Chokshi Niraj,”Obama on marijuana legalization: \u2018My suspicion is that you\u2019re gonna see other states start looking at this\u2019”GovBeat.Washingtonpost.com. January 22, 2015 July 30, 2015<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/govbeat\/wp\/2015\/01\/22\/obama-on-marijuana-legalization-my-suspicion-is-that-youre-gonna-see-other-states-start-looking-at-this\/<\/a><\/p>\n On January 22, 2015, Three youtube stars got the chance of a life time to interview our president Barack Obama. The interview mainly revolved around marijuana and the policies that talk about the legalization of it. One of the three interviewers is Hank Green, a popular youtube star that has around 2.5 million subscribers. The other two youtube stars are Bethany Mota and Glozell Green, Glozell has around 3.8 million subscribers while Bethany has over a whopping 9.1 million subscribers. these youtube stars have a lot of popularity which means that a lot of people will be listening to what is being said in this interview.<\/p>\n The interview starts off with President Obama answering Hank Green’s question saying “What you\u2019re seeing now is Colorado, Washington through state referenda, they\u2019re experimenting with legal marijuana.” The legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington state are very much the guinea pig in this situation, other states want to find out what marijuana can bring to the table when it is legalized. The experiment right now is actually going very well with both Colorado and Washington state having a boost in their economy with the sales of marijuana. With the experiment going so well Obama could only predict “My suspicion is that you\u2019re gonna see other states start looking at this.\u201d Other states will start taking a look into the legalization of weed for the benefits they have happened to produce.<\/p>\n The author of this post then goes on to what else Obama has to say about \u00a0many different issues that were related to federal application of drug policy. \u00a0Chokshi then says about Obama “He said that he will continue to have his administration review treatment of nonviolent drug offenders, and said drug policy with regard to marijuana should be treated more as a public health issue than a criminal one. He also voiced concern with the racially unequal application of marijuana laws and noted bipartisan support on the issue.” Now that Obama is trying to do something about the countless number of inmates that are in prison for such a small non-violent crime of possession, prisons will be less over encumbered with the amount of prisoners. Which will save millions in tax payers money that could help the economy in other ways. Obama wants to decriminalize marijuana or at least change the law to where it won’t be seen as a criminal problem but more as a public health problem.<\/p>\n With the use of marijuana becoming more wide spread we as a country need to make changes for it, not only are we wasting our tax payer’s dollars we are also wasting peoples valuable time being in jail for this non-violent crime. Now that they have been in prison it puts a long lasting effect on them not just mentally but also financially, having a criminal record prevents them from taking out loans. This article has really broaden my view on marijuana and I believe that it can broaden my classmates view on the legalization of weed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chokshi Niraj,”Obama on marijuana legalization: \u2018My suspicion is that you\u2019re gonna see other states start looking at this\u2019”GovBeat.Washingtonpost.com. January 22, 2015 July 30, 2015 http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/govbeat\/wp\/2015\/01\/22\/obama-on-marijuana-legalization-my-suspicion-is-that-youre-gonna-see-other-states-start-looking-at-this\/ On January 22, 2015, Three youtube stars got the chance of a life time to … Continue reading