(CA) Drug cops to Obama: Your pot comments were wrong

[Jesus Malverde]

California’s politically influential California Narcotic Officers’ Association has a message for President Obama: Take back your positive comments about legalizing marijuana.

To catch you up, Obama — who has acknowledged his teenage stoner days, if not his membership in the Choom Gang – recently told the New Yorker that “I don’t think (marijuana) is more dangerous than alcohol.”

That was the money quote pulled from a longer, more nuanced take. Nevertheless, to the Leg-a-lize It community, hearing the leader of the free world say that was better than a bag without seeds.

But in a Jan. 30 letter to Obama released Tuesday, Cal Narcs prez Steve Riddle stomped all over that buzz, asking Obama to “retract your comments on marijuana and alcohol. They are being misused by people with their own legalization agenda to somehow make the argument that the legal status of alcohol demands legalization of yet another addictive substance that will inevitably be commercialized and marketed to children.”

Riddle piled a big guilt trip on Obama by dropping a Nelson Mandela reference on him.

Read More: http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2014/02/11/drug-cops-to-obama-your-pot-comments-were-wrong/

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Gotta vote w. the Prez on this one.

>>> “retract your comments on marijuana and alcohol. They are being misused by people with their own legalization agenda to somehow make the argument that the legal status of alcohol demands legalization of yet another addictive substance that will inevitably be commercialized and marketed to children.” >>>

That's a lotta demagogic crap to take for stating the painfully obvious: “I don’t think (marijuana) is more dangerous than alcohol.”

That's putting it mildly.

[TeamPooka]

2. reefer madness!

[Bennyboy]

3. This guy is on his way out..

The old guard is over. The cops that are going to make a difference are the ones that realize the benefit of legalization and work to create a policy that is not about protecting your job.

[Scuba]

4. They'll miss the confiscation money and job security.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. Yup. And they will lie with abandon to protect their gravy train. nt.

[championofreason]

6. Cops vs Science

Who do these cops think they are that they can ask the President to retract an established fact.

[frylock]

7. oh noes! not the childrens!

[tridim]

8. Hey Steve Riddle, run for president, win, and then I'll listen to your opinion.

Until then, fuck off pig.