole.
Flatulo
(5,005 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)Otherwise, he will look the fool, walking into protests by his base.
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)I don't think it will be until the second term, if that happens. But he will eventually imo. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)It's the right thing to do.
may3rd
(593 posts)they give a lot to those who are cradle to grave recipients
and the rethugs who say they will vote it down while on the campaign trail themselves will have to tread softly
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)My VA Doc perscribes one but suggests the other would be better.
That's a problem when you wake up 3 hours before the alarm and then start stressing out over unemployment running out, no prospects and not able to pay the rent. Can't take another Ambien.
That's where a little hit works wonders.
Guns and ammo, legal.
Marijuana a schedule 1 drug? And they wonder why we have no respect for the sellouts like our Prez.
CHANGE!!!
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Pot makes me paranoid. If I could just get over that, I'd be scoring a bag once a month, maybe week. ha ha
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)People on the left can be so addicted to hearing their own voices, that they screw themselves over and over. I bet Romney is going to be HUGE fan of medical marijuana. You know.. the way that George W Bush was EXACTLY the same as Al Gore.
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)Is that too nuanced for you?
Sirveri
(4,517 posts)Obama has done a lot of good things, but lets pull the blinders off for a moment and call it like it is. Government is less transparent, more drone strikes, expansion of assassinations, Guantanamo is still open for business, Bush tax cuts are still in place, Healthcare reform was basically what the Repukes offered Clinton, closed more dispensaries than Bush. If protests drag him further to the left then that's a good thing in my book.
6502
(249 posts)I found two websites that say they report the price of marijuana in the US, but I am not sure if the prices are correct.
(1) http://www.priceofweed.com/
(2) http://www.narcoticnews.com/Marijuana-Prices-in-the-U.S.A.php
Which one best represents the price of weed in the US?
Moltisanti
(33 posts)and what % just want to get high?? It started out for Glaucoma and to ease HIV/Cancer
symptoms but now you can get it for almost any reason... I don't care
who smokes it, I'm just curious.
FlaGranny
(8,361 posts)should be legalized, but I can't, for the life of me, figure out why people like to get high. It's a very disconnected, weird, and unpleasant experience for me. In the past, I've had morphine a few times for pain, tried a couple of joints (ugh), and drank some booze. I've settled on a drink, sometimes 2, once in a while to be sociable. I don't enjoy feeling "high" or "spaced out."
Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)and pain has a lot of causes
Sirveri
(4,517 posts)Oh noes, someone is getting high and bothering nobody. How horrible.
Legalize it all.